Chad Daniel Hogg, 31, was sentenced to a minimum of four years jail over two brutal ordeals involving the same young woman in 2018.The Cambridge Park man faced Penrith District Court on Friday, after entering last-minute guilty pleas to a string of charges, including intentionally choking a person with recklessness, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and detaining a person while occasioning actual bodily harm.The court heard Hogg’s first assault took place at a caravan park in Jamisontown in July 2018, with the young woman choked multiple times after he grabbed her by the throat. The woman was also slapped to the face, which caused her to fall to the floor.The woman suffered serious injuries as a result of the vicious attack, including a fractured eye socket and a suspected fractured nose.Hogg’s violence escalated in September of the same year when he kidnapped the same woman and drove her to the Gypsy Joker clubhouse in Horsley Park.Here, Hogg tied the woman to a pole out the back of the clubhouse with duct tape, before cutting off the tape some time later and choking and slapping her.He then shaved off chunks of the woman’s hair with clippers while taunting her.The ordeal came to an end when Hogg drove her to a chicken shop in Penrith and let her go.In a letter addressed to the court, Hogg described his actions as “foolish and cowardly” and apologised for his behaviour.However, the Crown Prosecutor said the letter revealed Hogg’s lack of remorse for his offending, and argued he was only sorry he was caught.“The offender demonstrates a lack of insight with respect to just how serious his offending is,” the Crown said.“His regret and remorse is derived only from being caught for his offending.“‘Foolish’ and ‘cowardly’ are words that do not describe the gravity of his offending.“The detention was extensive, the actual bodily harm occasioned was significant and the offender shaving (the victim’s) head to make her look ugly was just designed to humiliate her.”The court heard Hogg had a limited criminal history, with his offending escalating from 2012 and after a serious car accident which led to mental health issues, including severe anxiety, depression and PTSD.With time already served, Hogg will be eligible for parole as early as November 2022.



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