Fijian man to be deported for strangling wife, hitting son with computer keyboard

Aman will be deported to Fiji – after he has been released from a Kiwi prison – for strangling his wife, biting her until her lips bled and hitting his son in the face.

The decision was made although he may not be able to access the medical treatment he needs if deported.

He also argued he is a hard worker who is “willing to take on the kind of unskilled work that New Zealand citizens or residents are not willing to undertake.”

Stuff has chosen not to name the man in order to protect the identities of his wife and children.

His case was revealed in a recent ruling from the Immigration and Protection Tribunal.

It showed he has been in New Zealand since 2008 on a series of visitor, work and interim visas.

His wife and their three children – a daughter and two sons – also live here.

The tribunal heard the man was first convicted of assaulting his wife in 2011 and was sentenced to 50 hours’ community work.

According to a written statement, he admitted punching his wife after losing his temper.

A conviction for violence would usually mean any subsequent applications for visas are declined.

However, Immigration New Zealand granted the man a series of character waivers to allow him to stay in the country. In May 2018, the tribunal heard, an argument broke out between the man and his wife after he accused her of cheating on him.

According to the police summary of facts, he sat on her stomach and strangled her with both his hands, yelling he would kill her and “all of them.”

The man only stopped after the couple’s daughter intervened.

The same month, the man hit his then-19year-old son in the face with a computer keyboard, causing two cuts.

In October 2018, the man repeatedly bit his wife’s lips, causing cuts and swelling, after again accusing her of cheating.

In April of this year, the man was convicted of assault, threatening to kill, and two counts of injuring with intent to injure. He was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison and will be eligible for parole in May 2021.

Those convictions mean the man is liable for deportation. However, he argued he has coronary heart disease, for which he has undergone surgery, and needs to stay in the country to access health care.

Those convictions mean the man is liable for deportation.

However, he argued he has coronary heart disease, for which he has undergone surgery, and needs to stay in the country to access health care.

He also argued deportation would separate him from his family.

But the tribunal said there was no evidence the man’s heart disease couldn’t be adequately treated in Fiji.

There was also “nothing to indicate that his wife and children wish to have any further contact with him” – the wife has a protection order against him, and none of his children appear to have visited him in prison.

The tribunal declined the appeal, meaning the man will be deported at the end of his sentence.