A violent thug who stabbed and bit a manager of a Ballarat retirement village while on bail has been sentenced to jail. The actions of Timothy Cakebread were on Tuesday slammed by County Court Judge Mark Gamble as “selfish” as he was sentenced to one year and three months behind bars. The court was told the 26-year-old had been abusing benzodiazepines when he attempted to unlock cars on a Delacombe street in the early hours of July 7 last year. He wandered into Meadow Gardens Retirement Village and woke up a woman resident as he broke into a car about 4.15am. She called the manager who ran to the scene before a series of scuffles broke out, with Cakebread stabbing him in the arm with a screwdriver and biting him before fleeing down the street.
