A MAN awaiting sentencing for violently attacking police in Glen Innes has been jailed for bashing a family member.
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Sam Boney appeared via video link in Armidale Local Court this week and reversed his pleas to four charges stemming from an altercation in Glen Innes in March.
The 26-year-old, who was on conditional bail at the time of the offences for bashing police, was taken into custody in April after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) successfully lodged a detention application to have Boney refused bail.
Magistrate Michael Holmes jailed Boney for 12 months for the violent outburst in a Glen Innes home in the early hours of March 25.
According to police facts, Boney had been drinking with family all night, when he turned on the victim who told the 26-year-old he was tired and going to bed, about 4.30am.
Boney tried to persuade the victim to stay up and asked where his phone was before the victim swore "in a joking manner" and told him he didn't know where the mobile was.
"What did you say? Don't you try and talk down to me! I'll bash you in your own house. I don't give a ****," Boney told the victim, police facts said.
Boney then attacked the victim who was sitting in a lounge chair, punching him three times in the face.
Police were alerted and saw the victim's face was swollen around his cheek bones with bruising around his eyes.
Boney was tracked by officers and found in an intoxicated state at a home shortly after.
He became aggressive with officers, tried to pull away when he was arrested and had to be physically restrained after he grabbed onto a constable's load bearing police vest.
Boney had previously denied the five charges against him and was set to go to hearing, but instead pleading guilty to the offences this week, before prosecutors dropped a backup assault charge.
Mr Holmes jailed Boney for one year for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and intimidation and imposed six month terms on two charges of resisting police.
He will be eligible for parole in September after serving a minimum of six months.
Boney is still awaiting sentence in the district court for violently attacking police in Glen Innes in 2014.
He was assessed for an intensive corrections order but public outcry over the sentence and photos of Boney high-fiving his co-offenders outside court in January prompted the Attorney-General to ask the DPP to review the sentence
