A 20-year-old man who made in excess of 50 threatening calls to his heavily pregnant partner and tried to ram a car off the road has been jailed despite his lawyer pleading to allow him home because he had been beaten up and constantly threatened in jail.
However, he will only spend another two to three weeks in jail because of time already served.
Radiator repairer Kody Clifton Sydney Greeks was sentenced to a total of 10 months jail on a raft of charges when he appeared before Judge Pat Grace in Masterton District Court recently.
Greeks had previously pleaded guilty to one charge each of male assaults female and dangerous driving, two of wilful damage and three of breaching of a protection order relating to a number of incidences on December 1 and 3 in the Wairarapa and Palmerston North. He perforated his partner's ear drum during one assault.
Defence lawyer Ian Hard said Greeks had already spent four months in jail on remand, the equivalent of a eight and a half month jail term and asked for him to be given a short jail sentence so he could return to his partner, child and and job.