A convicted knifeman, who left his sister's boyfriend with "appalling disfiguring scars" after attacking him with a sharp barber's blade, has been jailed for six years.
Julian Branyik, 28, launched his ferocious onslaught when left alone in the kitchen of his Croydon home with the victim, who had been invited over for a friendly drink.
Croydon Crown Court (pictured) heard Branyik, previously jailed for eighteen months for brandishing a kitchen knife at a queue of late-night shoppers, was never happy about his sister's relationship and there had been threats.
He pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm, with intent, at the flat on July 2.
Branyik invited his sister and her boyfriend over for a drink, but during the evening asked his sibling to go out for some beer.
He head-butted the victim, connecting with the bridge of the victim's nose, tried to punch him in the face and then connected with a blow to the mouth, breaking a tooth.
Branyik grabbed a sharp knife, which his hairdresser sister used for work, and slashed the victim's face, inflicting a five to six inch wound.
The victim later told police the defendant was "jabbing" him all over the face with the blade, inflicting several more cuts.
When the boyfriend kicked-out in self-defence he was stabbed to the rear of his right thigh.
Branyik told him: "You got off lightly. I was going to cut your hands off."
The court heard the victim has a long criminal record, including assaults on police, and had been violent towards Branyik's sister for a year and assaulted her a few weeks before.
"These are quite appalling disfiguring scars," said the Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon, looking at photos of the victim's injuries.
In relation to Branyik he added: "He is an educated man. It is a tragedy what has happened."
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