Ormiston electrical apprentice Luke Thomas Randel sentenced for breaking 62-year-old‘s ribs

“You take him, I’ll take the old f**ker”: A bayside electrical apprentice has been sentenced after a brutal carpark assault which left a man almost 40 years his senior with severe spinal damage.

A bayside electrical apprentice has faced court after viciously attacking a 62-year-old man in a tavern car park, leaving him with rib and spinal injuries.

Ormiston resident, Luke Thomas Randel, pleaded guilty in Cleveland Magistrates Court on Tuesday, August 9 to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of affray.

Luke Thomas Randel outside Cleveland Magistrates Court on August 9.

The court heard the 22-year-old was outside the Sands Hotel Cleveland on August 8, 2021 when he, along with three others, engaged in an attack against two men, saying: “You take him, I’ll take the old f**ker.”

“Police observed CCTV footage indicating the defendant walked up to the victim and punched him in the back of the head, holding him with his left hand (and) repeatedly punching him with his right hand,” a police prosecutor said.

The court heard Randel then threw the man into a metal awning support.

His lawyer, Sarah Churches-Kennedy said her client wants to turn his life around.

“My client has been working full time for a year now, “ Ms Churches-Kennedy said.

“He’s working towards a house deposit to buy a house.”

Magistrate Deborah Vasta said she was shocked seeing the CCTV footage of the attack.

“It was vicious,” Ms Vasta said.

Randel was convicted and sentenced to two months’ jail, suspended for 18 months.

“I’m hoping you are starting to grow up,” Ms Vasta said.