A man - later found hiding under a roll of carpet - dragged his partner around a Canberra yard in a headlock telling neighbours he was helping her walk because she was so drunk, police say.
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The 24-year-old Newcastle man faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday on allegations of assault, choking and threatening to kill his partner. He is also accused of breaching a family violence order.
The neighbours called police and were standing with the woman when the officers arrived to see swelling to her eye, scratches and blood on her face and mouth, and bruising to her arms.
The woman told police she had picked up her partner from Newcastle to stay with her for a visit in Canberra while she was house sitting for a friend when he attacked her.
She said when she tried to stop the man - who was the subject of a Victorian family violence order in relation to the same woman - strangling her, he bit her arm.
While police were speaking to the woman, the man allegedly called her every two or three minutes.
Paramedics recommended she go to hospital but she later checked herself out.
She later refused further medical assistance except for assessment by paramedics, saying she was "used to it" and that she would be fine.
The man, who has not been named to protect the identity of his partner, was arrested on New Year's Eve in Wanniassa when police found him hiding under a roll of carpet.
When questioned, the man denied memory of the events of the night before.
Magistrate Robert Cook declined to release him from custody.
He did not enter pleas and will appear in court at a later date.
