A 19-year-old appeared in Christchurch District Court this morning charged with assaulting his mother with a sword.
Process worker Cameron Fergus is accused of threatening to kill his mother and attacking her with a sword at the family home overnight.
He sobbed in the courtroom after being bailed to his sister's house with a special condition "not to inflict violence on his parents".
Fergus made no plea and will be back in court on October 25.
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The mother was not physically hurt in the alleged attack.