Glen Scott Philips: Camper punches elderly man in face at Tara Festival

‘I’m going to bash you in the face’: A man, 72, was hospitalised with serious facial injuries after his attacker punched him through a camper van window, causing him to fall back onto a table.

Glen Scott Philips Picture: Facebook

A festivalgoer who punched an elderly man in the face, causing him to fall backwards onto a table before being taken to hospital with facial injuries was sentenced in Dalby court.

Glen Scott Philips was talking loudly on the phone late at night on July 28 while camping next to the 72-year-old victim and his wife.

Police prosecutor Chris Hutchins said Philips, 52, had consumed eight drinks before he tapped on the older man’s caravan window and said, ‘I need to talk to you’.

“When he opened the window, the victim asked him to be quiet and (Philips) said, ‘You say one more word, I’m going to bash you in the face’,” he said.

The court heard the older man asked him to keep it down again before Philips punched him in the face through the window, with the older man falling backwards onto a table.

“His nose and lip were bleeding and he was taken to Tara Hospital,” Sergeant Hutchins said.

Glen Scott Philips Picture: Facebook

Defence lawyer Julia Molloy said her client claimed the elderly man swore at him while he was on the phone to his partner, whose daughter was suffering a medical episode that caused him significant stress.

“He accepts that it was no excuse for violence, though,” she said.

Philips pleaded guilty to serious assault of a person over 60.

He was placed on a $500 good behaviour bond for six months and ordered to pay $1000 compensation to his victim.

No conviction was recorded.