A SUICIDAL Warrnambool ice junkie who bit his partner’s ear on Sunday has been jailed.
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Adam Troy Ormiston, 35, of Whitehead Court, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court to recklessly causing injury, breaching intervention orders, making a threat to kill, threatening to damage property, acting prejudicial to the good running of a jail, causing criminal damage and bail offences.
He was convicted, jailed for six months and fined $2000.
Magistrate Peter Mellas said it was time for an emphasis on protecting the victim and Ormiston had continually refused to comply with court orders.
He said Ormiston had assaulted his partner and breached court orders half-a-dozen times.
Defence counsel Xavier Farrelly said his client was using ice and had been found by a friend attempting to gas himself.
He said Ormiston became upset after hearing his partner had committed offences, which if proven would breach a suspended jail sentence.
Police said that on Sunday officers attended at Ormiston’s partner’s Dennington home. He was banned from being there as part of bail conditions.
At 11.10am officers were called back to the Dennington address and found the woman had suffered cuts and bleeding to her left ear.
The woman claimed Ormiston had jumped on her, bit her ear and was using prescription medication which was making his behaviour erratic.
At 11.40am on Monday Ormiston was arrested by police.
He was in court early last month and had sentencing deferred so a progress report into a community corrections order could be prepared for the court. That report will now not be needed.
The magistrate warned Ormiston at the time he could not have contact with his former partner and was not to drink alcohol until his sentencing hearing.
On January 2 Ormiston went to a house agitated and holding a beer stubbie and a plastic bottle he said contained chemicals. He threatened to blow up the home unless his partner came out.