Robert Karl Huber will spend at least nine years behind bars for the manslaughter of his partner. Photo: Supplied/AAP PHOTOS

A "pure evil monster" whose fatal beating of his disabled partner left her almost unrecognisable has been jailed for at least nine years.

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Robert Karl Huber, 69, was often violent with his partner Lindy "Kimmy" Lucena, 64, during their five-year relationship before he killed her on January 3, 2023.

The couple had been staying in the courtyard behind a Salvation Army store at Ballina in the NSW Northern Rivers region after becoming homeless following floods in

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