The model ex-girlfriend of rock star Daniel Johns breached a restraining order by going to her latest lover’s home to tell him she was pregnant with his child.
Estelita Huijer had not been allowed to go within 50m of restaurateur Andrew Becher since August last year when police took out an apprehended violence order against her on his behalf.
The fashion designer dated Johns for about four years from 2013 after the Silverchair frontman had quit the chart-topping band to concentrate on his solo career.
Huijer, who describes herself as ‘Dutch-Filipino-Australian’, was in a four-year ‘on-and-off intimate relationship’ with Becher which ended sometime in 2024.
Becher, who owns popular eateries Franca, Parlar and Armorica in Sydney’s inner-east, has been a star on the Sydney hospitality scene for more than a decade.
His celebrated Double Bay restaurant and bar Pelicano was forced to shut in 2016 but was relaunched at Potts Point on the site of the old Hugo’s Lounge late last year.
The end of 34-year-old Huijer’s relationship with Becher left her ‘navigating a complex and often unsafe dynamic’ while she carried his child, a court was told.
Huijer went to Becher’s unit in Wolseley Road, Point Piper, about 2am on December 30, according to a statement of facts tendered in court.
Estelita Huijer, the model ex-girlfriend of rock star Daniel Johns, breached a restraining order by going to her latest lover’s home to tell him she was pregnant with his child. She is pictured outside court on Thursday
Huijer had not been allowed to go within 50m of restaurateur Andrew Becher (above) since August last year when police took out an apprehended violence order against her on his behalf
‘The accused informed the victim that she is pregnant and said the baby is his,’ the statement said.
‘The accused and the victim began speaking when the victim demanded her to get a paternity test. The victim [Becher] called police a short time later.’
Huijer attended Bondi Beach police station about 2.45pm the same day and was arrested for breaching the AVO.
During a routine search police found Huijer was carrying 0.53 grams of cannabis in a tobacco pouch which she said she had found on a Bondi street.
Huijer, who had Becher’s baby about four months ago, committed two more breaches of the order during her pregnancy earlier this year.
‘Since service of the [AVO], there have been occasions in which the accused has contacted the victim by phone, texting and WhatsApp,’ another statement of facts said.
‘The most recent contact was a missed phone call from the accused at 5.04am on January 16, 2025.’
Two days later, Huijer was caught on CCTV in the lobby of Becher’s home about 8.45am. Five minutes after that, Becher’s building manager called him to say Huijer had been buzzing his intercom.
Huijer dated Daniel Johns for four years from 2013 after the Silverchair frontman had quit the chart-topping band to concentrate on his solo career. The former couple are pictured
In the past 15 months, Huijer has been charged with assault, stealing, fraud, possessing drugs, trespassing, vandalism and repeatedly breaching a restraining order
The manager sent Becher screenshots of the CCTV and the following day Becher rang Rose Bay police to report the lobby visit and missed call.
On Thursday, Huijer was set to face a hearing at Downing Centre Local Court over the three AVO breaches as well as an assault charge and one of possessing a prohibited drug.
But the assault charge was withdrawn and Huijer pleaded guilty to the other offences when Becher failed to show up.
Huijer’s barrister Evan James asked for the matters to be adjourned for sentencing in December when she will attempt to have them dealt with under mental health provisions of the law.
On the same day Huijer is listed for a hearing into separate allegations involving Becher after pleading not guilty to dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception at Point Piper in January last year.
In the past 15 months, Huijer has been charged with assault, stealing, fraud, possessing drugs, trespassing, vandalism and repeatedly breaching a restraining order.
Huijer was arrested on August 1 last year over a series of events which allegedly took place earlier that day and during the previous night at Becher’s home.
She was originally charged with common assault, trespass, stealing more than $2,000 in cash and contravening an AVO.
Huijer and Becher had had an ‘on and off intimate relationship’ for the past four years, according to a statement of facts tendered in court in April. Becher is pictured
Huijer was also accused of intentionally damaging property and intentionally marking a premises without consent in relation to an accusation she used a permanent marker to deface Becher’s wardrobe.
She was arrested again the following month after a disturbance at Becher’s unit.
On September 9 last year, Huijer called Triple Zero to report a domestic violence incident, according to a statement of facts tendered in court in April.
She was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with a head injury and later charged with common assault as well as breaching an AVO.
All those charges were due to be heard on April 16 but the prosecutor withdrew each count except one of the AVO breaches after Becher did not appear in court.
Huijer pleaded guilty to that single offence and her solicitor Jessica Tohi said her client had gone to Becher’s home with his consent the night it occurred.
Ms Tohi said Huijer was seven months’ pregnant to Becher and was facing ‘significant personal challenges’ with ‘limited familial or social support’.
She said Huijer was ‘navigating a complex and often unsafe dynamic’ with Becher and submitted an appropriate punishment would be a conditional release order.
The end of Huijer’s relationship with Becher left her ‘navigating a complex and often unsafe dynamic’ while she carried his child, her solicitor previously told a magistrate
Magistrate Scott Nash said Huijer’s offending was at the lower end of the scale and granted Ms Tohi’s request, imposing a 12-month conditional release order with a conviction, as well as a two-year AVO.
Huijer had spent a night in custody before she first faced Waverley Local Court over the alleged incident at Huijer’s home in August.
She sobbed that day as Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge granted her bail, and delivered a stern warning.
‘You breach any of these conditions, you have any contact with him again, bail will be taken off you,’ Ms Milledge had said.
‘This constitutes a very serious breach of the order and it’s an indication that it’s escalating, and you’re becoming more desperate.’
Huijer was back in the same court on October 27 for a hearing into the charges she pleaded guilty to on Thursday.
On that occasion, Huijer sat in the public gallery holding her 14-week-old child as the case was adjourned.
Becher had presented police with what a prosecutor said was ‘a large amount of fresh evidence’ which had not been served on Huijer.
Huijer (right) is pictured leaving court on Thursday with barrister Evan James and solicitor Jessica Tohi
The fresh evidence, contained on a USB flash drive, included CCTV, screenshots and a phone recording the prosecutor said would prove Huijer had breached the AVO.
Huijer was first made the subject of an AVO to protect Becher in June 2021.
That order, which included a requirement she not approach Becher within 12 hours of drinking alcohol or taking illicit drugs, was put in place for two years.
At the same time she was found guilty of resisting a police officer and sentenced to a 12-month conditional release order without proceeding to conviction.
Another two-year AVO protecting Becher from Huijer was made in March last year.
On that day, an assault charge was withdrawn and Huijer pleaded guilty to contravening an AVO. She was not convicted but was sentenced to another 12-month conditional release order.