Qld: Man thrown over 4-metre balcony by protective lover

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-2009
Qld: Man thrown over 4-metre balcony by protective lover

By David Barbeler

BRISBANE, Feb 3 AAP - A man was thrown over a four-metre-high balcony after refusing
to leave an apartment until he'd had sex with the tenant's partner, a court has been told.

Steven Bartley, 49, of Mooloolaba, pleaded guilty to committing one count of grievous
bodily harm - after the charge was downgraded from attempted murder - to Christopher Steven
Jones, 34, in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Bartley was sentenced to two and a half years prison, with his sentence to be suspended
after six months, of …