Wife-killer Cullen's violent past

CONVICTED WIFE KILLER CHRISTOPHER CULLEN'S VIOLENT PAST

1983

- At 20, convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for punching the manager of a pub house in the face in the UK after being asked to leave

1986

- Convicted of another assault, this time after he kicked someone in the face

- On remand at London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison, he punched and kicked and jumped up and down on a prison officer. Convicted for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and given a suspended sentence

1987 - Headbutted and punched his employer, who owed him money, at a building site in Ilford, north-east of London. Fractured the employer's cheekbone and nose. While being held in a detention room, he headbutted and punched a police officer

1994 - Sentenced to two years in prison for grievous bodily harm in Essex, where he struck the victim in the face with a knuckle duster. The victim sustained a smashed upper jaw and needed surgery

2015 - Found guilty of killing his estranged wife Victoria Comrie Cullen in January 2014 in Sydney's south. Comrie, 39, suffered a broken nose, bruised eyes and 18 sharp force injuries, including two neck wounds that had cut down to her vertebrae.