Keynan Lingwoodock-Warde sentenced at Gladstone for DV attacks

He’d been on a premiership-winning rugby league team and worked as a bricklayer but behind closed doors this Queensland footy star had his 22-year-old partner fearing for her life.

Keynan James Graeme Barrie Lingwoodock-Warde.

A former premiership winning Gladstone rugby league player has been sentenced for “terrifying” domestic violence attacks on his former partner.

Keynan James Graeme Barrie Lingwoodock-Warde, 28, pleaded guilty in the District Court at Gladstone to charges including strangulation, three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, and two counts of possessing dangerous drugs.

The court heard the strangulation and assaults were domestic violence offences and they happened over an eight-day period while Lingwoodock-Warde was using methamphetamine while living with his 22-year-old female partner.

It was told that Lingwoodock-Warde had “coercive control” over the woman.

During the first incident, an argument escalated to the point where Lingwoodock-Warde grabbed the woman by the neck with two hands, squeezed, and said: “I’ll kill you, c---.”

She could not breathe and tried unsuccessfully to push Lingwoodock-Warde off her, the court heard.

She started “blacking out” and Lingwoodock-Warde let go of her neck.

Keynan James Graeme Barrie Lingwoodcock-Ward put his foot on a woman’s head before hitting her face twice. He later tried to push pens into her mouth.

In another incident, Lingwoodock-Warde put his foot on the woman’s head and pushed it into a mattress before hitting her face twice and then punching her in the face.

Later, he tried to push pens into her mouth.

Another time, Lingwoodock-Warde pulled the woman by the hair and forced her head into a carpeted floor “several times”, wrestled with her and threw her “in the air.”

The court heard as a result, the woman suffered a very serious shoulder injury.

The Crown said the attacks were “cowardly and unprovoked.”

Judge Tony Moynihan said the domestic violence offences “would have been terrifying” for the woman and what Lingwoodock-Warde did was “completely unjustifiable and unacceptable.”

The court heard Lingwoodock-Warde had no previous DV convictions on his “relatively minor” criminal history.

Barrister Rachel Hew said Lingwoodock-Warde was no longer using meth, he was sorry for what he did and he felt bad about it.

Ms Hew said Lingwoodock-Warde had previously worked as a bricklayer and he intended to return to that when released from custody.

The barrister said Lingwoodock-Warde’s mother was in court to support him.

On May 29, Judge Moynihan sentenced Lingwoodock-Warde to three years’ jail with immediate parole release, declaring 306 days’ pre-sentence custody as time already served.

Originally published as Keynan Lingwoodock-Warde sentenced at Gladstone for DV attacks