A Tolland man has been sentenced for his part in a violent Boxing Day incident that left one woman thinking she was going to die.
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Kelvin Adam Glass, 22, fronted Wagga Local Court this week to learn his fate after he and two co-offenders caused substantial damage to a house on Raye Street in the early hours of the morning.
Magistrate Christopher Halburd said Glass’s behaviour was “pretty appalling” after hearing the facts of the case.
“This must have been very terrifying for [the victim] and the other person who were in that house on this night,” Mr Halburd said.
“You were so drunk that you couldn’t stand up, and the thing about affray is it’s not just those people who are the targets, it’s the people in the other houses and the neighbouring people in that street, too.”
According to a police report written after the incident, it was shortly after midnight when Glass and his two co-offenders approached the home, which belonged to Housing NSW.
A CCTV camera captured the entire incident and showed Glass and his two co-offenders throwing bottles at the house, kicking the front door, and yelling abuse at the house and its occupants.
The footage cut out after the camera was hit by one of the offenders, and police alleged the incident only escalated after that.
“Most windows were smashed, and chairs were impaled in the fibro walls of the lounge room,” the police report read.
“The female resident was hit in the head by something when it came through the bedroom window, being thrown by one of the offenders.”
The same woman later told police she was incredibly scared during the incident and thought she was going to die.
In court, Glass’s defence lawyer, Nico Rump, said there had been ongoing tensions between his client and the victims in the lead-up to the incident.
“It was Boxing Day, and Mr Glass had a substantial amount to drink and he got caught up in this incident with the other persons involved,” Mr Rump said.
“The victim in this matter is his cousin, they’re well known to each other, and they’ve since made up.”
While Glass’s two co-offenders received community service orders for their crime, the magistrate said Glass was unfit for community service.
He was instead sentenced to seven months’ jail to be served by way of a suspended sentence in the community.
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