A Mowbray man accused of wounding another man with a crow bar felt lost and alone when he visited the unit of his former partner, a Supreme Court jury in Launceston heard.
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Christopher Ernest Denman, 39, has pleaded not guilty to wounding Martin Mace on March 30, 2019.
The Crown alleges that Mr Denman pushed his way into the Dover Street unit of his former partner Melissa Mace and struck her brother on the left forearm with the bar causing a laceration.
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The jury, which is likely to consider its verdict on Thursday, has heard that Mr Denman and Ms Mace had a relationship which ended badly a couple of weeks before.
Mr Denman said that earlier in the day he had cracked a glass door of the unit by knocking too hard.
Under cross examination from Crown Prosecutor Emily Judd, Mr Denman denied that he was angry about the breakup when he went to the unit about 8.30pm. "I went down there feeling lost and alone," he said.
He said that he had become scared of Mr Mace about two months before.
He said he had seen Mr Mace with a crutch and an iron bar at the door.
'Why did you not turn around and run?," Ms Judd asked.
"Because he would have hit me in the back of the head," Mr Denman said.
He told the jury he had blocked about eight blows from Mr Mace. However, Mr Mace gave evidence that he was unarmed when the fight occurred.
He thought Mr Mace had run upstairs to get another weapon. He denied he ran upstairs and smashed a hole in a door with the bar.