Another article on his previous offence:
http://pakenham.starcommunity.com.au/gazette/2009-12-02/seven-years-for-attack/
[h=2]Seven years for attack[/h]
PAKENHAM man Scot Alan Murdoch has been sentenced to seven years’ jail for a brutal assault on a Berwick woman that left her in hospital for six weeks.
In her Supreme Court ruling last Wednesday, Justice Betty King said the 2006 attack had done ‘untold damage’ to the victim and her family.
The court heard that Karen Cheeseman, then known as Karen Duker, was a single mother living on the disability pension when she joined the phone chat line Hot Gossip on 25 September 2006.
At about 2.45am the next day, Murdoch left a message for Ms Cheeseman and the pair exchanged several messages before Ms Cheeseman arranged to collect Murdoch from the Bi-Lo car park.
After arriving at Ms Cheeseman’s Berwick home, they each drank a vodka and passionfruit UDL.
Addressing Murdoch, Justice King said: “After being with Ms Cheeseman for an hour or so, you then began to move around the house and it appeared, Ms Cheeseman said, to her that you were checking out each of the rooms.”