Jacob Phillip Reynolds: 20yo sentenced after hitting a stranger with a door

A Sunshine Coast man has fronted court charged with a bizarre assault after he struck a stranger with a door.

A 20-year-old Sunshine Coast man has pleaded guilty to slamming a door into a woman he’d never met during a heated confrontation.

Landsborough man Jacob Phillip Reynolds, 20, faced the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on Friday charged with assault occasioning bodily harm.

The court heard on March 20, Reynolds assaulted a woman at Kallangur.

The police prosecutor told the court Reynolds pushed a door into the woman causing pain and bruising to her upper arms.

“She received medical treatment for soreness to the rotator cuff,” she said.

His lawyer told the court Reynolds and his partner had returned home from celebrating a friend’s birthday when they began to argue.

“He left the apartment with a friend that he later returned to the apartment with because he realised he left his wallet and his keys there,” she said.

“When he knocked on the door of his own apartment he was confronted with the complainant who was being very confrontational with him, telling him he wasn’t allowed inside his own apartment.”

The court was told Reynolds didn’t know the woman who was assaulted.

“He’d never seen her, he’d never met her before,” his lawyer said.

“When the complainant went to shut the door on Mr Reynolds he happened to have his hand in the door frame and it was jammed in the door when it closed.

“This caused him to grab hold of the door and push it open, as he did that it hit the complainants shoulder.

“The assault and the injuries sustained were not intentional but he accepts in the circumstances it was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his actions.”

The roof tiler was supported in court by his mother who he has since moved in with.

Acting Magistrate Patrick Murphy told Reynolds if he came back before the court a sentence of imprisonment would be well within range.

“I know that you’re still a young man and that you’ve got a future in front of you but this is the third time you’ve been in front of a courtroom for an offence of assault,” he said.

“I think it’s more serious given your history that you’re continuing to offend in this way.”

Reynolds was sentenced to nine months probation with no conviction recorded.