"It seems you have a sense of entitlement [to bash women] because you are a male and consider yourself a superbeing to females. It has nothing to do with what you have achieved in life, the amount of help you have given other people, or what you have put back into the community.
"I would like to imagine with good rehabilitation that 'I am a male behaving as a cruel bully because women are smaller and weaker than me' attitude is changing but it isn't; you are a classic example of that," he told Pompey.
The Crown had dropped a charge of assaulting a child, Judge McGuire referred to it, saying the 2-year-old involved would be scarred for life by seeing Pompey bullying "this poor woman".
He said when Pompey began offending as a teenager his loving whanau had supported him in court, now they had deserted him because of his inability to live a proper, decent way of life.
The judge also referred to Pompey's involvement with methamphetamine.
"It is truly awful, it makes you violent and paranoid, takes away your ability to tell good from bad; your emotional development freezes over, you have the mind of a 16-year-old in a 26-year old man's body."
Referring to a letter Pompey wrote to the court, Judge McGuire said it was full of remorse that he hoped was sufficiently genuine for Pompey to make massive changes to his life.
Pompey's lawyer, Martin Hine, handed the judge certificates testifying to the number of courses Pompey had undertaken while on remand, including one entitled Try Jesus.
"It seems with your dreadful track record you may well need spiritual help, if you take it I commend you for it," the judge told Pompey.
The summary of facts outlined how Pompey had repeatedly attacked his ex partner.
On one occasion, he punched her in the head as he verbally abused her. Later the same day, he kicked her in the ribs and delivered more blows that left her badly bruised.
Another time he punched her in the eye "for not having any money".
Because of this she sold household items, but discovering their Nutribullet had been one of them, Pompey kicked her in the ribs and when she fell to the floor ordered her to get up before he jumped on her head. A weeK later his victim caught Pompey cuddling her friend at her home, when she questioned him he punched her again before picking up scissors and telling her he would ram them into the side of her throat.
As well as his prison term, Pompey was ordered to undertake an appropriate course available on his release, attend a psychological assessment, go to anger management and anti-violence programmes as recommended by his probation officer for up to six months after his release.
