Tyreece Elijah Mervyn Simpson sentenced to jail for violent attack on mother of his children with machete

A South Burnett man who strangled the mother of his children and cut her with a machete has been sentenced in court. Here’s what happened:

A Cherbourg man was sentenced to two and a half years in jail after he grabbed the mother of his children by the neck and cut her arm with a machete.

Tyreece Elijah Mervyn Simpson went home to rest after attending a party at Cherbourg on September 12 when his girlfriend of eight years told him she wanted to return to the event, which infuriated him to the point of grabbing her by the throat.

The 21-year-old told the woman she “wasn’t f–king leaving” and forced her by the neck into the bedroom, Crown Prosecutor Samantha O’Rourke told the Kingaroy District Court.

With Simpson’s hand gripping her underneath the jaw and blocking her airway, the victim’s vision was starting to blur by the time he threw her on the bed and continued to choke her.

“When she called out he punched her in the face. He armed himself with a machete and threatened the (woman) to ‘hold her arm there or he was going to cut her throat’,” Ms O’Rourke said.

Simpson held the blade to the victim’s skin, which cut her forearm and hand as she instinctively moved her arm.

Once he spotted the blood dripping from her arm he apologised at once and told her “he’d kill himself before he killed her”, Ms O’Rourke told the court.

Simpson’s lawyer James Feely said his client told him that while he hasn’t been officially diagnosed with a mental disorder, he tends to go into a very dark place when drinking alcohol.

Simpson pleaded guilty to choking, strangulation or suffocation, assault occasioning bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, and two counts of contravening a domestic violence order, and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail

His parole release date was set for April 30.