Domestic abuser: ‘This is nothing yet’

Over the next hour, Nind punched and kicked the woman, as well as squeezing her neck until she nearly passed out.

A prolonged and vicious assault by her partner left a young woman fearing she was going to die.

Kerry Nind, 23, and his partner had been in a relationship for about a year. They had 5-week-old twin daughters, and were living in a Napier flat.

On the afternoon of January 2, the woman told Nind she wanted to go for a short walk as she felt she needed a break from the twins.

Nind prevented her from leaving. They argued and the woman attempted to slap her partner across the face.

He reacted by shoving her across a doorway and telling her she wasn’t going anywhere. He grabbed her by her hair and pulled her around a room and slapped her on the face.

While she was on the floor, Nind began choking her and squeezed her neck over several minutes, making it difficult for her to breathe.

According to a summary of facts, Nind told her she was horrible and that ‘‘she had made him like this’’.

She tried to leave the room several times but was pulled backwards by her hair and prevented from leaving. Over the next hour, Nind punched and kicked the woman, as well as squeezing her neck until she nearly passed out.

At one point, Nind pulled her to the bathroom, pushed her head toward the toilet bowl and said ‘‘I may as well just kill you’’.

‘‘When the complainant looked at herself in the mirror, she was shocked at her own image. She saw her throat was covered in marks,’’ the summary said.

Later, as she fed the babies, Nind left the house. She sought help. Police officers arrived and arrested Nind a short time later.

He appeared in Napier District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to two charges of assault with intent to injure, assault with a weapon, and a representative charge of injuring with intent to injure.

Judge Geoff Rea sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment.