Tony Veitch: the allegations

Sports broadcaster Tony Veitch was arrested on Monday and appeared in Auckland District Court charged with six counts of assault on a female and one of injuring with reckless disregard. The details of the alleged assaults against his former partner Kristen Dunne-Powell have now been released as follows:

• Forcing Dunne-Powell against a wall and kicking her in the leg as she tried to get away in 2002;
• Grabbing Dunne-Powell by the shoulders and throwing her on a bed before throwing a glass of water in her face at a holiday home in Mangawhai, Northland, between April 14, 2003 and April 9, 2005;
• Throwing Dunne-Powell on a hotel bed before straddling her and pinning her to the bed in Rotorua in June 2005;
• Kicking Dunne-Powell in the leg and thigh so hard at their St Heliers, Auckland home in August 2005 that she required physiotherapy because she had trouble walking;
• An assault on Guy Fawkes' Night in November, 2005;
• Kicking Dunne-Powell in the legs in December 2005 as Veitch removed her from his house;
• Kicking her so hard in a January 2006 incident that vertebrae in Dunne-Powell's back were fractured.