A man who threatened to cut out a woman's tongue with a sword during a violent home invasion was carrying out a drug-induced act of retribution, a court has heard.
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Peter Dennis Blundell, 30, organised an attack on a Greenway woman in her home in December last year.
The ACT Supreme Court heard the woman was left terrified and screaming after Blundell entered her home with another man and two young girls, who cannot be named because they are underage.
They gained entry to the house on the pretext that Blundell wanted to apologise to the victim for previously shouting at her.
Blundell, who was armed with a 60cm sword, cut the top of the womans foot with the sword and said, "If you don't stop screaming I'll cut your tongue out."
He also told the woman that she was "a dog and this is what happens to dogs".
One of Blundell's co-accused, Paul David Kelly, 29, allegedly bound the victim's hands and ankles with tape and wrapped tape around her eyes and mouth during the attack.
Blundell pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Kelly and the two girls have pleaded not guilty to the home invasion.
The court heard Blundell was angry at the victim because he believed she had given his girlfriend drugs.
He took ice to "calm himself down" but instead became more angry and organised the attack on the woman in a drug-fuelled rage.
Blundell is already serving a sentence for bashing a man with a hammer in his home last year and was on bail for the hammer attack when he carried out the current offence.
Blundell's lawyer said he was instructed to relay a story that "defies belief", saying his client had suffered a broken leg during childbirth and was rejected by his mother within a week of his birth.
The court heard that Blundell eventually spent time in up to 10 foster homes and attending more than 30 schools.
But Blundell was undergoing an intensive drug and alcohol rehabilitation program at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the territory's jail, and was living in a therapeutic community.
He was working hard to free himself from drugs and dissociate himself from former friends who had a negative influence.
The prosecution argued the crimes were "abhorrent" and Blundell had previous convictions for assault, aggravated burglary and possessing weapons.
In May this year he was sentenced for a similar home invasion, in which he attended a friends home to remonstrate with him and then attacked the victim with a hammer.
Justice John Burns will hand down his sentence later this month.