Man bashed his former partner’s new boyfriend with a car jack handle
A man has been sentenced to jail for “horrendous” attack on his former partner’s new boyfriend with a metal bar.
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A man bashed his former partner’s new boyfriend with a car jack handle outside the man’s home in a shocking attack.
In January 2019, Brett Hockey met with his son’s teacher and became infuriated at his former partner’s new boyfriend.
Hockey got in his ute and drove over to the Lawnton property that his former partner lived at.
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When he got to the house he grabbed the car’s jack handle out and began yelling abuse at the man.
Hockey, 37, demanded the man open the gate and come to the driveway, but the man refused to fight him.
Despite being asked repeatedly, Hockey would not leave the property and tried to hit the man with the jack handle through the fence.
Eventually the man came outside as Hockey would not leave.
Hockey hit the man repeatedly in the torso with the metal bar and the two began to wrestle.
During the wrestle the other man seriously injured his ankle and could not get up off the ground.
When police arrived Hockey had left the scene but the other man was siting bloodied on the footpath.
Police did not speak to Hockey until October and he was not charged with the crime until January 2020.
He pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to assault occasioning bodily harm while armed today.
The court heard the other man suffered serious bruising to his torso and a complicated sprain with fractures that required medical attention.
Magistrate Trevor Morgan said Hockey’s behaviour was “horrendous” and found he had formed a “premeditated plan” to bash the other man.
“It was a remarkably violent decision to make,” he said.
Hockey was sentenced to three months jail, wholly suspended.
Originally published as Man bashed his former partner’s new boyfriend with a car jack handle