A Napier man has been found guilty on 13 out of 28 charges of violence and sexual abuse against his partner over two-and-a-half years.

The jury has just delivered their verdicts against Timothy Hebberley at the High Court in Napier, after more than 25 hours of deliberations.

All verdicts were unanimous.

The jury has decided Hebberley’s guilty of 13 charges including male assaults female, injuring with  intent to injure, sexual violation, threatening  to kill, dislocating her hip joints, and two counts of threatening to do grievous bodily harm.

He was found not guilty of 15 charges of including burning her with a cigarette  lighter, locking her in a washhouse with  a dangerous dog, branding her with a  hot wire, burning her with candle  wax, rape, intentionally dislocating her shoulders and kidnapping,