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A Linton-based soldier who gave her female lover a prolonged beating on Valentine's Day is facing a prison sentence that will probably see her kicked out of the Army.
The woman, who was granted interim name suppression, pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North District Court yesterday to a charge of common assault, the Manawatu Standard reported.
She was remanded on bail for sentencing on August 14.
The soldier was spurned when she went to her girlfriend's Palmerston North house on February 14, and became enraged, the court heard.
During the attack, which lasted an hour and a half, the victim was called a "fat, ugly bitch" and dragged around the house by her shirt and hair while being punched and kicked.
An attempt to flee through the laundry incurred more violence and she ended up in her bed weeping.
The defendant's lawyer, Gordon Paine, said his client was scheduled to serve in Afghanistan but as a result of the case she was not able to join that deployment.
Some details in the police summary of facts are contested.
Judge Grant Fraser said the woman was facing a prison sentence.
- NZPA
