A WARRNAMBOOL man who repeatedly assaults and threatens his former partner is behind bars again.
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Jason Mervyn Farey, 38, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week to recklessly causing injury, causing criminal damage, making a threat to kill and two counts of breach intervention orders.
The offending also breached a six-month suspended jail sentence.
Farey was imprisoned for 21 months and will have to serve a minimum 11 months before being eligible for parole.
He has already served 124 days in custody and his earliest release date is mid-May next year.
Farey and the alleged victim had been in a long-term relationship before separating in February last year.
Police said that Farey had prior convictions for breaching intervention orders nine times, had assaulted his ex-partner five times and there had been 25 reports to police of family violence involving the couple.
Magistrate John Lesser told Farey it was clear he had been involved in repeated and violent outbursts against the same victim since 2005.
He said a report indicated Farey had been frustrated with the relationship but his conduct towards the woman had been abusive and one of the offences was committed in the presence of a child.
The magistrate said the question the court had to ask was “how on earth to say to you your conduct is not appropriate and you can’t keep doing this”.
Police said that in February this year, Farey stayed at his former partner’s home with their three children while she went on an overnight trip to Ballarat to visit her father.
When she returned home, Farey threw a bike at her and rocks towards the street while their children were present.
In early June, Farey went to his former partner’s home during the afternoon smelling of alcohol while the victim was in the shower. Farey had said he would kill her, grabbed her in a headlock, stopping her from breathing and smashed her head into a shower.
He only stopped when a child came into the room. When another child tried to ring 000, Farey took the phone from the child.
Farey had also returned to the home on June 14 and damaged the woman’s car by kicking it.
Defence counsel Michael Turner said Farey suffered a depressive condition.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Sandra Skilton said Farey had a long history of violent offending and had breached almost every court order he had been placed on since 1992.
