Tradie sentenced for assault after video game dispute

A tradie with a history of drink, drug, and negligent driving offences has been sentenced for assaulting a woman after he verbally abused a person playing video games.

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A tradie with a history of drink, drug, and negligent driving offences has been sentenced for assaulting a woman who challenged him after he verbally abused a person playing video games.

On Thursday, a man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - appeared in Windsor Local Court, pleading guilty to common assault - domestic violence related.

Police facts tendered the court state the assault occurred after 11pm on June 9.

After finishing work, the man drank alcohol and started to “verbally abuse” a person who was playing video games, the court heard.

A woman, hearing the verbal abuse, tried to remove the man from the room where he was abusing the person playing video games.

The man was sentenced at Windsor Local Court for assault.

“(She) intervened and tried to stop (the man). He then pushed (her),” court documents state.

The person playing the video games went outside and contacted the police.

According to documents tendered to court, the assault comes on the back of numerous driving offences for the man, including multiple instances of drink driving, driving with a suspended licence, driving while under the influence of an illicit drug, as well as negligent driving and driving recklessly.

In court Magistrate Leanne Robinson said the man’s behaviour that night was “completely unacceptable”.

“(You are) old enough to know better,” she said. “It seems that alcohol probably had a role to play, I don’t know if illicit drugs did.”

Ms Robinson convicted the man and fined him $600 for the offence.