Paul Galea: The Tattoo Society owner guilty of DV offences
The owner of one of the state’s biggest tattoo studios committed 17 offences over nine months, including common assault and destroying property.
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The owner of one of Tasmania’s top tattoo studios committed 16 domestic violence offences over a period of about nine months, including assaulting his ex-wife and destroying her property.
The Tattoo Society owner Paul Phillip Galea, 31, previously pleaded guilty in Launceston Magistrates Court to a total of 17 offences.
He was due to be sentenced on Wednesday, but it was adjourned to a later date to enable the production of a report.
Court documents reveal Galea is guilty of a number of offences, most seriously common assault, two counts of destroying property, and possessing a prohibited shotgun gel-blaster.
The remainder of Galea’s offending was breaching his bail conditions and a police family violence order.
His offending was committed at Riverside and Westbury between May 21 last year and February 20 this year.
According to the documents, last year Galea assaulted his ex-wife by tripping her.
Earlier, on May 21, 2021, Galea travelled to Westbury where he destroyed “glass doors on two display cabinets, a cake display lid, an iPhone 11 Pro and a dining room table chair” belonging to the woman.
Galea repartnered in June this year, according to Facebook – just four months after he ceased terrorising his ex-wife, who he founded The Tattoo Society with in 2017.
Galea is not the first artist from the studio to have assaulted a woman.
South Launceston man Lucian Alexander Blackberry-Nicholls, who goes by the name Lucian Lethborg, pleaded guilty earlier this year to common assault.
The court heard he pushed a woman into a wall, but claimed he was actually trying to save the woman’s life by preventing her from tumbling off a balcony.
Blackberry-Nicholls was placed on a 12-month good-behaviour bond. No conviction was recorded.
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