‘I’m sorry I can’t be there to hold you when you cry’
Robert Tanner Banks, 31, of Fredericton, offers tearful apologies to victims, his family, ex-girlfriend whom he assaulted and his newborn son, pledging to reform and provide for tem
A Fredericton man whose life unravelled due to addiction and mental illness after he assaulted his pregnant girlfriend last fall tearfully begged the court, his family and his ex for forgiveness Wednesday.
Robert Tanner Banks, 31, appeared in person and in custody Wednesday in Fredericton provincial court for a sentencing hearing on a variety of charges.
Among the offences to which he’d previously pleaded guilty were assaulting Jessica Jones by choking and uttering threats to police officers Oct. 18; repeatedly violating no-contact orders in the days following that incident; unlawfully entering a Gulliver Drive home Oct. 24; obstructing police, fleeing from police, driving dangerously, robbing a cashier at the Boiestown Irving, damaging RCMP property and threatening Mounties, all on Oct. 26.
Court heard that last fall, Banks and Jones had been in a long-term relationship and that she was pregnant with their first child.