A pregnant mum has been captured on CCTV being brutally bashed before her tormentor crashed his car through the front of a service station as she made her escape.
Didier Lam Kee Shau, 38, of Coburg in northern Melbourne knew his victim was 18 weeks pregnant when he bashed her.
The sickening attack happened in the early hours of September 17 last year after the pair attended Shau's niece's first communion celebration in Carrum Downs - in Melbourne's southeast.
Didier Lam Kee Shau drove his car into a Caltex service station after savagely bashing a woman up outside. The attendant was injured in the attack, which lefts tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the business
Didier Lam Kee Shau was captured on CCTV from the Caltex service station punching, dragging and kicking his victim. She escaped into the service station before Shau drove his car into it
Carnage: A Honda SUV driven by Didier Lam Kee Shau remained lodged in the service station after he drove it at speed into it. Shau had bashed a pregnant woman outside moments earlier
Daily Mail Australia has been asked by the County Court of Victoria not to identify the woman, whom was known to Shau - a qualified chef.
Harrowing CCTV footage taken from the Caltex service station on Blackburn Road, Glen Waverley, caught the woman's desperate attempts to escape Shau.
Footage shows the car door fling open and the bloody woman run for the service station doors.
'Help me please,' she shouted.
The attendant would later tell police he was in such a state of panic that he couldn't remember the triple-zero number to call police.
Video captured Shau repeatedly punching the woman to the ground before dragging her by the hair and pounding her head into the ground repeatedly.
At one point she is seen rolling into a ball and trying to protect her baby.
'I'm probably going to die today,' she thought.
Eventually, the attendant managed to open the door and she staggered inside.
Shau tried to get in as the battered woman crawled to a fridge to hide.
He is seen walking back to the Honda SUV where he gets in and lines up the attendant's booth.
Shau puts his foot down and crashes the car through the wall, sending the attendant flying back into cupboards in an explosion of debris.
The pregnant woman stumbles onto the floor of the service station near an ice-cream fridge after being savagely bashed outside. Didier Lam Kee Shau drove his car into the servo moments later
Didier Lam Kee Shau drags the pregnant woman along the road before repeatedly stomping on her head. When she escaped inside he returned to his car and drove it through the service station
Miraculously, he sustained only minor injuries.
When police arrested Shau he refused to be breathalysed.
He claimed he couldn't remember any of what he'd just done to the woman, or the $93,954 worth of damage he did to the service station when he crashed his car into it.
The court heard Shau started drinking whiskey earlier in the evening, and by midnight he was drunk and angry.
The woman would later tell police she wasn't quite sure why, but she saw his relatives trying to
