A Lake Macquarie man who punched a woman in the face in a bedroom has narrowly avoided jail, with a magistrate saying the 46-year-old could have killed her.
Toronto Local Court heard on Tuesday that Justin William Elphick twice shoved the woman off her feet at his Glendale home in the early hours of June 3, before he stood over her and punched her in the nose as she lay prone on a bed.