Justice … ?

He tracked his 20-year-old former girlfriend to the Gold Coast after she fled Adelaide in 2010. Where …

He attacked her in her apartment, bashing her with an empty Bundaberg Rum bottle, slicing open the corners of her mouth and cutting off part of her tongue with a knife.

And then he tried choking her.

Judge Katherine McGinness refused an application by the prosecution to declare Tahir a serious violent offender. He will be eligible for parole from September 12, 2013.