Man Guilty Of Assault

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 3

Man Guilty Of Assault

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 5. A woman alleged in (he Magistrate’s Court in Auckland today that after knocking her out with a blow on the head from a hammer, Kenneth Mervyn McKay beckoned her when she recovered and said: “Come and get another one.” McKay, a 36-year-old factory hand, denied a charge of assaulting the woman at her home on February 17. He was convicted by Mr L. G. H. Sinclair. Detective-Sergeant E. R. Hutchinson prosecuted for the police, and McKay was represented by Mr J. R. Aubin. The woman said she had been friendly with McKay for about nine months. On the evening of February 17 he called at her house.

After talking with him for some time and having a cup of coffee, she left the room

to go to her children's room. “He followed me into the passage and hit me on the head with an iron hammer. 1 dropped to the ground,” said the woman. “When I came to 1 saw him with the hammer above my head. He beckoned and said, 'Come here and get an- ] other one.’" ■ She said McKay then asked her if she would marry him then ■ )“I said yes. and he seemed td come to his senses.” , The witness was later ex j amined by a doctor and sent to hospital, where she remained for one day. She said she had been hit with the handle of the hammer. McKay, in evidence, said that when he went to the complainant’s home he walked in the back door and saw her lying on the floor of the passage. McKay said: “She was coming to and she said: ‘What did you do it for, love?’ 1 said: ‘Do what?’ ” At no stage, he said, had he struck the complainant, or threatened her.

Convicting McKay, the Magistrate said he believed the complainant. He remanded McKay until tomorrow for psychiatric examination and sentence. ’■