A central Victorian man has avoided jail time after a violent, alcohol-fuelled episode where he terrorised his aunt and cousins.
Briley Mallia, 21, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, threatening to kill, property damage, and assault of an emergency worker.
In her sentencing remarks, Judge Rosemary Carlin quoted a letter Mallia wrote to the court.
The court heard Mallia started drinking during the day on February 27 at his grandmother's house in Long Gully.
His aunt picked him up after he started acting inappropriately.
Judge Carlin said Mallia continued to drink and smoked cannabis at his aunt's house.
When he started to get violent his aunt kicked him out of the house.
He then smashed the front window and told his aunt he was going to kill her.
His aunt hid in cupboards, then a bedroom with her three children, petrified of the alcohol-fuelled violence as Mallia smeared his blood on the walls and threatened to kill her.
Judge Carlin described it as "offensive and disdainful conduct".
Man doesn't remember violent episode
When the 21-year-old spoke to police the next day he said he did not remember the incident.
Mallia said "he felt sick to the stomach" about it and regretted it.
In her sentencing remarks, Judge Carlin acknowledged Mallia's alcohol and drug abuse and recognised his intoxication as a factor in the incident.
She said he had not drunk alcohol since and is participating in a rehabilitation program at Odyssey House.
"You have been there for just over 2 months and have indicated you wish to stay there for at least another 6 weeks," Judge Carlin said.
The judge sentenced Mallia to a combination sentence, where he will not have to spend any more time in jail after spending 82 days in custody before receiving bail.
Judge Carlin said if he had not pleaded guilty he would have been sentenced to a year in jail.
"You facilitated the course of justice and took legal responsibility for your crimes," Judge Carlin said.
