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A Whitsunday man choked and assaulted his former partner after arriving home to what he claimed he believed was a home invasion.
Minimal details were read aloud during a short sentencing hearing in Mackay District Court.
The victim had arrived at Jarred Leith George Gillieâs home claiming she was returning a shifting spanner â a story Judge Julie Dick did not buy.
âThereâs a background to it, itâs not just straight up gratuitous violence that you sometimes see in these cases,â Judge Dick said, indicating she did not believe the victim had been there to return the tool.
 However Thackray was placed on two years probation and a conviction was not recorded. He will, however, be a registered sex offender. Defence barrister Stephen Byrne said his 49-year-old client relapsed into ice use following a relationship breakdown. He has completed extensive drug rehabilitation, which he considers the catalyst for his offending, Mr Byrne said. Judge Dick noted a number of recent cases while sitting in Mackay District Court where there had been a connection between ice and really quite deviant sexual behaviour . It s starting to occur to me that in some people it s a trigger for really strange sexual (behaviour), Judge Dick said, before adding, I m not saying this man.
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Subscriber only Snapchat photos have led police to uncover a father s violent choking and beating of his partner in a Mackay home. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced the Mackay District Court on Friday charged with unlawful choking or strangulation and assault causing bodily harm. Crown prosecutor Tiffany Lawrence said an argument provoked the 31-year-old man to grab his partner, whom he shared a child with, around the neck. Ms Lawrence said she tried to walk away but was pursued and choked again in an attempt to stop her actions attracting the police to their address where he was not supposed to because of a domestic violence order.