A Ballarat jury has found a man guilty of raping his former partner after bashing her unconscious at his Alfredton home in 2017.
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A County Court jury of five men and seven women delivered a verdict on Wednesday afternoon following almost two days of deliberations.
The man, who The Courier has decided not to name to protect the victim’s identity, was found guilty of rape, false imprisonment and making a threat to kill.
The charges, along with one count of intentionally causing injury which the accused admitted, related to an incident at the man’s Alfredton home on September 8.
While his former partner was visiting him, the accused man bashed her with a metal bar, tried to rip her teeth out and tried to rip her breast off.
The bloodied, bruised and swollen victim fled to a neighbour’s house for help while her attacker went to the supermarket to buy her icy poles – the only thing she could eat.
She later told a nurse she had been in and out of consciousness during the ordeal and could not remember a sexual assault, but she said she had vaginal pain.
The man was acquitted of kidnapping his former partner on September 8, and perverting the course of justice and false imprisonment in 2016.
Dressed in his prison uniform, he did not react while the verdicts were announced.
The man had already pleaded guilty to two counts of intentionally causing injury relating to an incident involving the same complainant in February 2016.
He was remanded in custody until a plea hearing in Melbourne on March 29.
Judge Frank Gucciardo thanked the jury for their assistance during the seven-day trial.
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