Father choked and pushed adult daughter into a wall, knocking her out, gets good behaviour bond
A dad who held his 22-year-old daughter in a chokehold and pushed her into a wall, knocking her out, has escaped jail time.
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A father who choked, grabbed and pushed his daughter has walked free from court with a good behaviour bond.
On one occasion he held his hand tightly over the 22-year-old’s throat because he believed she had lost his coffee cup lid, while on another he pushed her into a wall, knocking her out, because she had left ash on her deceased mother’s chair.
Mark George Coxhell pleaded guilty to two unlawful assaults and a reckless injury charge at Frankston Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
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The court heard the 52-year-old concreter had moved into the daughter’s Chelsea unit after her mother died.
The relationship between Coxhell and the daughter, who was conceived from a brief relationship he had with the mother 22 years ago, was tense at times.
It flared up on August 23 last year when Coxhell asked his daughter where his coffee cup was. She told him it was in the back of his ute; he found it, but couldn’t locate the lid.
Angry, he stormed into her bedroom and demanded to know where it was.
A physical fight followed, he grabbed her and she scratched him to try and get away.
He then placed her in a choke hold, held his hand against her throat and she started to go limp. He released his grip and she reported the assault to police.
Before that, on July 9 last year, the pair had argued over her deceased mother’s possessions.
He pushed her into a wall, and she was knocked out for a short while, receiving a bruise and swelling to her forehead.
And on September 2, 2017 he again pushed her against a wall, but this time she managed to break free.
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In court his defence lawyer said the relationship between them was tense and he was frustrated by her lack of ambition.
The pair now has no contact, he said.
Magistrate Vicky Prapas said the assaults would have been very scary for the daughter but by pleading guilty Coxhell had accepted responsibility and spared her the trauma of going to court.
He was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond, and ordered to do an anger management course and pay $600 to the White Ribbon Foundation. No conviction was recorded.
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