Terrified Oak Flats woman pleaded with police to arrest her 'abusive' partner

But she knew it was a lot. And she knew she didn’t want to be next.

Trembling with fear and unable to stop the tears from falling, Ms Smith pleaded with officers to find her estranged and allegedly violent partner, Robert Darrell Booth, and lock him up.

“Please, please, you have to catch him, he will get me for this,” Ms Smith said, referring to her request for police intervention.

“Please don’t let him back here, please.

“There are so many women getting killed by domestic violence, I don’t want to be one of them – you have to get him.”

Ms Smith told police Booth had accused her of “sleeping around” the previous day and they had argued, prompting him to leave the house. 

But he returned just before 5am, yelling from the backyard until she woke up.

“I know he’s in there, let me in,” Booth allegedly roared as he banged on the door and windows, one of which eventually gave way.

Booth climbed into Ms Smith’s bedroom and demanding to know where “he” was.

Booth then stalked off to search the house, allegedly yelling “I know he’s in here”.

Ms Smith told officers Booth then took a shower, but made sure she remained in his sight the entire time.

However, she said she was able to send her sister an SOS text message.

“Sam, help me please, he’s going to bash me and I can’t ring the cops,” she wrote, before sending a follow up message that simply said “help me”.

Ms Smith said she deleted the messages as soon as she sent them, fearing Booth would search her phone.

Her sister arrived a short time later and Booth left the house.

Responding police noted Ms Smith was “crying and shaking uncontrollably” when they spoke with her.

Booth was arrested in mid-January but released on conditional bail that prohibited him from going within 200m of Ms Smith’s home.

He was re-arrested on Saturday after police discovered him less than 20 metres from the house.

He was refused bail in court on Sunday.