22:31 EDT, 23 February 2021
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A prestigious private school graduate who was allegedly stabbed by his own mother has avoided conviction for damaging his father s multimillion-dollar terrace house.
Hugo Ball, 23, went to live with his father after he was allegedly stabbed by his mother at his family s $3million Bellevue Hill property on November 21.
Just weeks later the troubled laborer was accused of damaging his new digs with cops issuing a restraining order on his father Ian s behalf.
He was arrested on December 27 for damaging the front shutters of his Dad s $5.5million property in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Paddington.
Hugo Ball (pictured) with his his British-born father, British-born corporate high flyer and former Cardno CEO Ian Ball, escaped a conviction for damaging his father s house
A landlord who joked his shakedown of a tenant over unpaid rent was a Quentin Tarantino moment worthy of nostalgic retelling in later years has pleaded guilty to assault and intimidation.
Mario Venneri, 57, placed a chained bike lock on the table and made a fake phone call to a worse guy called Johnny during the heated, half-hour meeting in his Surry Hills home in June 2020. You have two ways to go, the good way and the wrong way, he warned tenant Brice Gouillou, then 24, on the afternoon of June 17.
Landlord, Mario Venneri (pictured centre) has pleaded guilty to assault and intimidation over a dispute with the tennant, Brice Gouillou