A MAN, 22, who slashed a 16-year-old boy’s face with a knife at Cooranbong followed the teenager there from Morisset after his younger brother told him he had been robbed.
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Daniel John Robb, of Pulbah Street, Wyee, appeared in Newcastle Local Court via audio visual link from Parklea Correctional Centre on Wednesday, where he entered a plea of guilty to reckless wounding.
Robb’s younger brother and two others were involved in an argument with the victim and a group of teenagers at Morisset Square shopping centre about 1pm on March 2 this year, according to an agreed statement of facts.
After the groups dispersed, the victim and a friend got on a bus to Cooranbong, while Robb’s younger brother called him to say he had been robbed of $30.
Robb picked him up and set off for Cooranbong, tracking the victim down after he got off the bus.
Robb ran towards the victim, catching him in the front yard of a friend’s house where he pulled out a small knife with a curved blade.
He then grabbed the victim, punched him in the head three times and slashed the victim’s face from the middle of his forehead down to below his left eye.
The wound was about 10 centimetres long and required 14 external and 12 internal stitches to close.
Police spoke to Robb on the phone and he handed himself into Belmont police station that night.
Robb, who the court heard was serving two suspended jail terms at the time of the offence, is facing the maximum of seven years in jail when he is sentenced in the same court in September.
