A teenager has been spared jail time for attacking his former girlfriend who lost consciousness before waking up to find a pair of scissors sticking into her back.
Louis Nicholai McGee also used the scissors to attack his brother, probably because of "a perceived relationship" between his sibling and his ex-girlfriend.
"What you did was vicious and unprovoked," said Judge Geraldine Davison while sentencing the 19-year-old in the South Australian District Court on Friday.
McGee, of Dover Gardens, pleaded guilty to two aggravated counts of causing harm with intent in February last year.
The judge handed down a jail term of three years six months but suspended the sentence and placed him on a three-year good behaviour bond.
She said it was not entirely clear why McGee launched the violent attacks, noting he and a number of people at the home had been drinking heavily.
McGee's lawyer told an earlier hearing that his client acknowledged that he became "angry and emotional and irrational" before assaulting the pair "likely because of a perceived relationship" between them.
McGee had pushed the girl, then 16, before punching and kicking her, and stabbing her in the back with the scissors.
She lost consciousness and awoke with a pain and discovered the scissors sticking in her back.
McGee was holding the scissors when he punched his brother, causing serious injury to his eye and face, leading to his being hospitalised for weeks.
"Your actions have clearly had a serious and long term impact on both of your victims," the judge said.
"They have ongoing physical and mental damage as a result of your behaviour."
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