A weapon-wielding man who was involved in an "extraordinary" incident in a Dubbo street that left a victim with lacerations will have a jail sentence hanging over him for nine months.
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Jye Condon Beatty, 21, took up a knife and a crowbar in a crime with two co-accused against the victim, who had threatened to shoot them and urged them to fight.
Beatty ultimately pleaded guilty in Dubbo Local Court to charges of affray and reckless wounding, while further serious charges were withdrawn.
Magistrate Andrew Eckhold sentenced Beatty to a nine-month term of imprisonment, suspended on the condition he enter into a good behaviour bond for reckless wounding.
Beatty was also convicted of affray and placed on a good behaviour bond for three years.
"It is just an extraordinary situation that this would be happening in a public street in Dubbo," Mr Eckhold said of the incident.
He said a term of imprisonment was appropriate for the reckless wounding because the community would be rightly concerned about the criminal behaviour, but he said what Beatty's mother had encountered was "outside what was normally seen".
The court heard the victim in the attack had been in a relationship with Beatty's mother, co-accused Shona Howison, and made threats to her.
The victim had knocked on the door of a Gilbert Street home on the afternoon of November 6 and confronted Howison about an alleged affair.
The victim punched the bedroom window and before leaving said he was going to come back with a gun and shoot them all, the court heard.
A short time later the victim received a phone call and was requested to collect his belongings from the house.
When he arrived he saw Beatty and Howison and co-accused Barbie Fernando in the front yard, all of whom were armed with varying weapons, court documents show.
The victim took his shirt off and called on the trio to come out and fight him, the documents show.
He continued to attempt to enter the yard and advanced on Howison before Beatty approached and waved the 70cm-long crow bar and pointed down the road for the victim to leave.
The victim continued to yell at the trio to "have a go" and then Beatty ran towards the victim with the co-accused following.
Beatty swiped the victim with a crowbar, piercing the top layer of skin of his foot, and swung a knife towards him, connecting with his inner arm, which began to bleed, the documents show.
Friends of the victim ran in and broke up the fight, with the assault lasting about 10 seconds.
