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Subscriber only HE thrust a knife at his partner in a stabbing motion while she drove them to a tavern where he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her down to his lap so he could place his hand over her mouth. The woman managed to get away, running into the tavern for help. By the time police arrived, her partner had decamped. But it wasn t long before they found him at her address two days later. Dundas Jerome Raymond Cecil, 38, pleaded guilty to many charges including common assault (domestic violence), breach a domestic violence order and obstruct police when he appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on December 14.