Cairin Tewene Dyer, a 21-year-old Griffith man, came before Magistrate Joy Boulos on Wednesday charged with intentionally damaging the front of a car.

Dyer went to the car park at Griffith Base Hospital where he smashed the windscreen and bonnet of a Nissan Qashqai at 8.45pm on June 14.

When police received a call from a nurse who witnessed the act, they found glass strewn across the ground, with dents to the bonnet, which they photographed.

Shortly after, police received a call from Dyer claiming responsibility for damaging the car.

When asked why he had done it, he told police someone told him it belonged to a person he had previous conflicts with.

Represented by Connor Cregan, he showed that Dyer was aware of his issues with alcohol, and was attending management programs as well as seeking support for anger management problems as well.

He reiterated when Dyer found out it did not belong to who he thought it did, he was overcome with guilt and made the call to police himself.

"Your honour he handed himself in, he was incredibly remorseful and was riddled with guilt when he found out," Mr Cregan said.

But Ms Bolous said that the case for 'mistaken identity' was no excuse at all.

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"Mr Dyer is no stranger to the court system, most recently with very serious drink-driving matters... with other drink-driving and malicious damage charges as well," Ms Boulos said.

"You've taken it upon yourself, this vigilante stuff, smashing cars, it is not on.

"It's clear you need to make serious changes... There has been a clear escalation in offences more recently."

Already on a bond for mid-range drink-driving, this was revoked and in it's place Dyer received another conditional, supervised community corrections order for two years. He was also hit with a hefty $2000 fine.

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