Her 19-year-old boyfriend tried to fight Chandler off, but Chandler punched him several times before leaving the scene.Ĭhandler got into a London-style taxi, but during the journey home on the Mitchell Freeway he started kicking the perspex screen between him and the driver and a window, and it eventually smashed. They stopped to help but he turned on them, grabbing the woman by the throat and forcing her onto the ground, the District Court was told. Matthew Richard Chandler was off-duty from his job as a constable with the Central Metropolitan Region in December 2015 when a young couple discovered him sobbing on a street in Northbridge one night.
