Bendigo cricketer Joshua Mark Collinson bailed to appeal jail sentence for savage bashing of woman

A Bendigo thug jailed for hospitalising a woman in a savage assault is back in the community appealing a court’s decision that found he could eventually kill someone.

A Bendigo cricketer father of three is appealing his nine month jail sentence after he was convicted of a savage attack on a woman. Picture: Facebook.

A Bendigo cricketer jailed for hospitalising a woman in a savage assault is back in the community appealing a court’s decision that found him to be a “risk” of eventually killing someone.

Father-of-three Joshua Collinson, 36, was convicted and jailed for nine months after he was found guilty of a “shocking and harrowing” bashing of a woman after a night out at the Bendigo Club with his cricket mates in 2022.

Collinson came home and started yelling at the woman and hitting her in the face before dragging her by the hair down a hallway into the kitchen and kicked her while she was on the floor and slammed an over door into her.

Collinson grabbed the woman by the hair and “screamed” in her face before grabbing her throat and choking her so she couldn’t breath.

She was hospitalised and left battered, bruised and bleeding from her eye.

The sentencing Magistrate, Sharon McCrae, said in February that Collinson had a history of violence against women, and had shown no remorse for his “prolonged and disgusting assault”.

Joshua Collinson is appealing a nine month jail sentence after he was found guilty of a brutal assault on a woman.

Ms McRae said it was “lucky no one was killed” and if Collinson didn’t change his behaviour, he would “risk” eventually killing someone.

But after serving just one month of his sentence, Collinson was released back into the community on bail by the County Court as he appeals his penalty.

The victim said in a statement to the court she could do nothing to defend herself because she didn’t want to make Collinson angrier.

“The safest thing for me to do in that moment was to lie down and take it. It would just be worse if I fought back,” she said.

“It felt like a lifetime lying on the kitchen floor.

“I just had to hope he didn’t go for knives.”

Collinson remains on bail ahead of appeals in the County Court scheduled for July and August.