AN ARMIDALE man will remain behind bars as he awaits sentencing for a domestic violence-related stabbing inside a house, last year.
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Douglas Lee Boney appeared via video link in Armidale Local Court from a Mid North Coast correctional centre where the court heard the defence would not proceed with an application to call witnesses at a committal hearing.
Instead, Legal Aid solicitor Wendy McAuliffe told the court her 42-year-old client now admitted to the offence of domestic-related reckless wounding.
Boney was arrested on November 15, last year, inside a Taylor St house where he attacked a 32-year-old woman.
Detectives maintained he stabbed the woman in the back several times after a domestic altercation broke out inside the house.
The woman was taken to Armidale hospital in a serious condition but made a full recovery.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) solicitor Luke Boenisch said based on the guilty plea, the prosecution was withdrawing charges of domestic violence-related reckless grievous bodily harm and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Mr Boenisch said charges of contravening an apprehended violence order (AVO) and common assault were related offences and would be dealt with on a certificate following sentencing for the principle offence in the district court.
He said the statement of facts were still “subject to final agreement”, and tendered draft police facts.
Sequence two contravene AVO and sequence six common assault are related offences and are subject to a 166 certificate.
- DPP solicitor Luke Boenisch
Boney now faces a maximum of seven years behind bars for the 2016 wounding inside the Armidale property.
Magistrate Michael Holmes formally committed Boney to the Armidale District Court for sentence.
“Do you want a pre-sentence report,” he asked Ms McAuliffe.
“No thanks, Your Honour,” she replied.
A sentencing hearing will be fixed after a mention of the case in Armidale in August.
“Bail not applied for, bail is refused,” Mr Holmes said.
Boney has been in custody since his arrest.
In May, Ms McAuliffe asked the court for a Section 91/93 timetable to call witnesses at a committal hearing which would determine if there was enough evidence for the accused to be committed for trial.