WAGGA LOCAL COURT
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THREE children were inside a Forest Hill house when Colin Haisell turned up with some mates in the early hours of the morning to mete out their own form of justice.
"There's his car, get it boys," 20-year-old Haisell called out to his crew when they descended on the house about 1.30am on February 22 last year.
The man Haisell felt was indebted to him was not at the house, but three youngsters aged between 13 months and four years were as Haisell went to the front door and said to the children's mother: "tell (the man) to pay his debts".
According to police facts tendered to Wagga Local Court on Wednesday, Haisell then threw a piece of timber that smashed a window pane.
He then went around to the back of the house where he used a baseball bat to smash the rear windscreen of the man's car.
Haisell, of Forest Hill, represented himself in court for sentencing on two counts of maliciously destroying or damaging property.
He had little to say to magistrate Michael Antrum.
"You think you are some member of some Bronx gang do you?" Mr Antrum asked Haisell.
"I think you are confusing Hollywood with reality, Mr Haisell."
Mr Antrum described Haisell's actions as a gutless act.
"Goodness knows how (the three children) feel about living in their home at the moment," the magistrate said.
Haisell was fined $550 for breaking the house window and given a four-month suspended jail sentence for smashing the car windscreen.
"I am not going to send you to prison today, but if you stuff up in the next four months you will go to jail," Mr Antrum told Haisell.