Jail for assaults on woman at her home
A 33-year-old man who assaulted a woman twice, bound her hands with duct tape, wrapped her face in cling-wrap, and punched her on both sides of her face has gone to jail for 31 months.
In the Christchurch District Court Duncan Ross Anderson was also sentenced on previous charges he was on home detention for when he assaulted the woman.
Defence counsel Gerald Lascelles said the attack was inexplicable and irrational, but driven by drugs.
He said Anderson was intelligent and articulate, and if he could give up his lifestyle of drugs he would do well.
At the time of the assaults he was in a highly emotional state, Mr Lascelles said, and that was the catalyst for the actions which followed. There was no premeditation or planning. When he arrived at the woman’s house he was confused and disorientated.
He said that Anderson had been in custody for 11-and-a-half of the last 14 years.
Judge David Saunders sentenced Anderson on charges of unlawfully taking a car, receiving stolen property, 10 charges of theft from cars, two charges of assault, burglary, possession of methamphetamine, and breaching his home detention sentence by being kicked out of an Odyssey House drug programme.
He said Anderson took a bike from the woman’s property, then returned the next day and assaulted her in two separate incidents, and under the influence of drugs.
The police summary said Anderson argued with the woman and pushed her. He left the house, and she phoned the police but he climbed back in through a window and punched her in the face.
She was taken to the hospital for treatment for swelling and bruising, but when she got home Anderson was there again. He carried her into a bedroom and bound her wrists with duct tape.
He removed the tape as she said she thought her wrist was broken and she ran into the kitchen but he took her back into the bedroom, punched her again on the other side of her face and wrapped cling-wrap around her face and mouth, but left her nose exposed so that she could breathe.
Police caught Anderson trying to leave the house on the stolen bike, and the woman still had the cling-wrap on her face.
Judge Saunders said people recognised that Anderson was not unintelligent, and that he needed to overcome the curse of the drug problem he had, and recommended he take the rehabilitation programmes offered to him.
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