Aaron Leyton Wumi will remain behind bars after being sentenced to four years' jail over a brutal attack on his girlfriend in the Perth CBD.
Aaron Leyton Wumi has been sentenced to four years' jail for attacking his girlfriend in Perth's CBD.
The Perth District Court on Thursday heard Wumi struck the 24-year-old's head against the wall several times, and continued to punch and kick her after she fell to the ground. When paramedics arrived, they formed a view that she was alive but in cardiac arrest. They began CPR but Nyaparu died at the scene.A post-mortem showed Nyaparu suffered soft tissue damage from the attack, but she died as a result of a heart attack.During an interview with police, he admitted hitting her because he was jealous she had left him alone earlier that night.The court was told there was no evidence that the assault had directly or indirectly caused Nyaparu's death.
Police in Yagan Square in Perth on December 15, 2022, after the suspicious death of a woman in the CBD overnight.His lawyer told the court Wumi felt extremely remorseful for what he did and read out a statement from her client to the court. In her sentencing remarks she accepted Wumi's remorse but said his actions were serious domestic violence."At your hands, she was being assaulted and humiliated, by a person that is supposed to care and love her," Judge Hughes told Wumi.Judge Huges told Wumi his behaviour must change.
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