Woman bashed for not cooking dinner

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A man bashed his partner for refusing to cook him dinner, telling her "don't talk back to me, just do as I'm telling you to do''.

In two separate attacks the woman was punched, had a table thrown at her, was hit with a belt and had her throat and face squeezed.

Karan Bhaskran, 49, was sentenced yesterday in Rotorua District Court to nine months' supervision after previously pleading guilty to three charges of assaulting the woman with a weapon and a charge of assaulting her with intent to injure.

Judge James Weir described Bhaskran's behaviour as reprehensible and completely unacceptable.

According to the police summary of facts Bhaskran had been in a relationship with the victim for 19 years.

On September 25, the woman arrived home from work and told Bhaskran she would not cook dinner as she wasn't feeling well.

Bhaskran became angry and grabbed her hair before punching her in the side of the head, yelling: "Don't talk back to me, just do as I'm telling you to do."

The woman went to their bedroom and Bhaskran pulled the woman's leg, demanding she get up and cook dinner.

Bhaskran picked up a mirror and smashed it against the wall, causing the glass to shatter over her upper body. He wrapped a belt around his wrist and started swinging his fist with the belt and demanded she cook dinner. The woman managed to dodge most of the swings but the buckle of the belt struck her in the thigh.

The woman locked herself in the bathroom and Bhaskran tried to get in but left when he couldn't.

On October 12, Bhaskran asked the woman what she was making for dinner and she told him he would be able to as she was going to work.

In an ensuing argument he threw a small table which missed her but smashed. He then threw the broken table and hit her in the stomach.

He punched her in the head and shoulders a number of times before grabbing her around the throat and then her face and squeezing.

He picked up a kettle and struck the woman several times around her waist and shoulders.

Bhaskran's lawyer Harry Edward said Bhaskran had been through the restorative justice scheme and significant issues had been resolved.