Underfed lawyer admits beating wife
NZPA-Reuter Sydney A Sydney lawyer, charged with assaulting his wife for serving only vegetarian food, told a court he might continue to beat her until she gave him a square meal. He had lost his temper on a day that began with a breakfast of carrot juice and ended with no dinner prepared for him, he said. “This has gone on for at least six years,” Robert Lindsay Walker, aged 45,
said in a written statement. “My request for substantial food is ignored. I admit I hit my wife, and I believe it will continue,” he said. The Magistrate, Mr Roger Davey found the case proved, but did not convict Walker, who had pleaded guilty. He was released on a 12-month good-behaviour bond and told not to assault or molest his wife.
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Press, 10 January 1987, Page 9
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