The man behind a 鈥渂arbaric鈥� machete attack at Ben Lee Park was released from custody Monday and told he can only return to 91大黄鸭 under very strict conditions.

Derrick Antoine, 29, was sentenced to 10-months in prison, as per the joint recommendation of Crown counsel and his defence attorney for charges relating to a series of increasingly violent outbursts in 2016. He was credited with time-and-a-half for 217 days spent in custody, which left him at zero time left to serve.

Antoine will be on probation for the next two years and has to submit to a DNA order. Notably, he is not permitted within the boundaries of 91大黄鸭 unless it鈥檚 to pick up or drop off his child for visitation elsewhere. In some circumstances a supervised visit within city boundaries may be accepted.

The sentence was 鈥渙n the edge of what鈥檚 acceptable to the court,鈥� said Judge Mayland McKimm, noting he would have preferred a sentence of 12 to 18 months given the severity of the attacks levied by Antoine.

Tilting the scales toward acceptability, explained McKimm, was the Crown and defence finding a sentence that reflects a 鈥渕eaningful application of the Gladue principle.鈥�

Gladue is a sentencing principle that recognizes that Aboriginal Canadians face racism and systemic discrimination in the criminal law system, and has the judge focus on systemic or background factors that may have played a part in bringing the offender before the courts.

In Antoine鈥檚 case, he is the grandchild of a residential school survivor. The effect that had on his mother, led to a tumultuous upbringing, marred by violence.

Acknowledging his history doesn鈥檛 mean he gets a 鈥渄iscount on his sentence,鈥� said McKimm.

It means that Antoine didn鈥檛 have the 鈥渟ame toolkit to deal with circumstances, (such as) being asked to exact revenge for a perceived slight鈥� against an ex girlfriend.

That, in addition to narcotic use, the court was told is what led Antoine to a series of increasingly violent attacks against unarmed people in 91大黄鸭 last summer.

Antoine had a violent relationship with the mother of his child. During a June 2016 incident their relationship hit a boiling point and Antoine hit the woman with a phone wire. He was located and taken into custody shortly thereafter, only to be released in July.

He wasn鈥檛 supposed to be in contact with the woman, but at some point they reconnected and she asked him to exact revenge on a man she claimed had treated her in an insulting manner.

That man and his friends had been hanging out around Ben Lee Park on Aug. 8, 2016, when two others approached the group with a machete saying, 鈥測ou f***ed with the wrong girl,鈥� and 鈥測ou鈥檙e messing with the wrong people.鈥�

Antoine, wielding a machete, put a gash in the man鈥檚 face that extended from under his eye, on his cheekbone, right to his earlobe. Police who arrived on scene said they could see the bone beneath the cut. The man鈥檚 leg was also permanently injured in the attack.

Antoine escaped somehow, but was put back in the crosshairs of police when he got into another fight with the mother of his child on Aug. 16, 2016 and stabbed her in the back.

All three attacks, which escalated in severity, were 鈥渂arbaric, vicious and inexcusable,鈥� said McKimm.

Antoine, who pleaded guilty to the bulk of charges relating to these attacks long before they went to trial, said he鈥檚 used the seven months he spent in custody trying to better himself.

While in custody, he successfully completed courses dealing with addiction and relationship skills, and showed the courts certificates to prove it.

He intends to keep on that path so he can build on his relationship with his child, which is something he knows will 鈥渢ake a lot of work.鈥�

When asked how he would do that considering his history with the child鈥檚 mother, Antoine said it would be difficult.

鈥淩ealistically, we will have to be parents together,鈥� he said, adding that a relationship other than that is off the table.

Also working in Antoine鈥檚 favour at sentencing is that he is a first time offender, who鈥檚 relatively young and proven previously to be a capable member of society. He also already has lined up a job in the field of silviculture, with the help of his family.