>Abel Sorzor faced the Heidelberg Magistrates' Court via videolink on Friday on five charges including unlawful violence, using a prohibited weapon and committing an offence while on bail.
>while on bail.
>Magistrate John Bentley today sentenced the Thornhill Park man to 100 hours of community work and ordered him to undertake 18 months of drug treatment, mental health treatment and programs to reduce the risk of reoffending.
>The magistrate also set an overnight curfew and banned Sorzor from attending Northland.
>"He's been working six days a week for 12 months before this awful incident took place," the lawyer said.
>He also said his client was using marijuana and the anxiety medication Xanax at the time of the incident but had stopped using drugs in custody.
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