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For someone whose wife was struggling to breathe, and who was arrested on the toilet over a feud with pop star Guy Sebastian, Phillip Hanslow was calm and composed as he faced court for the first time in his life on Thursday - and now he has a surprise offer of help from star lawyer Bryan Wrench.
Hanslow, 66, is accused of stalking and intimidating the musician, and kicking over his fence on their joining Maroubra properties during an incident on January 23, after Sebastian returned from a family holiday to Japan.
The former builder arrived at Waverley Local Court on Thursday morning with his frail wife Carol to find several cameras pointed in his direction. However, the elderly man was unfazed.
He calmly went to the boot of his beat-up ex-military ambulance to collect his wife's wheelchair, before he helped her out of the car, put her oxygen tank in a bag, politely rejected assistance from strangers, and wheeled her inside.
The couple waited to be assigned a courtroom for about an hour. Throughout that time, his wheelchair-bound wife struggled to keep her breathing and heart rate under control.
Mrs Hanslow - who is in and out of hospital frequently with chronic respiratory issues - was repeatedly asked by if she was OK, to which she would reply: 'I will be fine when I get my heart rate down'.
When they finally entered Court 2, an officer said, loudly: 'Whoever is responsible for that beeping, can you turn it off?’
Phillip Hanslow was calm and collected as he wheeled his wife from their 4WD inside Waverley Local Court on Thursday (pictured)
Phillip Hanslow had an altercation with his neighbour Guy Sebastian (pictured with his wife, Jules)
Members of the public gallery had to explain the beeping was coming from Mrs Hanslow's pulse machine.
The court officer apologised, but the elderly woman felt self-conscious and turned the device off.
When his matter was called, Hanslow fronted the magistrate and calmly explained his situation.
'I don't want to enter a plea today because I tried to get Legal Aid to represent me but there was no one available,' he told the magistrate.
He then explained that a proposed two-week adjournment was not sufficient because he has to go to hospital within that time to get a bowel infection removed.
The matter, which lasted less than five minutes, was adjourned to March 9.
'Is that it?' Mrs Hanslow said, when her husband moved to wheel her outside the courtroom.
Hanslow's case captured the attention of celebrity lawyer Bryan Wrench, from Murphy's Lawyers (pictured)
Phillip Hanslow and his wife Carole have since moved out of their Maroubra home (shown on the right of Guy Sebastian's imposing property)
However, his case captured the attention of celebrity lawyer Bryan Wrench, from Murphy's Lawyers, who was in Court 2 for
