A former Miss Australia and one-time Labor politician has been found guilty of emotionally abusing and intimidating her ex-husband.
Kathryn Isobel Hay, 49, won the National Procession Crown in 1999 and was also Miss Tasmania in the same year.
She served for four years in the parliament of the island state from 2002 as a member of work in Bas's voters.
From 2014 to 2022, Hay had not guilty of one counting of emotional abuse or intimidating the then partner Troy Shane Richardson.
She was found guilty of the Launceston Magistrates Court on Wednesday, with the majority of the details on the indictment proven.
Richardson told the hearing in 2024 Hay was verbally offensive, hit him, threatened him every week and hit him several times with a shoe.
Mr. Richardson said that the couple met at a dog show in 2009 and married in 2012.
He told the court that their relationship was 'completely rosy', but things deteriorated around 2013 after the birth of their second child.
Miss Australia 1999 Kathryn Hay has been found guilty of intimidating her ex-husband
During a return trip to Tasmania, Mr. Richardson said that Hay threw a bowl of grain at him and called him useless, pathetic and AC ***.
“She would often make a point to have an argument in public to make me feel low,” he said.
Mr. Richardson said he had been left with a black eye after Hay beat him in 2020.
In 2021, Hay was taken into police detention because he would have beaten Mr. Richardson because he drives around a corner too quickly, which led to an order of family violence against her.
Mr. Richardson said Hay later demanded that he had withdrawn the order and spent 79 minutes on the phone with him who told him what to write.
Hay denied physically offensive, but occasionally admitted to use a bad language because the relationship became toxic.
She told the court that it was possible that Mr. Richardson sent messages to himself because he had access to her passwords and Facebook account.
Kathryn Hay (far left in 2007 with other previous winners of Miss Australia) will be convicted next month
Hay also accused Mr. Richardson of financially checking, something he denied.
Hay's bail was continued. It is expected that she will be convicted on April 17.
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