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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Tim Piccione

Canberra home builder admits to assaulting 8-month-pregnant wife

A Canberra home builder has admitted to repeatedly assaulting his ex-wife, including when the woman was eight months pregnant and he described their unborn child as "that little c--- inside of you".

"I rule the roost of this house, you should worship the f---ing ground I walk on ... you're a mutt, I'm the boss," Brendan Lionel Howe told the "acutely vulnerable" mother during a drunken rage.

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