Mohammed Baltagi: sentenced for assault on Liverpool parking ranger

After he failed to get a mate out of a parking fine an enraged Mohammad Baltagi marched back to confront a Liverpool parking ranger and coward punched him from behind, shattering his jaw.

Mohammed Baltagi leaves Campbelltown Courthouse with his lawyer.

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A powerful young man has been convicted of a horrific assault which left a parking ranger with a broken jaw in southwest Sydney.

Mohammed Baltagi, 21, was a passenger in an illegally parked Subaru Impreza on Norfolk Serviceway, Liverpool which had come to the attention of two parking rangers in April last year.

The Hinchinbrook man tried to rescue his friend from a parking fine, harassing one of the rangers and saying “Why did you take photos of our car? Just delete it. Don’t issue a fine, just delete all those photos”.

A Liverpool Council ranger was knocked unconscious. Picture: Supplied

The young man grabbed the arm of the ranger holding the mobile phone, which had taken the photos, and battled to take it off him.

Baltagi appeared to give up and hopped back into the car but the driver only travelled a short distance before doing a U-turn and coming back to the rangers to restart the madness.

The two men verbally abused the parking rangers once more, triggering nearby eyewitnesses to contact police.

Baltagi went to walk away once more before he changed his mind, marched back and coward punched the parking ranger in the jaw from behind. The 35-year-old victim had blood pouring out of his mouth and later required surgery to install a permanent plate in his jaw.

As the 21-year-old fled the scene, he assaulted a woman who had filmed the ordeal by grabbing her arm.

This picture was circulated on social media as police searched for Baltagi in relation to the assault.

Baltagi’s lawyer said the Hinchinbrook man had no explanation for his violence, only that “it could’ve been dealt with in another way”.

Campbelltown Local Court heard a week before the assault, while jet skiing, Baltagi had pulled a drowning person out of the water and performed CPR however, the individual wasn’t able to be saved.

Magistrate Shane McAnulty said the senseless violence was “mind-blowing”.

“(The parking rangers) have a job to do,” he said. “They are out there doing a job like anyone else. They don’t expect to be belted. (The victim) has a trauma that he has to live with for the rest of his life.”

Baltagi was convicted of three counts of assault, including reckless assault causing grievous bodily harm, and placed on a two-year Intensive Corrections Order which is a jail sentence to be served in the community.

He was also ordered to complete 350 hours of community service.