An Indian migrant has been handed two years in prison over an attack on his colleagues with a meat cleaver following an argument in Perth last year.
32-year-old Rajat Chaudhary who worked in a sausage factory during the day and a night-time pizza delivery driver at Dominos slashed two of his co-workers after one of them threatened to bash him during a work-related argument on March 4 last year.
The District Court of WA heard Chaudhary went home to collect the cleaver and used it to inflict deep wounds to the two colleagues during a fight outside a store where the victims were sauntering.
Judge Simon Stone said the provocation was minor compared to Chaudhary's reaction.
"It was a senseless dispute over employment issues," Judge Stone said on Tuesday.
"You over-reacted in a significant way."
Chaudhary was jailed for two years and will be eligible for parole after serving one year.
His wife held their 10-month-old child in the public gallery and wept as the sentence was handed down.
Chaudhary will be eligible for parole after he has served one-year imprisonment. He faces possible deportation to India after he is released from jail.
