Man to face Cairns court on multiple domestic violence and assault charges

A 27-year-old man is facing eight domestic violence charges after an incident south of Cairns early yesterday morning.

Police said they were called to Hill Road in Wrights Creek around 4:00am on Tuesday after a man allegedly punched and chocked a 20-year-old woman, who was known to him.

Police said the woman ran through a nearby cane field after the man allegedly armed himself with a knife and drove around the property looking for her while she hid in the cane.

The man has been charged with four counts of contravention of a domestic violence order and one count each of common assault, strangulation, assault occasioning bodily harm and unlawful stalking.

He was denied bail and is expected to appear in Cairns Magistrates Court today.