Shane Allan Wheldon has pleaded not guilty to grievous bodily harm and two counts of aggravated assault. 

On the second day of his Launceston Supreme Court trial the accused took the stand to give his version of events from April 9. 

The court has previously heard Dixon Kenneth Gray, a painter working at an Invermay house, saw Mr Wheldon come in through the side gate. Mr Wheldon said he inquired about whether someone lived at the house and then told Mr Gray he was going to jump the fence, but Mr Gray told him not to. 

Mr Wheldon said the man put his arm around my waist, turned him around and guided him back towards the driveway. Mr Wheldon claimed he saw the painter walking closely towards him in a shadow, he turned around and Mr Gray was right next to him “like he was going to attack me”.

The court heard the accused used his forearm to push Mr Gray away and the two men fell. 

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Mr Wheldon said Mr Gray was “punching me like a boxer”, despite the painter allegedly being underneath the accused on the ground. 

“I said, ‘what are you doing, mate’,” Mr Wheldon told the court. To free himself from the alleged punches of Mr Gray, Mr Wheldon said he punched him and then the painter “passed out”. 

When Mr Gray gave evidence on Monday, he told the court he did not touch Mr Wheldon and it would have been quite difficult to considering he was holding a paint bucket in one hand and paint brush in the other. 

Mr Wheldon also told the court Tasmania Police Constable Thomas Moir elbowed him several times in the back of the head when he asked for the handcuff on his left hand to be loosened. 

The accused demonstrated the way he motioned his hand towards the officer and said “he must’ve thought I was going to punch him”.

On Monday, Constable Moir told the court Mr Wheldon stood up quickly and punched him in the head multiple times as he was being handcuffed. The trial continues on Wednesday.