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On a bad note By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A PROFESSIONAL musician has been placed on a good-behaviour bond without conviction after holding down and repeatedly punching his wife in front of friends at a barbecue party in Lynbrook. The 32-year-old escaped with a warning and good-behaviour bond after pleading the need to retain his overseas job prospects at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The accused - who has been served
with a family-violence protection order - pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife of 10 years, striking her in the face, upper body and legs as he held her down on a couch on 3 April. The assault only stopped when the man was pulled away by a witness, police prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Glenn Horman told the court. The man had at the time consumed “half-a-slab” of beer, accused the victim of having a boyfriend, and ordered her not to go out to meet her brother at
Crown Casino, the court was told. In a police interview, the man denied clenching his fist and striking the woman. He didn’t know how he caused his wife’s bruised left eye. Defence lawyer Raphael de Vietri said the man “of good character” had no prior criminal offences, nor a “history of violence” against his wife. “It was a situation where (he) consumed alcohol excessively and allowed his behaviour to get out of control and treat his wife in a most unacceptable manner.
“His indication is he is quite ashamed of his behaviour after seeing his wife’s bruised eye.” Mr de Vietri said a conviction would jeopardise his client’s frequent overseas work, which helped support the family’s 10-year-old child. Magistrate Jack Vandersteen described the attack as “serious” and “high-level family-violence”. The accused’s controlling behaviour - in restricting his wife from seeing her brother - was an additional level of fam-
ily violence, Mr Vandersteen said. “He must be someone who drinks a lot of alcohol,” he said of the man’s consumption of 18-20 standard drinks at the barbecue. Mr Vandersteen had the man assessed for a community-corrections order but ultimately found it would be a disproportionately harsh restriction on the family’s livelihood. Under a CCO, the accused would not have been allowed to leave Victoria for the order’s duration.
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and then started holding her chest, she was in and out of consciousness,” Chantel said. Six-year-old Taylor called her dad, Brett and nan and poppy on the house phone. “Mum told me to call and I know nan’s phone number off by heart, we went to nan’s for dinner and stayed the night it was the first time I’d ever seen an ambulance,” Taylor said. The operator stayed on the phone to Chantel until the ambulance arrived at their Cranbourne home. “She told me to do the breath test and say every time mum breathed, and she told me the sirens were on and that the ambulance was coming,” Chantel said. “They are my two little he- Mum Krystal, flanked by daughters Taylor and Chantel, is proud of her children’s efforts to Picture: ROB CAREW save her. 139355 roes,” Krystal said.
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