A RIVERINA man has been sentenced to jail for a string of violent offences, including throwing toilet water at correctional officers who tried to help him with an injury.
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Darren Alan Walton, of Mirrool, had pleaded guilty to two counts each of assaulting an officer and intimidating intending to cause fear.
The 37-year-old also pleaded guilty to threatening injury to someone, possessing a prohibited weapon without a permit and breaching an apprehended violence order.
He appeared via videolink in Wagga Local Court on Friday when magistrate Imad Abdul-Karim handed him a maximum of 12 months for those offences.
Court documents state on April 18 when Walton was in a Wagga holding cell, two correctional officers entered because they saw he had a cut to his forehead.
Walton threw toilet water at one of them before he put a box full of tissues into the toilet bowl then threw it at the other officer.
In another incident, Walton went to a house on March 31 in Temora where his partner was staying overnight.
There, he got into an argument with her and another woman before pulling out a rod-like weapon from his pocket and threatened to hit his partner.
The other woman went into her bedroom to call triple zero before Walton grabbed her phone and smashed it, court documents state.
He also threatened her, saying: "If anyone finds out, I will be back to burn the house down with you and your kids in it."
On April 18, police caught him entering a business in Junee where he damaged a truck battery. Police also found a 20cm flick knife in his underwear.
In court on Friday, defence solicitor John Weir said the assaults on the officers were "low-end criminal offences" that did not need significant time [in jail].
However, magistrate Imad Abdul-Karim said the assaults and the threat to injure his partner were serious offences.
Mr Abdul-Karim said Walton's offences against his partner were committed when he was on a community-based sentence for previous offences against her.
Walton had also pleaded guilty to one count of having goods in personal custody suspected of being stolen and two counts of driving while having illicit substances in his system.
He was fined $700, disqualified from driving for six months and put on a 12-month community corrections order for those offences.
He was also convicted but had no further penalty imposed for entering private land without a lawful excuse, to which he pleaded guilty.
Walton will be eligible for early release in January 17 next year having been in custody since April 18.
