A serial criminal described as a "lovely, kind soul" kicked a man in the face and split his lip during what a judge has called an "unprovoked and unnecessary" attack.
Zoran Troselj, 50, spent two weeks in custody over the incident, but avoided further time behind bars when he was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court to a fully suspended 20-month jail term.
Sentencing remarks, published on Thursday, show Acting Justice Stephen Norrish imposed that sentence last week after Troselj pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
