Ex-Boxer Avoids Jail After Brutal Domestic Attack

EX-BOXER AVOIDS JAIL AFTER BRUTAL DOMESTIC ATTACK

A man who was described as a former “champion boxer” punched his partner repeatedly on the head during a brutal domestic assault in Stirling.

Joseph Stewart (50), launched his “sustained attack” on the woman at their home in Craigforth Crescent on November 17 last year, Stirling Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.

He also claimed he couldn’t even remember the assault as he had been drinking heavily before the incident.

But Sheriff Wyllie Robertson told him that he simply didn’t believe that.

Stewart, however, avoided a jail term this week when he was instead placed under supervision for 18 months and ordered to carry out unpaid work in the community.

Having pleaded guilty to the assault charge last month, the matter was continued until this week for a background report to be prepared.

Sentencing, Sheriff Robertson told Stewart that he had concerns about the case, not least that he had assaulted his partner but had then told the author of the social work report that he couldn’t remember doing so.

Sheriff Robertson added: “I don’t accept that.

You recall a great deal of detail about that afternoon and simply to say that you don’t recall assaulting her doesn’t wash with me.” The sheriff said, however, that he also had to take into account the woman seemed to have “no fears about continuing the relationship.”