A Napier City councillor's son has been jailed for three years and three months for "disfiguring" a woman during an attack at a New Year's Eve party on Marine Parade.
Donovan Gene Hannay, the 24-year-old son of councillor Michelle Pyke, was sentenced in Napier District Court yesterday after being found guilty of two counts of wounding with reckless disregard and one of assaulting a female. The court was told that in the early hours of January 1 this year, Hannay was asked to leave a party by a woman after a confrontation.
Judge Tony Adeane said during his deliberations yesterday, that Hannay "advanced" on the woman before striking the male victim on the back of the head with a "heavy drinking glass".
"You then struck another blow with the jagged glass to the forehead of [the female victim]."
He determined Hannay had deliberately stabbed the woman in the head. He was also described as "agitated" and "angry" by police officers who later arrived at the scene.
