After years of abuse, the woman walked into a police station. In tears, she told officers what she had endured.
A NSW man who locked his wife inside their home, told her “I’m going to murder you” and smashed her phone has become the first person to plead guilty under the controversial coercive control legislation.A NSW man who told his wife “I’m going to murder you” has become the first person to be convicted under new coercive control laws.The woman walked into Leeton police station in the state’s Riverina region to report her husband on July 26, less than a month after the laws had been passed.
A fortnight later, the woman asked her husband if she could go to Woolworths to buy fruit for their children. He accused her of seeing other men. When her phone rang, he snatched it off her, alleging another man was contacting her, while a woman’s voice could be heard talking about outstanding bills.
He was also charged with four other domestic violence offences. One of those charges was dropped, and he pleaded guilty to the other four. He remains on bail ahead of being sentenced in Griffith Local Court next month.
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