A former Sydney police officer was charged with 14 offenses after a two-year campaign of violence against a woman. Jonathan Charles Bettles used his position to threaten and intimidate the victim, preventing her from reporting the abuse.
A former Sydney police officer who repeatedly bashed a woman, once knocking her unconscious, made her scared to report the assaults because of his position and convinced her to give police a fake name for him, court documents reveal. Jonathan Charles Bettles, who was previously a senior constable attached to a specialist command within the NSW Police Force, pleaded guilty in December to 14 charges after more than two years of violence against the woman, who cannot be identified.
Credit:The offences include assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, destroying and damaging property, and intending to pervert the course of justice. “The offender had always made the victim feel like he knew about the law, and that all police would be like him, and would believe him over her,” according to the agreed facts, obtained by this masthead from Burwood Local Court on Wednesday.During a holiday to the United States for “Police Week”, Bettles pushed the woman over during an argument, causing her to hit her face on a wall-mounted heater. “She was scared to be around him, and felt that it did not make sense, given the offender could otherwise be a nice, decent person, and was a police officer,” the facts state. During other assaults, Bettles poured a can of Coca-Cola over the woman, hit her in the face forcing her earring to rip out, and caused $800-$900 of damage to gyprock after pushing her into a wall. He also ruined her $400 make-up kit by putting it in the bathroom sink and turning the tap on, stomped on her foot and broke her toe, and punched her in the car, leaving her “frightened”.“She considered calling the police, but felt scared to do so, as the offender always made the victim feel that he ‘understood the system’ better than she did,” the facts state
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