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Cody Hingston did not want a sentence of home detention. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\nA Tasmanian man who snapped a golf club over his sister\u2019s partner before stabbing him with the broken shaft and a knife has been jailed for 15 months.<\/p>\n
Cody James Hingston, 29, will spend six months behind bars after admitting to wounding the man in front of a seven-year-old child.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court heard that on January 28, 2023, Hingston drove to the property where the victim lived with Hingston\u2019s twin sister and their three young sons.<\/p>\n
Armed with a metal golf club, Hingston smashed the car\u2019s centre pillar before attacking the victim, striking him \u201cso hard that the golf club broke\u201d as he stepped out of the vehicle, Justice Robert Pearce said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite his attempts to avoid you and shield himself, you stabbed him in the left forearm,\u201d the judge told Hingston, who then pulled out a folding knife and threatened to kill the victim. <\/p>\n
Cody Hingston did not want a sentence of home detention. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n
Hingston tried to stab him in the chest and inflicted a 10-centimetre wound to his back while repeating death threats. He fled the scene with the man\u2019s car keys.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to hospital with deep wounds to his forearm and back, the latter requiring stitches.<\/p>\n
One of the victim\u2019s children later told police his \u201cdaddy was stabbed by his uncle\u201d, the judge said. <\/p>\n
Hingston initially denied being there and claimed the victim was \u201cdelusional\u201d. But DNA from blood on the broken golf club and inside Hingston\u2019s car proved otherwise.<\/p>\n
The court heard Hingston believed he was protecting his sister from the man\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of the reason for it, it did not justify such violence,\u201d Justice Pearce said, noting Hingston was \u201cvery fortunate\u201d not to face more serious charges.<\/p>\n
Nine months of his sentence were suspended for two years, on the condition he stays out of trouble and complies with supervision after his release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tasmanian man who snapped a golf club over his sister\u2019s partner before stabbing him with the broken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-30695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}