Court told of boyfriend’s shotgun rage

A SOUTHERN Tasmanian woman has told a Hobart court she was terrified when her then-boyfriend woke her up in the middle of the night, assaulted her and threatened her with a sawn-off shotgun.

Dion Brian Lumley, 28, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault.

The alleged victim yesterday told a Supreme Court jury she was asleep when Mr Lumley woke her up by tapping on their bedroom window about 1am on March 29, 2015, at Bridgewater.

“He was quite distressed, he said that he had to get away because the cops were after him, and he had a gun in his hand,” the woman said.

She said she let Mr Lumley into the house and that he told her to hurry up and get dressed.

“He was yelling at me, telling me to f…ing hurry up … I was terrified of him,” she said.

The woman said Mr Lumley was violent towards her and threatened to shoot her.

“He put the gun into my mouth, he was saying he was going to f…ing shoot me and he was trying to force it into my mouth.”

The woman said she and Mr Lumley then left the house and were walking towards a friend’s house.

She said while they were on there way to that house, Mr Lumley pushed her against a fence and again threatened her with the gun.

“I remember telling him just to get it over with, just pull the trigger,” she said.

Mr Lumley’s lawyer, Craig Rainbird, said “just about everything” alleged by the prosecution was in dispute, “particularly what occurred between [the woman] and Mr Lumley on the morning and during the day of the 29th of March 2015”.

Mr Rainbird said there were discrepancies between what the woman told ambulance officers and hospital staff immediately after the alleged attack, and what she told police the following day.

He suggested to the woman she had made false allegations about Mr Lumley to police because she had been rejected by him and wanted him locked up. The woman denied this. The trial, before Justice Gregory Geason, continues.