<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains details some readers might find confronting.</span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Perth mother has fled the country over fears her and her children's lives are at risk from a serial domestic violence offender.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Chloe Wright's former partner Guy Leslie Cramp was granted bail by a Western Australia court despite pleading guilty to an attack that was caught on CCTV and left the mum-of-three with black eyes and a broken nose.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wright was repeatedly punched in the face and thrown to the ground in one incident by her then partner, while he held their nine-week-old baby in his arms.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-hills-bushfire-evacuation-routes-blocked-as-roads-closed/03bffab6-ab91-496a-81bf-2738b64a3846"><strong><span>Evacuation routes blocked amid Perth bushfire emergency</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You can't do anything when someone is holding your newborn," she told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The vicious assault, which started in the backyard and was caught on camera, then continued inside her home.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/domestic-violence-perth-mother-flees-overseas-from-western-australia-after-ex-partner-released-on-bail/ba0fcd80-5659-4da4-bcd2-ee0ff435dfca" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Inside my nose is collapsed and I can't breathe properly now," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Cramp pleaded guilty to the attack and had been behind bars since his arrest until last month, when a WA court granted him bail.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wright said that decision forced her to flee the country with her three kids.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I will not come back to Australia until he is sentenced, I will not become another statistic," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The magistrate found Cramp met the exceptional circumstances needed for bail, allowing him to walk free and participate in a family violence program, which can't be done inside prison.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wright said she was left in "disbelief that someone can plead guilty, all the footage be there, pictures of my face, everything that we've been through and a judge can sit there and let him on bail".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span> "How is that possible?" she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's a sentiment echoed by opposition prevention of family and domestic violence spokesperson Libby Mettam.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"What does this thug actually have to do to be locked up?" she asked.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutors opposed his bail, telling the magistrate Cramp had "a significant history … of violence … including assault … disorderly behaviour and … occasioning bodily harm".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police argued that "he posed a risk to the victim and the community at large with the risk of reoffending ... demonstrated by his history".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 15-year history includes convictions for assaulting two other women and attacking a taxi driver.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A warrant for Cramp's arrest was issued yesterday after he failed to appear in court, and the 33-year-old handed himself in this morning.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Despite the breach, tonight he's still a free man after the courts granted him bail again.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If he can do that holding our nine-week-old baby, he can do anything," Wright said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"How many women have to die?"</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><span>at</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" rel="" target="_blank" title="1800RESPECT"><strong><em><span>1800RESPECT</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>(1800 737 732). In an emergency, call Triple Zero (000).</span></em></strong></div></div>
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