Todd Lloyd McMahon sentenced for public nuisance offences and obstructing a police officer

A Gin Gin labourer, who got into a bloody pub fight and two months later, went wild in a police car, claims he was unlucky enough to be busted by police on the only two nights of the year he was drunk.

Todd Lloyd McMahon pleaded guilty before Bundaberg Magistrates Court to two counts of commit public nuisance within a licensed premises and one count of obstructing a police officer.

A single dad, whose lawyer claims he “doesn’t really drink”, got into a roiling fight at a Gin Gin pub that lasted for several minutes and left a “pool of blood” on the floor.

Months later, he was arrested after drinking in public and lashing out at police.

Details of both nights were read out in Bundaberg Magistrates Court where Todd Lloyd McMahon pleaded guilty to two counts of commit public nuisance within a licensed premises and one count of obstructing a police officer.

The court heard McMahon got involved in a fight with another man in the beer garden of the Gin Gin Hotel around 2am.

The fight lasted several minutes, moving out onto Walker St and continuing on the footpath and road before the pair were separated.

McMahon, employed as a labourer, left the scene on foot, after which police arrived at the hotel and reported seeing a “pool of blood” on the floor near the pool table inside the pub.

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A short time later, police located McMahon with blood on his hands and knuckles and an open wound on his face around one of his eyes.

McMahon denied being involved in the fight when questioned by police.

In another incident two months later, police observed McMahon walking towards a park from the Highway Hotel while carrying and consuming alcohol.

The court heard that McMahon “doesn’t really drink at all” and the two days in which he committed the offences before the court were the only times that he had been drunk this year.

When approached by police, McMahon asked them “what do you want you c--t?’.

On further questioning, McMahon said words to the effect of “I don’t really give a f--k anymore”, following which he was placed under arrest and moved into a police vehicle.

The court heard McMahon continued abusing and threatening the police officers and kicked violently at the protective screen inside the vehicle.

The arresting officers called for other police officers to come to the scene to assist with restraining McMahon.

The police prosecutor told the court that during the struggles with police McMahon lifted his leg in an “apparent attempt to kick” a police officer.

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McMahon’s lawyer told the court her client “doesn’t really drink at all”, and the two days in which he committed the offences before the court were the only times that he had been drunk this year.

The court heard McMahon was a single father raising a child with no assistance from his ex-partner, and was “embarrassed and remorseful” for his actions.

Magistrate Edwina Rowan told McMahon she needed to sentence him “in a way that sends a message to the community that police officers should not be treated as punching bags, and they should not be abused by members of the public at any time”.

Ms Rowan said while it was commendable McMahon was supporting his child as a single father, he needed to be the “best possible example for (his child) into the future”.

McMahon was sentenced to a period of probation for six months.

Convictions recorded.