Gwandalan: Corey Allen Parry sentenced over shovel, baseball bat attack after burnout

Terrified neighbours screamed “no weapons, no weapons” when two men armed with a baseball bat and shovel showed up to a neighbourhood fight sparked by a burnout, a court has heard.

Parry was sentenced after the street fight at Gwandalan in February last year. Picture: Facebook

The second of two men armed with a baseball bat and a shovel, who bludgeoned neighbours after a fracas at Gwandalan Bowling Club, has been sentenced.

Corey Allen Parry, 27, of Gwandalan, appeared via video link at Gosford District Court on Friday after pleading guilty to reckless wounding and grievous bodily harm in company, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.

Parry had pleaded not guilty to the offences but changed his pleas on the eve of his trial.

His guilty pleas also came after his co-accused Luke Joel West, 27, of Summerland Point, was convicted and sentenced in Wyong Local Court in April to a minimum of two years and six months jail for the same four offences.

Luke Joel West was sentenced in Wyong Local Court in April. Picture: (AAP Image/Sue Graham)

The court heard a couple arrived home after work to their property on Imga St, Gwandalan, about 5.30pm on February 19 last year when they saw their front lawn was torn up by tyre marks as if someone had done a burnout and “lost control”.

Their side Colorbond fence was also damaged.

They reviewed CCTV footage from the front of their home and saw a grey Suzuki Swift skidding across their lawn.

They showed the footage to their next-door neighbour who recognised the car and knew where the owner lived. He had seen it doing burnouts earlier in the day.

The man, his partner’s father and his neighbour went to the car owner’s house, where they saw the vehicle was parked outside. They wanted to speak to him about paying for the damage to the front yard and fence but no one was home.

The house was near Gwandalan Bowling Club so the three men went inside and recognised the car owner’s brother in the gaming room.

The neighbours went inside Gwandalan Bowling Club where they found the brother of the man who owned the car which ripped up their lawn. Picture: file

They confronted the owner’s brother when Parry and West came to his aid and an argument involving pushing and shoving broke out.

The groups were separated but another fight kicked off in the gaming machine room before the men were all ejected from the club.

The two neighbours, who had suffered minor cuts in the fracas, went home and started drinking out the front of their homes where they were joined by a group of other residents all keen to hear about the damage to the lawn and the ensuing pub fight.

West went to work with a shovel, belting the neighbours

The facts state one of the neighbours was on his mobile phone to Parry, who he had known since Parry was 14, and was urging him to come around so they could sort it out.

About 9pm Parry, West and another man turned up in a white ute armed with a baseball bat, shovel and a metal bar, respectively, as terrified residents cried “no weapons, no weapons”.

The court heard in the ensuing melee West bludgeoned the two neighbours with the shovel over the head, leaving one with a large gaping wound to the back of his skull, fractured eye socket and bruising in the outline of the shovel head on his ribs.

He woke up in the back of an ambulance.

The other neighbour suffered a badly broken jaw in two places, which required two metal plates, and a 5cm cut to his head.

The court heard Parry either hit both men with the baseball bat he was carrying or a closed fist.

Parry pleaded guilty to belting both victims with either a baseball bat or his fists. He also kneed a woman to the face. Picture: Facebook

He also kneed the female partner of one of the neighbours in the face in what Judge Alistair Abadee described as a “degrading” act.

Parry’s barrister told the court his client had consumed 15 drinks and was very intoxicated at the time.

He said Parry was suffering mental issues stemming from adult ADHD, his terminally ill grandfather, problems with his girlfriend and depression.

Judge Abadee said Perry’s offending was marginally less serious than West’s but given his late guilty pleas, Parry was not eligible for the same 25 per cent discount on his sentence.

Parry was sentenced to three years and nine months jail with a non-parole period of two years.

With time served since his arrest he will be eligible for release on March 14 next year.