Man who broke victim’s jaw in knockout punch at Canberra’s Spilt Milk festival avoids jail

A man who broke his victim’s jaw in a one-punch attack at Canberra’s Spilt Milk festival has avoided a full-time jail sentence.

Jese Smith-Shields, 22, was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm after he and his friend Bailey Loughhead got into a fight with another man at the event in 2018.

The court heard there was already tension when the pair ran into the victim, due to rumours he had slept with Smith-Shields’ former girlfriend.

Smith-Shields was today sentenced in the ACT…