NT: Man charged with brutal assaults on his partner in Alice

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2009
NT: Man charged with brutal assaults on his partner in Alice

DARWIN, April 1 AAP - A woman with a broken arm left an Alice Springs hospital to go
drinking with the man accused of injuring her, only to be badly hurt again, police say.

She returned for more treatment the following day after the man allegedly broke the
same arm again and bashed her face, they said.

The 41-year-old man was arrested outside Alice Springs Hospital on Tuesday and police
have charged him with attacking the woman on several occasions.

The woman was admitted to hospital last week and treated for a broken arm, allegedly
caused by the offender on March 17.

Less than a week later, he attacked her by smashing a bottle over her head and repeatedly
striking her with a rock, police said.

The woman left hospital to go drinking with her partner on Monday.

But she returned the next morning having sustained another break to the injured arm,
along with severe lacerations and bruising to the head.

Police said the same man attacked the woman on November 24 last year, when he assaulted
her with a stick and broke both her arms.

After being arrested outside the hospital he was charged with numerous offences, including
three counts of serious harm, four counts of aggravated assault, three counts of being
armed with an offence weapon, and one count of making threats to cause injury.

The man has been remanded in custody to appear in the Alice Springs Magistrates Court
on Wednesday.

Police said an emergency Domestic Violence Order was also taken out on the woman's behalf.

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