By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A PAKENHAM man, who bashed his partner in a park, has threatened to throw two large rocks at a Good Samaritan’s car.
Christmas John Jock, 21, struck his partner in the cheek outside his parents’ Pakenham house about 8am on 15 August after accusing her of having an “intimate relationship” with another man, Dandenong Magistrates’ Court heard.
The victim fled to a nearby reserve where she was caught by Jock and struck again with a fist to her face, police prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Tracey Arnold said.
The blows caused grazing, dark markings and pain to the victim, Leading Sen Const Arnold told the court.
A male onlooker intervened in the assault, pulling the victim away for refuge in his car as Jock refused to let go of her jacket.
Jock picked up two large rocks and approached as if he’d hurl them through the car’s windows, the court heard.
The Good Samaritan plucked one of the rocks from Jock, who continued to hold the other as he yelled abuse at his partner.
Jock later told police “I wasn’t happy with her”.
“I didn’t want him to take my girlfriend.”
The accused was also charged over kissing the back of a female passenger on a Pakenham-bound train near Dandenong on a late night in March.
Jock also sparked a fracas between up to six people at Pop Up Park, Dandenong, in October when he argued with a person protected from him by an intervention order.
His lawyer told the court that Jock’s offending had a limited history and was partly caused by alcohol abuse.
The accused drank full bottles of Wild Turkey bourbon up to four times a week, the lawyer said.
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen sentenced Jock to 12 days’ imprisonment – time that had already been served in remand custody.
“The problem for you, Chris, is your drinking. You write yourself off completely.
“(In court two weeks ago) you were all over the shop. You were just talking all the time, and I wasn’t sure what you were saying.
“You just can’t drink at all.”
Mr Vandersteen ordered Jock to come back to court on 11 December as part of the accused’s ongoing community corrections order.
“My aim is to keep you on this corrections order. But if there’s any breaches in the family violence intervention order you will spend longer and longer (in custody).”
