Kane Anthony Maguire pleads guilty to violent abuse of woman

An Imbil man’s repeated ‘cowardly’ violence against his partner included pushing her down a flight of stairs, punching her in the head and breaking her ribs.

Kane Anthony Maguire, 31, pleaded guilty in Gympie District Court on Friday April 19, 2024, to four counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, one count of wilful damage, and one count of strangulation in a domestic setting.

A Mary Valley fencer’s “protracted” campaign of violence against his partner, where he bashed her so badly he fractured her ribs, has landed him behind bars until Christmas.

Kane Anthony Maguire, 31, pleaded guilty in Gympie District Court on Friday to four counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, one count of wilful damage, and one count of strangulation in a domestic setting.

All were domestic violence offences.

The court heard Maguire, an Imbil resident, attacked and assaulted his partner of four years in a series of violent attacks between the start of 2022 and early 2023.

In January 2022, he deliberately drove his own car into his victim’s parked car and damaged it, after becoming angry about a matter involving her 18-year-old son.

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Kane Anthony Maguire, 31, pleaded guilty in Gympie District Court on Friday April 19, 2024, to four counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, one count of wilful damage, and one count of strangulation in a domestic setting.

In June 2022 when the woman was driving him home because he was drunk, he punched her three times in the head while she was behind the wheel of the car, while hurling abuse at her.

The court heard in October 2022, Maguire came home from work one afternoon with a plan to spend the rest of the day drinking and partying.

When his partner said she was tired he accused her of cheating and “repeatedly punched her in the ribs, fracturing two”.

In December 2022, the woman came home from her work party to find Maguire asleep, the court was told.

When he woke up he again accused her of cheating, pushed her against the couch, and punched her repeatedly in the face.
As she was telling him to stop he grabbed her by the throat and started squeezing

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Judge Brad Farr said Kane Anthony Maguire’s (pictured) attacks had been “terrifying” for the woman, said his behaviour was nothing short of “cowardly”, and had made his victim “feel unsafe in her own home,”

He then told her to get out of the house, which they shared, and as she was leaving he pushed her down a flight of eight steps.

She was left with a bruised face from the punches and a torn tendon in her shoulder from the fall.

Three months later, in March 2023, he became abusive towards her again and she locked him out of the house.

In response he threw an object through the kitchen window, shattering it.

Judge Brad Farr said Maguire’s attacks had been “terrifying” for the woman, said his behaviour was nothing short of “cowardly”, and had made his victim “feel unsafe in her own home”.

He said the 31-year-old “would have to be living under a rock” to have missed the public discourse around how abhorred these crimes were by the wider community.

Maguire was sentenced to three years jail, with a parole eligibility date of December 12, 2024.

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