A 22-year-old Glen Innes man who became violently abusive when two women backed out of a sexual threesome with him has been sentenced to 18 months' jail.
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Daniel Bodsworth told the Armidale Local Court through a lawyer he wasn't thinking straight on a night he was drinking to celebrate a win on the pokies, while mourning the anniversary of the death of a family member
Magistrate Michael Holmes replied "I think his mind was occupied in a number of areas".
He agreed "impulsive" behavior was behind the crime of passion.
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At some point during a party at a Glen Innes house on August 30 Bodsworth convinced two women to have a menage a trois.
Court documents reveal that it didn't go to plan.
Mid-act, one of the two women became angry at Bodsworth for having sex with the other one. She left the room; when she returned she interrupted the pair a second time.
An argument broke out between the aggrieved women and the young man, which quickly turned violent.
Bodsworth threw a bottle of spirits into a wall, which smashed, and received a slap in return. He then pushed one of the women up against a wall while yelling at her.
He threw a punch, which he aimed to miss one of the female victims, deliberately breaking a window and intimidating her. Then he smashed up the back window of her car.
The incident escalated when one woman tried to stop him getting into the vehicle. He hit her in the face and broke her lip, leaving her bleeding.
Several residents heard the incident and called police, with law enforcement turning up at about a quarter to one in the morning.
Bodsworth, who appeared via video link from custody in Armidale Local Court on Monday, has spent months behind bars already, after being jailed since August 30.
Mr Holmes said the young man was an essentially decent young man who didn't think things through. Blaming impulsive behaviour caused by the trifecta of alcohol, women and drugs for many of the crimes that come before his court.
"You're dealing in human emotions and jealousy does arise," he told Bodsworth.
"Think this through in future."
The young man told the court he had a plan for his future: moving to Muswellbrook to work in the mines while living with a brother.
He was convicted of a count of assault causing bodily harm, common assault, stalking or intimidating and two counts of damaging property. He will serve three months behind bars before being eligible for parole on November 29.
Andrew Messenger
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
