Crook rammed Wodonga police car during violent crime spree

At one point during the offending last year, which occurred on parole, he dug his fingers into his partner's eye.

The Border man, who can't be named due to an order, had started dating the woman just three weeks before the attack.

She was at home in Wodonga on July 25 when he punched her in the eye, punched the top of her head, eye-gouged her, stomped all over her body and punched her in her ribs.

She begged him to stop and thought she would be killed, and would never see her children again.

The man, who has been jailed 12 times in the past 19 years, was picked up by the victim from a parole meeting on July 28.

He made threats in front of her children but she refused to tell police any details when they arrived, and again attacked her in front of her children on September 10.

Her children began crying.

He fled police while driving at Martin Park two days later, and sped at 120km/h on Melrose Drive, including on the wrong side of the road, on September 25.

He was released from NSW jail on November 6 and was picked up by the victim, and he strangled her three days later.

He rammed a police car three times on Parkland Drive on November 9 as officers searched for him.

The man was spotted driving through Wodonga on November 12 and the air wing was called in in a bid to capture him.

Wodonga detectives tried to box his car in with their police vehicle as he tried to accelerate away, scrapping the police car.

He was eventually arrested near the intersection of Cookinburra and Indigo Valley roads.

Judge Justin Hannebery recently said the man had been "obsessive, relentless and manipulative" towards his partner.

The judge jailed him for at least three years and three months, with a four-year and four-month maximum.

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