Parramatta: Two men jailed for unprovoked bus station bashing
Two men have been sentenced after an unprovoked, drug-fuelled attack at a Parramatta bus station last year.
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Two young men will spend at least two years in jail after violently bashing three men in an unprovoked, drug-fuelled New Year’s Day attack last year.
Richard Minh Huy Cao, 20, of Miller, and Dylan McGregor-McDonald, 19, of Fairfield West, were sentenced by Judge Mark Buscombe in Penrith District Court on February 12 for the vicious 2019 attack.
The two men pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company and reckless wounding.
According to court documents, Cao and McGregor-McDonald had taken several Xanax tablets and consumed alcohol before the assault on Argyle St, Parramatta.
The documents state two of the victims were sitting at a bus stop at about 12.44am when McGregor-McDonald grabbed one of their watches and said “mad watch man”.
Feeling uncomfortable, the victim stood up and said “what mate?” to which McGregor-McDonald replied with aggression.
Cao then punched the first victim while McGregor-McDonald ran towards the second victim and punched him in the head.
Documents state the victims made it clear they did not want to fight, but the two men set upon one of them when he tripped and fell to the ground, kicking him several times.
A third victim attempted to step in the middle of the assault to check on the first victim before McGregor-McDonald kneed him twice in the face and punched him no less than nine times.
The first victim suffered a non-displaced fracture to the fibula among other injuries, while the third victim suffered a fractured orbital bone.
Cao’s lawyer asked Judge Buscombe to consider an intensive corrections order as his client had only physically hurt one of the victims.
McGregor-McDonald’s lawyer also asked for an intensive corrections order, saying her client had shown great remorse for his actions.
However, Judge Buscombe said a message had to be sent to deter violence.
He sentenced Cao to four years in jail with a non-parole period of two years and sentenced McGregor-McDonald to four years and four months in jail with a non-parole period of two years and two months.