Derryn Hinch listener threatened to injure 3AW station manager Ernest John Weston had been a long-time supporter of Derryn Hinch, pictured, and victims of crime. A MAN incensed by 3AW's decision to end Derryn Hinch's broadcasting contract has been slapped with a good behaviour bond for threatening to seriously injure station general manager Shane Healy. In a letter to Mr Healy written on the day it was announced that Hinch had been sacked, Ernest John Weston wrote: "Shane, keep looking over your shoulder old boy. I promise to give you a bullet to the head, or even better one of your family you f---ing c---. You are the biggest prick of all time. Melbourne Magistrates" Court heard today that Mr Healy's personal assistant received and opened the letter on August 30 last year. Prosecutor Leading Sen-Constable Glenn Kilburn said the threatening letter was shown to Mr Healy, who contacted police. Sen-Constable Kilburn said detectives executed a warrant at Weston's home on September 12 and, after he initially denied the allegations, he later attended Melbourne West police station and requested he be re-interviewed. Weston, 63, made full admissions, telling detectives: "I don't even know why I did it." A letter of reference tendered to the court during Weston's plea hearing today described his actions as "a brain fade completely out of character." Defence barrister Anthony Lewis told Magistrate Brian Clifford that Weston, a City of Port Phillip community bus driver who looked after the disabled and the elderly, had been a long-time supporter of Hinch and victims of crime. In that light, Weston was astonished and ashamed of his actions and staggered to be appearing as an offender in court, Mr Lewis explained. The court was told that on the day he heard about Hinch's sacking, Weston had taken a number of anti-inflammatory pills and pain killers before ringing the station in an agitated state. He then wrote the letter. Weston pleaded guilty to threatening to inflict serious injury to Mr Healy. Mr Clifford agreed not to hit Weston - a man with no prior criminal convictions - with a conviction this time around. Noting his guilty plea and remorse, Mr Clifford handed Weston a 12-month good behaviour bond and ordered him to pay $1000 to the court fund and undergo psychological counselling. In his afternoon broadcast the day after he was told his services were no longer required, Hinch told his listeners: "I walked out of the studio after (Monday's) program and I felt pretty good about things. I was then called into a meeting with the station's general manager Shane Healy and the program director Clarke Forbes and I can't be much of an investigative reporter, because they sacked me and I didn't see it coming. Before the real spin kicked in, they said that they were not renewing my contract next year. It was all very civil. I asked why and was told 'we're taking the station in a different direction'. I pointed out that my Drive program was rating number one in Melbourne and so the only other direction they could take it, was down. I didn't get a real explanation for why I was being terminated and I still haven't. I thought that was owed to me and even more importantly to you, the listeners.