Brunswick Heads man Joshua Aaron Boutros faces Byron Bay Court after trying to gouge man’s eyes out
A possessive Northern NSW man showed up at his ex’s Byron Bay home at night and tried to gouge out her new partner’s eye. Here’s how a court dealt with the attack.
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A possessive Northern Rivers man showed up at his ex-partner’s house at night and tried to gouge out her new partner’s eye after finding the pair in bed together, a court heard.
Brunswick Heads man Joshua Aaron Boutros, 33, pleaded guilty at Byron Bay Local Court on Monday to common assault and intimidation.
The woman dated Boutros for just one month before she ended the relationship to get back together with a man who was formerly her long-term partner, police facts state.
The woman and the man woke up to their dogs barking and spotted Boutros outside their Byron Bay home about 8pm on November 29 last year.
The woman told Boutros to leave and said her partner was home.
Boutros asked if the man was sleeping in her bed and she responded that he was.
Boutros walked around the house to a sliding door leading to the woman’s bedroom and confronted the man, police documents state.
He began banging on the glass door and yelling threats.
“I’m going to kill you c--t ... I‘m going to bury you,” Boutros told the man.
The man unlocked the door and asked Boutros to leave, but he responding by grabbing the victim by the shirt and dragging him outside, court documents state.
Boutros wrestled the man and “attempted to gouge out the victim’s left eye”.
The man flipped Boutros onto the grass and told him to leave: “Get out of here.”
The woman told Boutros she was calling the police and later provided a statement to officers.
Boutros was arrested the next day and granted bail.
Defence lawyer Kylie Anderson-Clarke told the court Boutros was medicated for a bipolar disorder and the “irrational behaviour was out of character”.
“He lost his cool,” Ms Anderson-Clark said.
Magistrate Karen Stafford sentenced Boutros to serve a community corrections order for 12 months.
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