AN EXETER man who fought a furious battle with his former boss over money in a remote logging coupe near Lake Leake was sentenced to a wholly suspended nine-month jail sentence.
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Kent Matthew Hayes, 39, was found guilty of assaulting Raymond Charles Davis at Lake Leake on October 9, 2019, by pushing him, holding him on the ground, by punching him to his head a number of times, by pulling the jumper he was wearing tight around his neck by grabbing his hair and pulling his head backwards.
The jury heard that Mr Davis suffered a fractured left eye socket and displaced cheekbone arch and fractured bone next to his eyebrow and a cut.
Hayes and Mr Davis formerly worked together as treefallers and at the time of the assault was owed about $12,500.
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Justice Michael Brett said he found accurate the complainant's evidence about the circumstances of the assault but said he was generally unreliable and evasive about the context of the dispute.
He said Hayes frustration boiled over and he jumped onto the log and pushed him off causing him to strike the ground. He said he had punched him three times.
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Nick Clark
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
