Man sentenced to two years for common assault, intimidation and five AVO contraventions

The 28-year-old man was served with a provisional non-contact AVO in February 2019, to protect a woman he had been in a relationship with. The man is not named to protect the identity of the victim.

The first contravention took place on July 20, 2019, when the woman was walking along a street in Bourke and the man threatened to hit her in the face with a glass bottle he was holding and she took refuge inside a petrol station.

Two days later he threatened to "paralyse" her and she contacted Bourke police and showed them her phone, which had more than 200 calls from the man that were made between July 20 to 22.

The man contravened the order again by contacting the woman and staying with her in a house in Orange on May 28, 2020 and he again breached the contact provision on June 12.

On June 19 he helped the woman with her groceries in Orange but then got drunk at her house and became argumentative. The woman cowered in the corner of the living room and escaped by breaking a window.

On June 30, 2020, the woman was walking along Jilba Street when the man arrived in a taxi with their child, which he had collected from her sister's house without notifying the victim.

They started to argue and the man took the child's fold-up pram from the boot of the taxi and threw it. The pram struck her in her abdomen, winding her and causing pain in her side.

Solicitor Charlotte Pascall said the man was released on parole for another offence on January 25 this year but he has been back in custody since July 11 to serve the balance of parole.

"He was homeless, he was couch surfing, he simply had nowhere else to go," Miss Pascall said.

"At the time he was heavily using methamphetamine, methadone and Fentanyl."

She said the man started using cannabis when he was 12 years old and moved on to methamphetamine when he was 13 or 14.

Magistrate Elizabeth Ellis gave him a total jail sentence of two years, which was back-dated to September 4 for common assault, intimidation and five AVO contraventions.

The sentence included a 15-month non-parole period giving him a potential release date of December 3, 2021.

A five-year non-contact AVO was also made and Ms Ellis gave the man an 18-month Commonwealth recognizance order, similar to a suspended sentence, and ordered him to pay $500 for using a mobile phone to menace and harass the victim on July 20, 2019.