Eric James Owen’s efforts to stop the alleged bullying culminated in a pizza restaurant owner going through a plate glass window.

“This is not the wild west,” magistrate Tony Murray told Eric James Owen in placing him on a community service order.

Owen had previously pleaded guilty to reckless wounding and destroy or damage property over the incident at the pizza restaurant in Mate Street, North Albury, on November 10.

Mr Murray told Owen that the victim would have been simply going about his normal business when Owen turned up about 4pm.

Owen, 37, was there because he reckoned the man’s 13-year-old son was hassling his 12-year-old daughter.

Owen had initially confronted the man about his claims at the Albury Show.

But it was the second meeting between the two that culminated in Owen being charged.

The victim denied his son was bullying Owen’s daughter, ordering him out of the restaurant.

The court was previously told how the victim was standing with his hands beside his face, with his palms open.

At one point the men began to wrestle, the victim trying to push Owen out the door.

This was when Owen pushed the man backwards while the pair were locked together in their struggle, causing him to to trip over a low bench and fall through the glass window.

This left the victim with cuts to his face, hands, scalp and chest and needing eight stitches to his right shoulder. 

Defence solicitor Mark Cronin argued the act of recklessness did not carry the usual connotations of a premeditated act such as a punch.

But Mr Murray said Owen would still have been aware the window was behind them during the struggle.

Owen was convicted and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community work, with this including 20 hours on an anger management course.

Owen was also fined $200 and must pay $675 compensation.