Jayden Yee, Baeley Yuile, Samuel Connolly, Jessica Davies sentenced following assault

A group of four young people from Ipswich have been sentenced after assaulting two men with a metal baseball bat in their own home. FULL STORY:

Crestmead woman Baeley Yuile, 22. Facebook

A young Ipswich man has recalled the morning he woke to see a stranger standing over him with a metal baseball bat, and the bloody aftermath of a group of four’s ‘misguided’ attempt at vigilantism.

Beaudesert man Jayden Yee, 23, Crestmead woman Baeley Yuile, 22, Brassall man Samuel Connolly, 18, and Boronia Heights woman Jessica Davies, 19, appeared in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday, each facing two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed in company and one count of entering a dwelling with intent at night while armed in company.

Each of the defendants pleaded guilty to the offences, all of which occurred at a Raceview address on December 19 last year.

The court was told Yuile, a mother of two and pregnant with a third child, was the instigator of the assaults, as she had asked her friends Yee, Connolly, and Davies to meet her at the address and beat one of its occupants.

She had arrived at the house earlier, about 2am, after meeting some of its occupants at a hotel in Yamanto.

A young man Yuile did not know returned to his home to find her asleep in his bed and demanded to know who she was.

The court heart Yuile woke up, moved to another bedroom in the house, and began messaging her friend Davies on Snapchat.

Magistrate Payne read the messages between the pair to the court, in which Yuile told Davies the man who had woken her was “going off” about her and said he wanted to “bash her”.

She told her friend to gather a group and come to the home, ask for the man who had woken her and “jump him”.

Another resident of the address, a young man, woke to see Connolly and Yee standing in his bedroom.

The court was told Yee stood over him, grabbed him by the shoulders, and asked him who he was repeatedly. When the man did not answer, Yee struck him to the face with his fist while he lay in his own bed.

Jayden Yee, 23. Picture: Facebook

Yee then found the man who had woken Yuile that morning and struck him in the face with a metal baseball bat the group had brought with them.

The man “curled up into a ball” on a mattress on the ground and was repeatedly assaulted, both with the weapon and without, for two minutes.

Ms Payne told the court the intruders remarked: “I think you’ve killed him.“

The group then proceeded to destroy property inside the home belonging to both of the men they assaulted, also damaging the home itself.

One of the residents of the home who was attacked recalled in a victim impact statement the “traumatic” events of the morning.

“I went to make sure they had left and when I turned around there was my house covered in my own blood, and my housemate, close mate, in the foetal position screaming ‘get me out of here’,” he wrote.

“I couldn’t believe what had just happened. It was like a movie scene.”

Jayden Yee, 23. Picture: Facebook

Yee, who appeared in court via video link, spent the past 10 months in custody.

Ms Payne took into account his early guilty plea, the “element of vigilantism” in his actions, the time he had already served, and the “superficial injuries” he suffered as a result of the incident.

He was sentenced to three years imprisonment with immediate parole.

Yuile was also sentenced to three years imprisonment, with parole on March 3 next year. She served 40 days in custody from December 19 last year.

Ms Payne said she considered that Yuile was in Australia on a visa, that she was intoxicated at the time of the events, and that she was the instigator of the assaults, when deciding a sentence.

Connolly, at 18 years old with no previous convictions, was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment with parole after five months, on March 12 next year.

Davies was sentenced for her role in the assaults to two and a half years imprisonment with parole on February 12 next year.

Ms Payne told the court she had taken numerous factors into consideration when deciding her sentence, including Davies’ age, character, remorse, and lack of criminal history.