NOTORIOUS Perth bikie Troy Mercanti has dramatically admitted beating his former partner over a span of 15 years, after changing his pleas midway through his trial.
Mercanti, a former senior Coffin Cheater who defected to the Finks, had denied five charges of assaulting Tammy Kingdon, the mother of his two children, during the relationship which began in 1997.
Ms Kingdon had been cross-examined by Mr Mercanti's lawyer Colin Lovitt for almost six days over her allegations that he had beaten her so badly she needed a plate in her face to fix a broken eye socket, had suffered two sets of broken ribs and had her tooth knocked out on Christmas Day 2006.
But after Mercanti's brother Michael, and then his mother Sybil, both testified the assault did take place, the West Australian District Court was told the 45 year-old had been "shaken" and was pleading guilty to four of the five assaults.
The last charge was dropped by the prosecution after a trial lasting two weeks.
Mr Lovitt requested a sentencing hearing be held on Wednesday.
The trial had been told that Mercanti's physical violence towards Ms Kingdon had started just days after they had first became involved.
He was accused of punching her in the face outside a hotel in Bunbury, leaving her with black eyes and a fractured eye socket that required a metal plate to heal.
The pair continued their relationship, and Ms Kingdon gave birth to two boys by Mercanti in the following four years.
Prosecutor Justin Whalley said Mercanti punched her again in 2002, leaving a facial cut that needed stitches, and launched a prolonged assault on Christmas Day 2006 which left her missing a tooth.
In 2011, he allegedly punched and kicked her and made her stand naked in front of their Duncraig house after an argument following a sex party involving a friend of Mercanti's.
Following an alleged beating in January 2012, when with broken ribs, she was left naked and cowering outside a neighbour's home, Ms Kingdon went to police and made a statement that stretched to 104 pages.
He had also urinated on Ms Kingdon, threatened to tie her with gaffer tape to a tree to stop her attending her sister's wedding and ordered her to lie on a dog bed and bark, the court was told.
Mr Lovitt in his cross examination, accused Ms Kingdon of being a "liar and an actress", that she was out for revenge, and also claiming she was accident prone.
Mercanti's mother, however, said she had witnessed the Christmas Day assault.
"He is my son and I know that he is not the perfect son but I love him and I can't take that feeling away ... I really don't want to be here today," Mrs Mercanti told the court.
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