Blood assault admitted
A medical report will find out whether Brandon Lee Coulson’s assault victim has contracted Hepatitis C after he splashed infected blood on her face.
Coulson, 17, had had Hepatitis C since a young age, police prosecutor David Rusbatch told the Christchurch District Court today when Coulson admitted the assault charge.
Judge Alistair Garland put off sentencing to April 13 for a restorative justice assessment, and a pre-sentence report, and the results of the woman victim’s medical test.
He told defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger that the outcome of the medical test would determine the seriousness of the offending. If the woman had contracted Hepatitis C as result of his behaviour “an apology won’t be sufficient”.
Mr Rusbatch said the assault took place during a domestic incident when Coulson became agitated about a medical condition and verbally abused the woman.
He went into a laundry where he punched a hole in a wall, causing his hand to bleed.
When he returned to the dispute he continued to yell abuse, and then reached past a woman who was protecting the victim, and splattered blood onto the victim’s face.
“The victim was terrified and tried to clean the blood off her face,” he said.
Miss Bulger said Coulson had wanted to meet the woman and apologise afterwards, but had been unable to meet her because of the non-contact condition of his bail.
Coulson was remanded on bail.
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