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MELBOURNE, May 6 (Reuters) - Australia's former world cycling champion Stephen Pate was sentenced
to a minimum eight-month jail term on Tuesday after pleading guilty to 11 charges including
assaulting his wife. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty in the Victoria County Court after assaulting
his wife twice in November last year and twice more in February this year, Australian Associated
Press reported. On one occasion Pate pulled a knife on his wife, held it to her throat and
threatened her when she tried to call police, AAP reported. Judge John Barnett jailed Pate for 20
months. Pate, who suffered depression and started drinking heavily after missing out on selection
for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has already served three-and-a-half months in jail. The court was
told Pate had been arrested last year for domestic violence and breached an intervention order by
returning to the family home in Melbourne in November to confront his wife. Pate won a sprint world
title in 1988 in Belgium.
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to a minimum eight-month jail term on Tuesday after pleading guilty to 11 charges including
assaulting his wife. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty in the Victoria County Court after assaulting
his wife twice in November last year and twice more in February this year, Australian Associated
Press reported. On one occasion Pate pulled a knife on his wife, held it to her throat and
threatened her when she tried to call police, AAP reported. Judge John Barnett jailed Pate for 20
months. Pate, who suffered depression and started drinking heavily after missing out on selection
for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has already served three-and-a-half months in jail. The court was
told Pate had been arrested last year for domestic violence and breached an intervention order by
returning to the family home in Melbourne in November to confront his wife. Pate won a sprint world
title in 1988 in Belgium.
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