Brandon Walker-West gives thumbs up as he walks from court sentenced for a stabbing

A man who stabbed his neighbour during a fight has given the thumbs up while walking from court after receiving a suspended sentence.

A MAN who stabbed his neighbour during a fight has given the thumbs while walking from court after receiving a suspended sentence.

Brandon Walker-West, 21, was sentenced in the Southport District Court this morning to two years prison wholly suspended.

He had pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.

Brandon Walker-West gives the thumbs up after being sentenced for a stabbing. Picture: Jerad Williams

Walker-West was involved in a heated argument with a neighbour outside their Palm Beach unit on February 3, last year.

Walker-West and his girlfriend were both punched by a woman and her daughter soon came out with a frying pan.

The teenager went inside and grabbed a knife and came out threatening the woman and her daughter.

Brandon Walker-West leaving the Southport Courthouse on Friday. Picture: Jerad Williams

The younger woman lunged at him with the knife and Walker-West swung, stabbing the woman in the chest.

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The woman was taken to hospital with a cut to her liver and a 3cm wound.

“I’m very concerned that you went back to the unit and obtained a knife which is an implement which can cause injury, even death,” Judge Katherine McGinness said.

The sentence began in March this year but was adjourned so Walker-West could complete anger management counselling.

Walker-West told the court he would continue to undergo counselling.