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Man jailed after 'father figure' hurt

By Court Reporter
Whanganui Chronicle·
26 Apr, 2012 07:45 PM3 mins to read

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A man who walked into another man's workplace and attacked him has been sent to jail.

Paul Bradley McDonald, 25, was convicted of assault with intent to injure and assaulting a female, having earlier pleaded guilty to the charges.

He was convicted on those charges, and re-sentenced on earlier charges of wilful damage and assault.

He appeared in the Wanganui District Court and was sentenced to eight months in jail, and convicted and discharged on the count of wilful damage by Judge David Cameron.

He was also convicted and discharged for breaching his prison conditions.

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In the lead charge, the assault with intent to injure, McDonald went to the workplace of his victim mid-morning on January 10, where he approached him and pushed him up against a wall.

He threw him to the floor, where he knelt and punched him in the face several times, before kicking him in the stomach and stomping on his thigh.

McDonald then punched him to the face again and left.

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The victim was left with a black eye, a cut to his face, and pain in his thigh.

The charge of assaulting a female arose on February 8, when McDonald started verbally abusing his partner when she said she could not afford to buy him a hamburger for dinner.

He threw her into a bedroom and after checking she did not have a cellphone, taunted her about being unable to call the police. It was not until she agreed to get him a hamburger that she was allowed to leave.

She suffered a sore wrist from the incident.

On the matters for which he was re-sentenced, both charges arose from the same event on November 7, 2011.

McDonald was at the address of the same victim as in the male assaults female offending, when he got a text message from another girl. He and the victim had been seeing each other, but had recently broken up. The victim saw the text message, and when she was told he was seeing someone else, she asked McDonald to leave.

He became angry and pushed her, causing her to fall into the wall. When she went to phone police, he ripped it from her grasp and threw it away, and ripped the phone unit out of the wall.

When she ran to get a cellphone he picked her up and threw her to the ground, wrestling the the cellphone from her and smashing it.

In the breach of prison release conditions, he moved to a new residence without prior written approval on January 31.

McDonald's counsel, Roger Crowley, said the victim of the assault had known McDonald for a long time, had been a father figure in his life and had not wanted him charged for the assault.

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