A Canberra man who kept his former partner under surveillance inside and outside their home, even controlling her phone, has pleaded guilty to a series of violent attacks on her.
Jamie Millard, 41, has admitted in the ACT Magistrates Court to choking his former partner Bree Myers in February and April 2018, and further assaulting her in March 2019.
The court heard the coercion and control Millard exercised over the three-year relationship included monitoring Ms Myers's mobile phone, controlling when she could leave the house and telling her what clothing and makeup she could wear.
It also included surveillance cameras inside and outside the house.
Millard had at times instructed Ms Myers to change her phone number, to prevent people from having contact with her.
Court documents revealed on one occasion Ms Myers had to get Millard to take her to the hospital, because of the pain she was suffering after being choked.
The court heard, that while there, Millard had made Ms Myers tell the staff she had put a five-kilogram weight on her neck at the gym.
Ms Myers told the court that Millard was often affected by drugs, and would be in such a psychosis there was no reasoning with him.
When queried about how one of the assaults had unfolded she said:
Millard accused ex of sleeping with someone else, court hears
Ms Myers said Millard frequently accused her of being in a relationship with someone else, and she was forced to suspend her gym membership and join an all-female gym.
Before the third assault in March 2019, court documents revealed Millard had returned home at midnight, saying he had heard Ms Myers having sex with someone else inside the house.
Court documents stated he ran through the house looking for someone who he believed was there, but only Ms Myers and her children were there.
When she tried to calm him, he shoved her against the pantry door in the kitchen, with such force she put a tooth through her lip and suffered back pain.
She was also holding her child at the time.
Ms Myers contacted a friend to call police, but when they arrived she declined to make a statement, because she was fearful of Millard.
She eventually made a statement after fleeing the ACT.
Millard pleaded guilty to the four charges on the final day of a hearing into the case.
He will be sentenced in September.
