Samuel Octavious Pacey and Brandon Aaron Orchard sentenced for bashing man in popular Lismore pub
Two drunken revellers have been sentenced for their part in a violent altercation which left the victim with a broken nose and facial lacerations.
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Two mean have been sentenced over a brutal attack on a man at a Northern Rivers pub which left the victim with horrific injuries including a broken nose and separated upper lip.
Dunoon man Samuel Octavious Pacey must serve out 12 months on a community correction order and perform 40 hours of community service work for brutally bashing a man in a Northern Rivers pub last year.
Police identified the 25-year-old from CCTV footage of the incident arresting him in June.
Pacey pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Lismore Local Court on September 7 and was convicted and sentenced on Monday.
Pacey and his girlfriend had started drinking at the Lismore Turf Club and then moved into town when the race day was cut short due to bad weather.
Pacey then arced up against a 24-year-old punter at the Metropole Hotel in Lismore over a biff with his girlfriend.
The man had opened a bathroom door onto the woman who shoved it back into the man, court documents revealed.
When they exchanged “heated words” the woman threw her drink over his back.
Pacey then attacked the man after he slapped her drink out of her hand.
The court heard another man, 27-year-old Brandon Aaron Orchard, of Goonellabah, joined the fray.
Bystanders broke the pair up after Pacey landed a flurry of punches, kneeing the man in the head as he was dragged away.
“As a result of the assault the victim received a number of injuries, including a fractured nose, separated upper lip, facial lacerations and swelling, as well as a chipped tooth,” police state in court documents.
Orchard pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm over the same incident on Monday.
Magistrate Kathy Crittenden convicted Orchard fining him $500 and placed him on a 12 month community corrections order.
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