Another eleven people were charged with domestic violence related offences in the Tweed Byron Police District last week, the same figure as the week before.
Last week’s charges included seven for assault, three for contravening Apprehended Violences Orders, one for damaging property and one for intentionally distributing an intimate image without consent.
They accounted for more than a quarter of all 39 people arrested and charged at Tweed Heads and Byron Bay Police Stations in the same week to Friday 7 November.
Upper Main Arm man sentenced to eight months’ jail
Meanwhile, police said a 33-year-old Upper Main Arm man appeared in court charged with stalking and/or intimidation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He was sentenced to eight months’ jail, with officers saying the time in jail was to be supplemented by an eighteen-month community corrections order.
A 32-year-old Bilambil Heights man who appeared in court charged with using a carriage service to menace and contravening an Apprehended Violence Order was sentenced to an intensive corrections order for seventeen months.
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