THE lawyer representing high profile Perth bikie Troy Mercanti in a domestic violence trial has had several heated exchanges in court with the alleged victim.
Mercanti, a Finks bikie who used to be with the Coffin Cheaters, is facing five assault charges from his 15-year relationship with Tammy Kingdon. He has denied all charges over the assaults, which are alleged to have taken place between 1997 and 2012 and to have caused injuries to 36-year-old Ms Kingdon including a fractured eye socket and two sets of broken ribs.
His lawyer, Colin Lovitt QC, told Ms Kingdon to be quiet and let him finish his questions when she was giving evidence via video link on the fifth day of the trial.
But she claimed the connection was breaking up and his questions were skewed in such a way that she had to clarify them before answering.
In the heated exchange, Mr Lovitt said if he gave Ms Kingdon the opportunity she would launch into a spiel that would further "twist the knife'' for his client.
He said that in her own court case over another matter, Ms Kingdon had tried to blame Mercanti for her conviction and had enlisted Mercanti's elderly mother to try to help her case.
"I didn't get a chance to blame him,'' Ms Kingdon replied. "I wish I had.''
As the confrontation escalated, Mr Lovitt snapped, ``Will you be quiet for a minute?''
He claimed that while Mercanti was in prison for another offence, she turned to prostitution and that as soon as he was released she was "back in the sack'' with him.
Ms Kingdon denied the claims of prostitution and any suggestion that she was interested in swingers' clubs.
Mercanti's face remained expressionless during the proceedings.
Ms Kingdon testified that on one occasion Mercanti told her to get on a bed and bark like a dog.
"I was scared out of my wits,'' she said.
Ms Kingdon said on another occasion they were having dinner at a restaurant when Mercanti spat his food at her.
When she tried to insist the incident happened, Mr Lovitt said perhaps if she kept yelling it people might believe her.
Mr Lovitt has argued that Ms Kingdon, the mother of Mercanti's two sons, loved their at-times kinky relationship and had rained blows on him on several occasions.
Today, Mr Lovitt tried to suggest that while Ms Kingdon was in Albany she had a phone conversation with Mercanti that was "lovey dovey'', but she chuckled and said while they did have a chat, they weren't exactly calling each other "darling''.
The trial continues.
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