The violence by a teenager who bashed his sister's then partner because of a COVID fear was a "cowardly piece of thuggery" with "little thought", a magistrate has said.
The ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday heard that on April 8, the sister of Braedon Baker, 19, entered his Moncrieff premises while she had COVID and was not wearing a mask.
Baker took offence to that and believed his sister's then partner, who was outside, also had COVID, which was confirmed after the incident.
