Budgewoi basher Tyson McGorm released from prison but under strict supervision order

He left his victim with two collapsed lungs and in renal failure and once released from prison described himself as like a “ticking time bomb”. Now, faced with the prospect of violent reoffending, a court has acted.

Tyson McGorm has been placed under a strict supervision order.

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A KANWAL man who committed a near-fatal assault that left his victim with two collapsed lungs and in renal failure described himself as like a “ticking time bomb” upon his release from prison, a court has heard.

On Tuesday, April 30, Tyson John McGorm, now 25, was slapped with an additional three year supervision order by a NSW Supreme Court judge following the completion of his custodial sentence.

He will be required to persist with psychiatric treatment, as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and comply with a weekly reported schedule and a curfew, after medical experts contended he was of such a “high risk of further violent offending”.

The State contended McGorm “uses violence as a means of problem solving” and “does not have the self-control to regulate or stop himself”. He possessed a “proclivity for having weapons” and a substance abuse problem that fuelled violent behaviour.

Justice Michael Walton fixed the supervision order at three years on the advice that it would be a long enough term for McGorm to complete rehabilitation.

In 2012, McGorm was convicted of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a brutal assault at Budgewoi.

McGorm, then 18, and three associates, had been drinking at a club when a verbal altercation broke out with two fellow patrons, aged 47 and 53.

Later that night, when McGorm and his friends left the venue in a vehicle they spotted their victims walking home.

McGorm and one other man jumped from their car and a fight broke out.

During the ensuing melee, one victim was stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver, suffered renal failure and collapsed lungs. According to court documents, the man, 47, was not expected to survive his injuries.

McGorm was also witnessed running towards this victim, who has laying on the ground, jump with both feet in the air and land on the victim’s head.

The sentencing judge at the time noted the nature of McGorm’s violence had been “gratuitous”.

While on parole in October 2017, McGorm was charged and convicted for driving while unlicensed, refusing to supply a sample, possession of methylamphtemine and of a knife.

Then in November 2017 he was charged with wounding with intent to cause serious bodily harm in relation to a brawl at Bolton Point in Lake Macquarie. His parole was revoked.

These charges were eventually dropped and McGorm was released back into the community in May 2018.

The court heard that it was in July 2018 after a four day bender during which McGorm used methylamphetamine and heroin he was assessed at Wyong Hospital and described himself as “like a ticking time bomb”. By September he had been admitted to the hospital suffering from a drug-induced psychosis.