An octogenarian has denied attacking his cancer-suffering partner.
Standing in the dock of Newtownards Magistrates Court, 86-year-old Fedor Harvey Stewart entered not guilty pleas to each of the charges against him.
Stewart, from the Old Belfast Road in Bangor, faces charges of inflicting actual bodily harm and attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle the 84-year-old alleged victim on March 26 this year.
Previous courts have heard allegations that he left his cancer suffering partner with two black eyes when he punched her to the face.
When Stewart was initially charged, the court heard claims that he subjected his 84-year-old partner to a two-hour beating after she asked to hold his hand.
He is alleged to have boasted to police “I did it. Look at my fists - they are damaged - it was me, I did it. If she had not annoyed me I wouldn’t have had to discolour her face.”
During a bail application a prosecuting lawyer told the court how Stewart went to his GP, telling the doctor how he had “continually punched the woman in an attack that lasted over two hours.”
The police were alerted and when they went to the complainant’s home, they saw she had “significant injuries including severe bruising to her face.”
“He disclosed that she had asked to hold his hand which he responded to by repeatedly punching her in the face,” claimed the PPS lawyer.
In court today, Stewart was freed in continuing bail and ordered to come back to court for his contest on August 22.
