Shortly after reaching home and smelling of alcohol, he got into an argument together with his then 41-year-old wife and hit her. She called the police around 2:45 a.m., and two officers arrived at their home.
“As the officers were leaving at around 3:30 a.m., the accused closed the door of the unit and punched the victim in the right shoulder, causing him to scream,” said deputy prosecutor Timotheus Koh. Hearing the blows and screams, the officers detained the husband.
The incident occurred when the wife was the topic of a private protection order issued against the accused by the court on March 10 last yr. Court documents didn’t indicate what led to the protection order being filed.
A number of months after the alcohol-fueled assault, the victim’s older brother and sister-in-law called on September 15 to inform his wife that her husband had sent his brother photos of her, including certainly one of her topless.
“The photos were accompanied by messages from the accused stating that the victim was a ‘child pig’, a ‘prostitute’ and that she got here from a ‘characterless family’,” Koh said.
“The victim felt humiliated, degraded and harassed. The photo showed her face together with her breasts exposed.
The topless photo was taken during a video call the pair had a month earlier. Although the wife agreed to reveal her chest through the conversation, she didn’t allow her husband to take a screenshot of her or send the photo to anyone else.
The victim felt humiliated, degraded and molested. The photo showed her face together with her breasts exposed
Later, on November 25 last yr, the husband was caught driving the van at around 2.15am.
According to the court, he drank roughly three to 4 glasses of whiskey during a night spent with friends. A breathalyzer test showed his breath contained 87 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of exhaled air, well above the utmost legal limit of 35 mcg per 100 ml.
After pleading guilty to distributing a voyeuristic image, breaching a private protection order and voluntarily causing harm, the defendant was on Monday last week sentenced to 6 months and 4 weeks in prison and ordered to pay a advantageous of A$7,500 (US$5,500) and disqualified from driving license for 42 months.
On one other occasion he also pleaded guilty to a charge of driving drunk. Three other charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.
For voluntarily causing hurt, the husband may very well be sentenced to imprisonment for up to a few years, a advantageous of as much as A$5,000, or each.
For distributing voyeuristic images or recordings, he could have faced as much as five years in prison, a advantageous or caning, or a mix thereof.
Breach of a private protection order is punishable by a advantageous not exceeding A$2,000 or imprisonment of as much as six months, or each.
Driving drunk may end up in a advantageous starting from A$2,000 to A$10,000, imprisonment of as much as 12 months and a driving ban.
