OH Gracie! You poor thing. That's awful to have that to worry about, but it sounds like he is totally repentant about it, poor guy, I guess things just brewed up in him and he wasn't thinking clearly either. At least he stood his ground with him Mum and I hope it gave her some food for thought. Its bloody scary to think about what could have happened so try not to OK? You'll only get yourself all worked up and you don't need that. He's probably going to look a hell of a lot worse than he really is, so don't let that make you think it's really really bad when you first see him, it sounds like it was all superficial though. I hope all goes well when he goes to court too, surely there are more than enough extenuating circumstances to show that this is completely out of character for him.