An Aussie real estate boss lived a life of luxury overseas with his glamorous wife...
but he's been jailed for a despicable act behind closed doors at his French home Damian Carew fronted a court in France this week Melbourne man was a high-flying property entrepreneur READ MORE: Aussie found drunk in Paris carrying $335,000 By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:14, 8 October 2024 | Updated: 06:14, 8 October 2024 e-mail A jet-setting Australian real estate executive who repeatedly bashed his Russian wife during drunken arguments in their French home has been jailed for a year. Damien Carew, 44, twice strangled his wife Anna Polianskaya, also translated as Ana Polianski, and slammed her head into the side of a bathtub putting her in hospital, a court in Nice, France heard this week. The arguments between Carew, a graduate of Melbourne 's prestigious St Kevin's College, and his wife occurred when he returned home at the end of 2022 after spending a year in detention related to a separate money laundering investigation.
'We would be drinking all day and sometimes we would start an argument and there would be violence from me,' Carew told the court through an interpreter, The Herald Sun reported. He said the couple would argue about whose fault it was that they had lost custody of their two children, who were put into the care of Ms Polianskaya's mother after school teachers raised concerns about the couple's heavy drinking in early 2023. Following a fight in Apr.