OneFour: CCTV of pub brawl which put 2 rappers in jail
Sickening footage reveals the moment two OneFour rappers use a hammer and wooden chair leg to bash three men inside a western Sydney pub. SEE THE VIDEO. Warning: Graphic
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Sickening footage from a Rooty Hill pub brawl reveals the moment two OneFour rappers used a hammer and wooden chair leg to beat three men.
The footage, released through the NSW District Court, shows Pio Misa, known as YP, and Dahcell Ramos, known as Celly, in a brawl at the Carousel Inn at Rooty Hill in July last year.
On Wednesday they were sentenced to four and 10 years respectively for their parts in the brawl.
The jail sentences have turned the popular Mt Druitt-based rap group into a duo, with just two members allowed to perform in Auckland on Thursday night.
The CCTV footage from the Rooty Hill pub shows Misa and Ramos bashing Troy Taylor, Anthony Hayward and publican Shayne Turner in the pokie room.
The rappers, whose songs include lines about stabbing people and putting them in coffins, left one man lying bloody and unconscious in the outdoor pokie room of the Carousel Inn after 1am on July 21 last year.
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The group claims the lyrics are art, while a disclaimer to one music video states that the characters are “entirely fictional” and the events depicted “purely symbolic”.
The Sydney District Court heard on Wednesday that Misa and Ramos were with co-offenders Timothy Willett and Jimmy Vaafusuaga when they bashed Hayward, Taylor and Turner.
“Misa pulled out a timber chair leg from inside his clothes,” District Court Judge James Bennett said.
“He held the timber leg by his side for a short time before hitting Hayward in the back of the head with it twice. Hayward immediately backed away.
“Misa then followed him into the middle of the brawl and he hit him for a third time with the timber chair leg.”
While that was happening Ramos was wielding a hammer at Mr Hayward.
“Ramos pulled out a hammer from inside his jacket and hit the victim Taylor in the head a number of times,” the judge said.
The CCTV footage shows Taylor laying in a pool of blood.
District Court Judge James Bennett said: “As Taylor was fighting back, he was punched in the back of the head by Vaafusuaga.
“Taylor fell to the ground and Vaafusuaga continued to punch him multiple times in the head while he lay on the ground.
“At the same time Ramos stomped on the head of Taylor multiple times.
“At this point Ramos has raised his arm to hit Taylor again with the hammer, but as he did so he was pulled away by Lausii. Ramos and Vaafusuaga then both moved towards Hayward.”
The fight lasted about a minute before the group left the area, but Mr Hayward continued to shout at them from the pokie room.
Ramos then ran back into the pokie room where he hit manager Shayne Turner in the head with a wooden chair leg, knocking him out.
The group fled before police arrived and were later arrested walking on a nearby street.
Misa was sentenced to four years in prison, with a two-year minimum term, while Ramos was jailed for 10 years, with a minimum of six.
A strike force established to combat gang crime between OneFour and other groups such as 21 District.
OneFour has repeatedly claimed it is not associated with a street gang.
Willett and Vaafusuaga were also convicted for their roles in the brawl.
Willett was convicted of two offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one of affray.
Vaafusuaga was convicted of two offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company.
He was sentenced to four years, two years non-parole.
Salek Sua, another OneFour rapper known was Lekks, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company and assault occasioning grievous bodily harm in company.
He is due in court on December 6.