Premium Content Subscriber only An Emerald man, 59, who punched a louvre and stabbed a table on Christmas Day, was told he couldn’t keep relying on childhood trauma as an excuse for his behaviour. The man, who couldn’t be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Emerald Magistrates Court on May 18 to two counts of contravening a domestic violence order and one count of wilful damage (domestic violence offence). Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said the man confronted a woman, the aggrieved of a DVO, at her Emerald address about 3.30pm on December 25, telling her she shouldn’t be at the home.