Hugo Ball: Former Scots boy attacked by mum in 2021 returns to court on drug charges

A former private schoolboy injured in a shock attack by his mum at their mansion in Sydney’s eastern suburbs returned to court to face sentencing for drug-related matters.

Bellevue Hill stabbing victim Hugo Ball (Far Right) who was allegedly stabbed by his mother by his mother Samantha Palmer in their home. Pic: Supplied

A former private school boy who was thrust into the public eye when his mum stabbed him at their multimillion-dollar Bellevue Hill home returned to court to face sentencing on drug charges.

Hugo Ball, 24, of Paddington, was sentenced for cannabis and Xanax possession at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday.

According to police documents tendered to court the eastern suburbs man was found by police with 7g of cannabis and 91 tablets of 2mg strength Alprazolam (Xanax) about 3am on October 4 at North Bondi.

Ball was found slouched on a bench at Campbell Pde at Bondi Beach where police were called to assist paramedics when the Sydney man became “aggressive”, the facts state.

Hugo Ball arriving at Waverley Court in Sydney in 2021. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Magistrate Christopher Longley asked Ball what he had been thinking at the time of the incident, where the magistrate noted the eastern suburbs man had been found “in a vulnerable position at 3am in the morning.”

“I wasn’t thinking, your honour,” Ball told the court.

“I don’t remember much of it to be honest.”

Court heard the Paddington man was charged with the most recent offences while serving an 18-month community corrections order imposed in August 2021.

Ball (Far Right) who was allegedly stabbed by his mother by his mother Samantha Palmer in their home. Pic: Supplied

Mr Longley told the court he had been made aware of the “unfortunate event involving your mother” and asked Ball whether she had been released.

The 26-year-old said she had.

While the magistrate noted the maximum penalty for the crimes was five years, he told the court that would not be the outcome of this matter.

“That’s not going to happen, but that’s what the penalty would be.”

The private school graduate was charged over a destructive rampage at his father's $5.5 million terrace just a month after allegedly being stabbed by his mother Samantha Palmer. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Magistrate Longley convicted Ball for drug possession and fined him a combined $500.

The comes after Ball’s mother, Samantha Palmer, who pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless wounding, was sentenced in 2021 to a 17-month intensive correction order along with a two-year AVO preventing her from approaching her son, unless through a lawyer or if they decide to reconnect for family counselling.

Ball spiralled since the 2020 incident, facing court for separate offences throughout 2021.

About a month after the alleged stabbing, he was charged with damaging property at his father’s home in Paddington, following a heated dispute over prescription medication.

He pleaded guilty to that offence but avoided a conviction.

In May of 2021 the Scots College graduate was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to stealing $400 from an elderly woman who had been withdrawing the cash from an ATM at Bondi Junction.