Jason Leonard Ryan, 33, of Henry’s Sawmill Road, Nullawarre, was said to have imposed his will on the woman and controlled her through fear. 

Warrnambool policeman Senior Constable Greg Kew, of the south-west family violence unit, said Ryan and the victim had been in a turbulent relationship for nine years which had resulted in numerous domestic violence reports to police.

Police said that on June 24 Ryan punched his partner to an eye during an argument.

On August 1 there was another incident involving the same woman and it was suggested Ryan deliberately turned off his partner’s alarm which she had set to go to work — something he had done in the past.

Ryan then yelled abuse at her while she was trying to get their children ready for kindergarten and school. 

He also spat at her, choked her and threw a kettle of hot water at her, causing two splash burns to the woman’s right arm.

The woman went to a doctor four times after the burns became infected. Ryan told police the burns were suffered at work, a claim denied by the woman’s employer.

He also sent 75 text messages and tried to ring his partner 11 times in 24 hours, starting on August 31, in breach of an intervention order.

Ryan pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to possessing cannabis, failing to answer bail and two counts each of recklessly causing injury and breaching intervention orders.

Magistrate Peter Mellas said Ryan had been found with a large quantity of cannabis, failed to answer bail and then committed two assaults on his partner six weeks apart before breaching intervention orders.

Ryan was jailed for 12 months with six months to serve before being eligible for parole. 

His previously suspended jail sentence was also activated but he will serve it alongside the new jail term.

He has already spent 12