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OUT OF CONTROLMAGISTRATE SPEAKS OUT OVER MEN ASSAULTING THEIR PARTNERS, SAYING IT’S RUINING OUR SOCIETY
By ELAINE COONEY
Domestic violence was one of
two things ‘‘stuffing up our soci-
ety’’, magistrate John Murphy
yesterday told Shepparton Magis-
trates’ Court.
‘‘One is the drug ice and the
other is domestic violence,’’ he
said. ‘‘Domestic violence is out of
control.’’
Mr Murphy heard three cases
of violence committed by men
against women in the magis-
trates’ court yesterday.
He convicted and fined a
Shepparton farm supervisor
$1500 for assaulting his partner
following an alcohol-fuelled
gambling session on the pokies
in June.
Dashnor Dajko, 38, of Granth-
orn St, pleaded guilty to aggra-
vated assault of a female.
Mr Murphy noted Dajko was
much larger than the victim, who
stood next to her attacker in
court, holding his hand through-
out the proceedings.
Police prosecutor Leading Sen-
ior Constable Kim Thomson said
on June 11, Dajko was at the
pokies on Fryers St in Shepparton
with his partner when the assault
occurred.
She said the couple went to the
bar area to order beer at 3 am,
when Dajko pushed his partner
in the face with enough force to
send her backwards.
Leading Sen Const Thomson
said he later spat in the victim’s
face. When interviewed by police,
Dajko claimed he was ‘‘joking’’.
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