The 40-year-old was granted bail in Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday, despite the "grave concerns" police hold for the woman's safety.

Krishna was on remand for unrelated offences on June 16 when he was charged with common assault, four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and demand property with menace.

The allegations date back to December 2019, when the Wollongong welterweight allegedly searched the woman's phone while she was sleeping and woke her, demanding to know who she had been speaking to. According to a police account considered by the court, he pushed her against a wall before repeatedly punching her to the face and stomach and calling her a slut.

The woman was staying with her mother in Warilla that month Krishna allegedly became aggressive again, pushing her in the back so she fell through a glass bedroom window and cut her hand.

The woman also alleges Krishna grabbed her by her ponytail and slammed her head into the gearstick of his car after the pair argued while driving at Balgownie in January last year. As she went to confront him - "what the hell?" - he allegedly punched her to the face and hit her to the left side of her face.

After another argument at Krishna's Balgownie house in February last year, he allegedly grabbed the woman by her shirt and punched her to the face, telling her, "I am going to kill you one day".

The pair were living in homeless accomodation by April, when they had a verbal argument that allegedly turned physical, with Krishna allegedly landing punches to the woman's head, stomach and ribs. The woman says she later rang him and asked him to take her to the hospital because she was losing feeling in her right hand, arm and leg.The woman told medicos she had been assaulted by a stranger while walking on the street.

Opposing bail on court on Tuesday, police prosecutor Sgt Davis handed up photographs the woman took, showing her injuries.

"Just to have a look at some photographs and see that they're not trivial injuries," Sgt Davis said. "We have grave concerns for her welfare if the accused is released from custody."

Krishna's defence lawyer highlighted the worsening coronavirus clusters in the state's prisons. He said Krishna and his cellmate had been confined to their cell for five days straight.

Krishna was granted bail to live at a Belmore address. He must abide by a strict curfew and cannot come within 20kms of Wollongong. He is to abstain from drugs and alcohol and submit to any testing.

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