Abdul Amin jailed for six years for stabbing Bachelorette star Paddy Colliar

A convicted child sex offender who stabbed a Bachelorette contestant is behind bars after the court heard he “lacked remorse” for the attack.

A convicted child sex offender who stabbed a reality TV star working as a topless waiter told “lie after lie” during his trial, and is a “very dangerous man towards people he does not like,” a court has found.

In the District Court on Thursday morning, Judge Ian White sentenced Abdul Mohammad Amin to six years in prison for stabbing former Bachelorette and F-Boy Island contestant Patrick “Paddy” Colliar in the back at a 60th birthday party in a pole dancing clinic in 2021.

Amin, now 27, had pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated causing harm with intent to cause harm, but was found guilty at trial by jury earlier this year.

Abdul Kadws Mohammad Amin leaves the Adelaide Magistrates Court after an earlier appearance. Picture: NewsWire/Brenton Edwards

The court heard Amin had taken issue with Mr Colliar’s appearance at the party because he was “caucasian”.

Standing in the dock to hear his sentence, Amin continuously smirked through the hearing as Judge White said he would have, if not intercepted, “willingly continued his attack” on Mr Colliar.

“You deliberately and swiftly stabbed him in the back left region of his lower back. By miracle, no major organs were affected by your unlawful stabbing,” Judge White said.

“It was a savage and unwarranted response by you. He had prevented you from further assaulting your girlfriend’s sister. You reacted in a rage which continued after you inflicted the wound. You had to be physically restrained by many male members who attended the party.

“Had you not been restrained, in my view, there was no doubt you were going to continue your attack on Mr Colliar in his injured state.

“Given your evidence at trial was one lie after another, I place little value in what you say for the purposes of sentencing,” he said.

Amin has a previous conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse, which Judge White said showed his disrespect towards women.

“It’s significance is that it reveals and involves disrespect towards a girl aged 16 when you were aged 19.

“The evidence of that disrespect towards women has re-emerged.”

Judge White said Amin was smart enough to have started studying Year 12 maths when he was only 15 -years-old, but that he considered him “dangerously intelligent”.

He said Amin had done “little to inspire confidence” that he could rehabilitate and cease offending in the future.

“You have not accepted the verdict, and you lack remorse,” Judge White said.

“It was suggested to me that this charge was stupid and violent. I cannot agree it was stupid. It was a deliberate choice you made based on a simmering dislike of Mr Colliar from the moment you saw him. This was no doubt made worse by his intervention.”

He sentenced Amin to six years in prison, with a non parole period of four years, backdated to the date he was taken into custody.

As he was led away to the cells, he blew loved ones a kiss from the dock.

Paddy Colliar’s victim impact statement

Prosecutor Matt DeLorme read the victim impact statement of Mr Colliar, who was not present, to the District Court last month.

Mr Colliar said initially he felt numb after realising he had been stabbed.

“But then when it sank in and I understood that I could have been killed I was devastated,” he said.

Mr Colliar said he couldn’t sleep or work after the assault because he was an “emotional wreck” and left Adelaide to start a new life.

‘My flashbacks are always about how he stabbed me the first time and then how he tried to come at me again while I was lying on the ground,” he said.

“I still feel enormous relief for the young woman who may have been seriously hurt by this man and I am proud of what I did to help her.”

Known to many for his time on hit TV shows including the Bachelorette, F-Boy Island and Bachelor in Paradise, Mr Colliar was used to being in the spotlight.

But over the past four years, he found himself in the middle of more drama after being stabbed by Amin.

Amin, now 26, was arrested in August 2021 after emergency services were called to a pole dancing studio in Para Hills West.

There, they found Mr Colliar with a stab wound to his back.

During the trial, the jury heard the reality star was stabbed after intervening in a domestic altercation.

Mr Colliar told the jury that he had “intervened” after seeing Amin thrashing a woman around “like a ragdoll”, before Amin then turned on him.

He said it wasn’t until a young girl at the party said he’d been stabbed that he noticed the blood “pouring” out of him.

He was found guilty by a jury last month of causing harm with intent

They further found the offence was aggravated because Amin used a weapon – a flick knife he had argued was only used to cut the birthday cake.

Former Bachelorette contestant Paddy Colliar outside court. Picture: Keryn Steven

Last month Mr DeLorme said Amin showed disrespect throughout the court proceedings.

“I noticed his behaviour when the victim was giving evidence, was in my view, an attempt to intimidate the victim as much as he could,” Judge Ian White commented.

“He did that by staring intently at him during the entirety of his evidence that I saw.”

Aaron Fornarino, for Amin, told the court his client, who fled to Australia as a refugee at seven from Iraq, maintains he did not stab Mr Colliar.

Originally published as Abdul Amin jailed for six years for stabbing Bachelorette star Paddy Colliar