AN Asian man with martial arts knowledge has been told he must abide by Australian laws after a violent attack on his wife.
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Minh Thien Bui, 35, was completely unremorseful after kicking his wife in her stomach and pushing her into a wall as a way of teaching her a lesson.
The couple’s daughter walked into the room after the attack and she asked Bui why he had hit her mum.
“Because your mother is naughty,” he replied.
Facts tendered to Albury Local Court show that the Springdale Heights man had been arguing with his wife before the incident on June 19.
Bui had been sitting at a table in their home, drinking a Crown Lager, as his partner sorted through washing in their garage.
He picked up a chair and threw it in her direction in a bid to scare her.
He needs to understand what he’s doing is wrong
- Magistrate Tony Murray ordering Minh Thien Bui to comply with Australian laws
They continued to argue and he got up, kicked her in the stomach while she was sitting and used his elbow and forearm to push her into a wall.
The woman smashed her head into the wall and he pushed her in the stomach and the left side of her body.
Police arrived and Bui later said he had “no regrets”.
“I doesn’t want to hit her,” he said, “but she needs to understand that what she is doing is wrong. I hit her below a level, below the head.”
He had continued to hit the woman – the mother of his two children – until she had admitted she was in the wrong.
Bui told police he knew martial arts, pressure points in the body and what level of force to use on people.
Paramedics had attended the scene but did not find any visible signs of injury on his wife.
Bui has previously been charged with assaulting the woman and has had two apprehended domestic violence orders against him.
Magistrate Tony Murray said a report had found Bui believed he was in the right as he was the “master of the castle”.
Mr Murray said while the behaviour may have been acceptable in Bui’s culture, it was certainly not OK in Australia.
“He needs to understand what he’s doing is wrong,” he said.
Mr Murray said Australian culture was clearly different to his native culture.
Bui works as a nail technician with his wife, earning $350 a week for seven days’ work.
The court heard stresses over running the business may have contributed to the incident.
He will undergo a suitability assessment for a community corrections order.
The father of two will return to Albury court at a later date.