A drunken man got into a physical fight with his pregnant girlfriend, then stabbed his cousin multiple times when he tried to intervene.David Trott, 27, was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for the knife attack on “chivalrous” Trevon Talbot, who was aged 21 at the time.Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves had previously sentenced Trott, who he described as a “bully”, for wounding his own uncle with a crash helmet during a drug dispute.“You know these family members have to be very careful with him. Uncle first, cousin next, who is next, his sister?” remarked the judge.“He beat the stuffing out of his uncle last time over drugs.”According to prosecutor Cindy Clarke, the latest attack came when cousins Trott and Mr Talbot had been out together at a nightclub.She said Trott and his pregnant girlfriend began having a “physical altercation” in the early hours of April 13, 2011 after returning home to Trott’s residence in Broken Hill Lane, Smith’s.Mr Talbot got in between the couple to separate them. However, Trott then used a knife to stab him twice in the abdomen, twice in the back and to cut his eye.According to Ms Clarke, Mr Talbot did nothing to provoke the attack and Trott was not acting in self-defence.Neighbours came to Mr Talbot’s aid and he was taken to hospital where he remained for two weeks, receiving treatment for a punctured colon and subsequent infection.In a victim impact statement read during the sentencing hearing by the prosecutor, Mr Trott said: “I never thought that a night of socialising would end up like this; that I would end up hurt and have to be hospitalised.“David was my cousin and we have never had any feuds or gripes before this, so I cannot understand why he would do that to me. I was trying to defuse an altercation.”Prosecutor Ms Clarke said: “It’s an offence that was the result of a chivalrous action on behalf of the complainant to cease an assault on a pregnant woman.”Mr Justice Greaves meted out two years of probation and 300 hours of community service to Trott in 2006 after Trott beat his uncle.That was the second of three assaults he has on his criminal record, which stretches back to an appearance at Juvenile Court in 1998 for cannabis possession.Trott has additional previous convictions for stealing a bike and possessing cocaine with intent to supply it.Defence lawyer Marc Daniels said the attack on Mr Talbot was “wholly out of character” for Trott and committed “as a result of intoxication”.He said the two cousins had been out celebrating Trott’s birthday that night, and Trott cannot remember committing the stabbing due to his level of intoxication.He added that he is “remorseful, ashamed and embarrassed” about it now.Mr Daniels denied the altercation between Trott and his then girlfriend had been physical, saying it was a “very heated verbal altercation”.He also read a statement filed for the defence by Opposition Senator Michael Dunkley who praised Trott for his work as a golf caddie for him and his family at the Tucker’s Point Club.“He is very polite and the best caddie down at Mid Ocean,” according to Sen Dunkley, who said “we all make mistakes” but he was “obviously concerned” to hear about the crime.However, the judge made it clear what he thought of Trott’s character, based on his latest and previous convictions.“He thinks he can bully himself around the place. That’s what he does.“These two cases are very similar. That’s what convinces me that while he may be quiet and nice at one point, then he erupts into this foolishness,” he said.In addition to the three-year jail sentence, he ordered that Trott complete three years of probation upon his release.