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Subscriber only Her back to a courtroom wall, the wife of a convicted thug started crying as her husband was led away from his young family to a prison cell for a cowardly attack that left a man with permanent injuries. Benjamine Anthony Hughes s promise as a talented AFL player once drafted into the top league had been betrayed by his inability to control his violence when on the drink. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court on Friday to causing grievous bodily harm to financial services industry executive Martin Culnane at a Noosa holiday home in the early hours of November 25, 2018.