The horrific journey would leave the pregnant woman with cuts, abrasions and bruises all over her body, including her face, jaw, scalp and neck. Lam Kee Shau, a 38-year-old chef, repeatedly punched his wife as she was driving. Bleeding, the woman turned into a Caltex petrol station in Glen Waverley. But there the attack continued. Horrific footage of the attack was played to the court, showing Lam Kee Shau dragging his wife along the ground by her hair, before stomping on her head.

Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video She coils into a ball to protect her unborn child as her husband rains blows on her body. She was five months pregnant at the time. The woman manages to make her way to the front door of the service station, but Lam Kee Shau runs up behind her and punches her in the head three times, before taking her by the hair and throwing her to the ground again. Didier Lam Kee Shau stomped on his wife's head outside the petrol station. At one point, the woman picks up cardboard sign and tries to shield herself from her husband, but he grabs it out of hands and the attack continues.

Eventually the woman makes it inside, and cowers behind an ice-cream fridge. Once the woman was inside the petrol station she hid behind a fridge. Her husband, unable to get into the service station because the attendant locks the doors, returns to their car and then crashes it into the building, shattering the glass windows and destroying the front counter. The force of the crash sends the worker flying backwards. His wife narrowly escapes the full impact of the crash and manages to stumble to the back of the shop.

The shop after Lee Kam Shau drove his car through the front. Lam Kee Shau has been in jail since his arrest and saw his child for the first time at a plea hearing earlier this month. It is not known whether the baby suffered any injuries in the assault. Lam Kee Shau pleaded guilty to recklessly causing injury in a plea deal with prosecutors. This week, he was jailed for five years and ordered to serve three years and six months before he is eligible for parole. Judge Richard Smith said he was limited by a maximum penalty of five years' jail for the charge, but found the assault was prolonged and vicious.

"The fact you have only been charged with recklessly causing injury should not mask the seriousness of your offending," Judge Smith told Lam Kee Shau. A magistrate previously questioned why prosecutors accepted the man's plea to recklessly causing injury given the nature of the attack. Lam Kee Shau also pleaded guilty to reckless conduct endangering life. In sentencing, the judge told Lam Kee Shau: "This was a lengthy, repetitive and violent bashing of a woman who was considerably smaller and of much lesser strength than you. "She was the softest of targets for your aggression.