Today's news story from my neck of the woods. Dude beat the crap out of his girlfriend, it started because she looked at a shirtless guy on the tv show they were watching. Doesn't mention that she even said anything, just "looked". Like she's supposed to close her eyes or turn her head away.
WTF!
Some people aren't cut out to be breathing the same air as the rest of us.
Ottawa and Region
Four years for brutal assault
By MEGAN GILLIS, Sun Media
A judge sentenced a man to four years Monday for beating his girlfriend with his fists and anything else that came to hand – including a stick, a curtain rod and a toilet plunger – and leaving her with a broken jaw.
Collin Robinson, 32, will have approximately 28-and-a-half months left to serve after getting the usual two-for-one credit for time in jail before he was sentenced.
Ontario Court Justice Hugh Fraser called the beatings “vicious” and said he could find no mitigating factors in sentencing the father-of-three, who had no previous criminal record.
“This is a case of an accused who used his fists – as well as other objects – to beat his partner into submission,” Fraser said.
Robinson was convicted of forcible confinement, aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and with threatening to kill the woman, her parents and her dog.
The victim was abused over the course of a one-year relationship, which ended in Aug. 2007. The woman once left Robinson but the pair reconciled.
Police were called to the final assault when a passerby heard the woman’s screams.
On that occasion, the woman testified that Robinson – who was jealous and controlling – became enraged when she looked at a shirtless man on the TV they were watching.
He punched her in the ribs, stomach and jaw and started choking her until she almost blacked out. He pushed her into a closet door, breaking it.
He then told her she was in more trouble because of the broken door and started beating her with a curtain rod. Police forced open the door and Robinson told the woman, who had injuries including a a broken jaw and rib and bruises and abrasions, to hide in bed.
What’s “remarkable,” Fraser said, is that his demeanour to police was as calm as if he was simply getting ready to go to bed, when his battered partner was cowering under a duvet, trying to hide her injuries.
The judge didn’t agree with defence arguments that Robinson get three-for-one credit for time spent at the overcrowded Ottawa Carleton Regional Detention Centre.
Three inmates bunked in cells designed for two and Robinson was beaten by a group of inmates but he was there because he’d breached bail conditions, Fraser said.
Robinson is also banned from owning weapons for a decade and was ordered to submit a DNA sample to the national registry.
megan.gillis@sunmedia.ca
WTF!
Some people aren't cut out to be breathing the same air as the rest of us.Ottawa and Region
Four years for brutal assault
By MEGAN GILLIS, Sun Media
A judge sentenced a man to four years Monday for beating his girlfriend with his fists and anything else that came to hand – including a stick, a curtain rod and a toilet plunger – and leaving her with a broken jaw.
Collin Robinson, 32, will have approximately 28-and-a-half months left to serve after getting the usual two-for-one credit for time in jail before he was sentenced.
Ontario Court Justice Hugh Fraser called the beatings “vicious” and said he could find no mitigating factors in sentencing the father-of-three, who had no previous criminal record.
“This is a case of an accused who used his fists – as well as other objects – to beat his partner into submission,” Fraser said.
Robinson was convicted of forcible confinement, aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and with threatening to kill the woman, her parents and her dog.
The victim was abused over the course of a one-year relationship, which ended in Aug. 2007. The woman once left Robinson but the pair reconciled.
Police were called to the final assault when a passerby heard the woman’s screams.
On that occasion, the woman testified that Robinson – who was jealous and controlling – became enraged when she looked at a shirtless man on the TV they were watching.
He punched her in the ribs, stomach and jaw and started choking her until she almost blacked out. He pushed her into a closet door, breaking it.
He then told her she was in more trouble because of the broken door and started beating her with a curtain rod. Police forced open the door and Robinson told the woman, who had injuries including a a broken jaw and rib and bruises and abrasions, to hide in bed.
What’s “remarkable,” Fraser said, is that his demeanour to police was as calm as if he was simply getting ready to go to bed, when his battered partner was cowering under a duvet, trying to hide her injuries.
The judge didn’t agree with defence arguments that Robinson get three-for-one credit for time spent at the overcrowded Ottawa Carleton Regional Detention Centre.
Three inmates bunked in cells designed for two and Robinson was beaten by a group of inmates but he was there because he’d breached bail conditions, Fraser said.
Robinson is also banned from owning weapons for a decade and was ordered to submit a DNA sample to the national registry.
megan.gillis@sunmedia.ca
