FORMER Wagga amateur boxer Leroy Fisher was once considered an Olympic Games prospect but now he languishes in jail, sentenced for what a judge described as humiliating and degrading sexual assaults of a woman two years ago.
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Fisher was 21 and living in the Wollongong suburb of Berkeley in 2015 when he detained a woman in his home for nine hours.
Fisher handcuffed the woman before repeatedly assaulting her in ways the woman told the court earlier this month made her believe she was going to die.
“The offences had different and discrete elements but many of the aspects that aggravate each are part of a common theme – humiliation and degradation of his victim,” said Judge Andrew Haesler in Wollongong District Court in sentencing Fisher for four offences.
Fischer was given an aggregate jail sentence of eight years and five months, with five years’ non-parole backdated to July 21, 2015, when he went into custody.
Fisher will be eligible for parole on July 20, 2020.
