In the midst of a heated roadside altercation, a father has claimed that he was defending his family when he struck another man in the head with a golf club.
After warning the pair for speeding in his neighborhood, Corey Dawson, 49, was attacked by a man and a woman who were both carrying hammers.
Embarrassing video of the heated encounter shows Mr. Dawson berating the driver on his suburban Elizabeth South street.
He exclaims to the driver, “Drive correctly you worthless c***.”
“You come back spinning the wheel you worthless p****, you drive by here going f***ing 90 kilometres per hour.”
He rushes with the hammer at the father, but misses. Mr. Dawson then strikes the father’s head with a golf club in retaliation, but the impact is too gruesome to be shown on television.
With a sledge hammer in hand and his female companion holding a claw hammer, the enraged driver returned to Mr. Dawson’s street.
The father strikes the driver with his golf club in retaliation after the son lunges at Mr. Dawson but misses.
Because of how graphic the effect is, Daily Mail Australia has decided not to publish it.
Before leaving the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the driver spent 22 days in intensive care with a fractured skull, according to The Advertiser.
Mr. Dawson gave the graphic video to the police in the hope that it would demonstrate his right to self-defense when he struck the man back in April 2020.
Judge Paul Slattery ultimately disagreed, stating that the father of seven could have left the argument numerous times.
The father was “justified,” according to Judge Slattery, in complaining to the driver, but his reaction to the incident was “disproportionate.”
Mr. Dawson was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Wednesday after entering a guilty plea to one count of recklessly causing serious harm.
With a 19-month non-parole period, the sentence will be carried out while he is housebound so he can continue to care for his kids.
Mr. Dawson told reporters after the hearing that he had just been attempting to “defend my family and myself from a no good individual.”
“We gave our film thinking we were doing the right thing, but the cops used it against us,” we said. All along, it’s been unfair,’ he said.