Fortnite addict admits to bashing his pregnant girlfriend in an attack that he accidentally live-streamed over the internet
- Luke James Munday pleads guilty to assaulting partner as he played Fortnite
- He slapped Grace Campbell, then aged 21, while he was livestreaming the game
- Mother of his two kids said he played Fortnite up to eight hours a day
- In 2017 she was convicted of assault for beating him during a fight over money
- 'Toxic relationship' locked in 'tit-for-tat' cycle, Munday's brother Daniel said
A Sydney gamer has pleaded guilty to assaulting his pregnant partner after their argument was inadvertently live-streamed as he played Fortnite.
Luke James Munday pleaded guilty to common assault on Monday before magistrate Ian Cheetham in Picton Local Court.
He was using the streaming service Twitch to broadcast his game in December 2018 when he attacked his girlfriend Grace Campbell.
Luke James Munday pleaded guilty to common assault on Monday before magistrate Ian Cheetham in Picton Local Court
Thousands of gaming fans around the world watching his popular 'MrDeadMoth' livestream saw the escalating screaming match that led to the assault.
Ms Campbell had demanded Munday end an all-day gaming binge in their Oran Park home in Western Sydney, when he snapped.
Ms Campbell threw cardboard boxes at her boyfriend and begged him to stop playing, until he got up and moved off-screen.
He was using the streaming service Twitch to broadcast his game in December 2018. Pictured: Grace Campbell
There was what sounded like a slap, followed by panicked screams from both Ms Campbell and the nearby girls aged three and two.
Concerned fans called the police and Munday ended up before the court, charged with assault.
Ms Campbell said the pair had dated for five years, and everything was fine until he got addicted to Fortnite.
She said he played the game for much of their relationship, but the addiction only gripped him in the past year.
Wearing a pale white shirt and grey trousers, with no tie or belt, Munday (pictured) made his way through the media scrum to front a magistrate at an earlier court appearance in December
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Instead of playing with his adorable children (right), Munday spent six to eight hours a day letting fans watch him game, his popularity only fuelling his addiction
Munday's game was broadcast live on the Twitch e-sports video stream (stock)
'He got famous and started playing six to eight hours a day for his fans,' she said.
'As he got more addicted he changed, he became an angry person.
'He wasn't spending enough time with the kids and it was a struggle every day to get him to leave the computer for anything.'
The incident was only the latest in a series of violent incidents and accusations that were common over the couple's 'toxic' five year relationship.
In 2017, Ms Campbell was given a 12-month good behaviour bond for repeatedly hitting Munday during a blazing argument about money.
Shocking photos obtained by Daily Mail Australia showed the injuries Munday suffered during the attack on September 8, 2017.
He was seen with hand prints on his chest, red marks on his neck and torso, and a swollen lip from where he was repeatedly struck.
The couple were locked in a tit-for-tat cycle of violence with shocking photos showing injuries Munday suffered during an attack by Ms Campbell on September 8, 2017
The argument started in the kitchen of their $530-a-week rental home in Oran Park, western Sydney, over how little money the young couple had.
Munday was an IT worker supporting her and their two toddler girls with Campbell contributing $650 a week in welfare payments.
However, this wasn't the couple's first run-in with the law. In 2015, Munday was served with an AVO after Campbell injured her hand and elbow.
On September 20, 2015, the couple were on the rocks and fighting about custody of their newborn first daughter.
Campbell was given a 12-month good behaviour bond for repeatedly hitting Munday during a blazing argument about money (injuries pictured) a year before Munday's livestreamed assault
Campbell claimed she was leaning against Munday's Hyundai Excel, which had a sticker of two stick figures having sex on its rear window, when he assaulted her, according to separate court documents.
'We were yelling and screaming at each other, then he pushed me, my elbow went through the glass,' she told police in an interview.
Munday's brother Daniel Munday, 24, said such incidents were the lowest points in the cycle of conflict they had been locked in since they began dating five years ago.
'They have a toxic relationship with so many domestics it's hard to keep track of them,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'Their arguments can be brutal and Luke has moved back to our grandparents' house numerous times afterwards.
'After a few weeks the dust settles, they patch things up and he goes back to live with her, they're good for a little bit, and then it happens again.'
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