East Albury man was offered $10 to give Matthew Ritchie and others a lift

Robert Zacariah John received a 12-month jail term from District Court judge Sean Grant.

But John won't spend the term in full-time custody after Judge Grant ordered the sentence be served by way of an intensive corrections order in the community.

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John had admitted to being an accessory after the fact to wounding of a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

He had been committed for sentence in the Albury Local Court after pleading guilty to the charge.

The 38-year-old, the Local Court heard on him entering his plea, was at his Eastern Circuit home on December 11 when one of the three men who later travelled in his car came to his front door.

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He was offered $10 to give them a lift to Wagga Road, where Troy Anthony Holland suffered "life-threatening" attack injuries.

A woman driving along the road that night reported seeing men punching and kicking another man, who was against the fence with blood all over his face.

John was waiting in the car, then yelled out to the men "get in, get in" before speeding off from the scene in what was described as "an erratic manner".

He took the men back to Eastern Circuit and initially told police he had picked up three intoxicated men who had asked for a lift.

Matthew Ritchie, 20, was jailed by Judge Grant a month ago on a charge of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Ritchie, then 19, committed the attack in retaliation for an incident where Holland allegedly slashed the neck of his ex-partner.

Holland had to have life-saving surgery during which a section of bowel was removed.

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