A convicted Albury criminal who pulled a knife and smashed a car will get to serve a jail sentence with his girlfriend in his own home.
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That has come about with Loclan McDermid being found suitable for home detention.
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But magistrate Rodney Brender gave the 21-year-old a chance to avoid jail.
He ordered he be assessed for home detention, though at the time noted that this was not an inevitable outcome.
McDermid fronted court again this week to find out his fate.
The home detention order will run for nine months and will require McDermid to wear an electronic monitoring device.
"I have several reports about you having an intellectual disability," Mr Brender said.
"(Under the sentence) you can live with your partner and you will be supervised."
McDermid's home detention forms part of a 12-month community corrections order.
This was imposed after he previously pleaded guilty to being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage property.
He showed no reaction to the handing down of his sentence.
The court heard previously how McDermid was motivated to arm himself with a knife and a baseball bat to confront a man who sent him text messages he did not appreciate.
One of the victims knew McDermid through McDermid's father.
The pair were exchanging messages via a mobile phone app on the afternoon of March 26, but some caused McDermid to "become quite aggressive".
A friend drove McDermid, after he grabbed the knife and bat, to Kurnell Street in Lavington.
He found the father and son nearby in the front yard of a Monkhouse Place house.
The father told him to go away.
That angered the baseball bat-wielding McDermid, who pulled out the knife to wave in their direction.
After they fled inside their home, they looked out to see McDermid use the bat to smash the side of the car.
