A man contacted 11 male strangers on the internet, asking them to rape his partner and carry out other sadistic, degrading and disturbing acts upon her.
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Subscriber only HE thrust a knife at his partner in a stabbing motion while she drove them to a tavern where he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her down to his lap so he could place his hand over her mouth. The woman managed to get away, running into the tavern for help. By the time police arrived, her partner had decamped. But it wasn t long before they found him at her address two days later. Dundas Jerome Raymond Cecil, 38, pleaded guilty to many charges including common assault (domestic violence), breach a domestic violence order and obstruct police when he appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on December 14.
Sgt Janes said the woman played the pokies between 6.40pm and 6.55pm, on three different machines making two withdrawals. The court heard tavern staff were alerted to the child in the car and the duty manager took the child into their custody while waiting for police to arrive. Staff told the woman to stop playing the pokies and the woman got into an argument with the duty manager about her actions. Sgt Janes said the woman told police she had gone into the tavern to use the ATM to withdraw cash for her daughter for medication. He said she claimed she only put one note in a machine and got stuck in a win pattern .