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Ayden Tapp, partner of TikTok’s Skyla Rogers, in drunken rage.

A Sydney TikTok star whose father is a former NRL legend supported her boyfriend in court as he faced his punishment for terrorising four women in a drunken rage.

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A young tradie has been castigated in court after he flew into a drunken rage at a mother and three teenage girls and broke the woman’s car keys when she rolled over his bag of alcohol.

Ayden Tapp, 26, lost control when a woman accidentally ran over a bag of alcohol he placed in front of her car after celebrating January 26 at Lilli Pilli Baths, a popular swimming spot in Sydney’s south.

Police charged Tapp with four counts of intimidation and one count of reckless property damage after he snapped the woman’s car keys off in the ignition and threatened to bash her, her daughter and her friends.

Tapp was accompanied at court by his pregnant girlfriend Skyla Rogers, who is the daughter of former NRL legend Mat Rogers and a TikTok star in her own right with 41,000 followers.

“The accused was aggressive when he yelled at the first victim, saying ‘where do you think you’re going, you just ran over $1200 of stuff’,” agreed police facts state.

“The accused leant into the driver’s side window and grabbed the keys from the ignition … breaking the key in half and leaving the broken tip in the ignition.”

Ayden Tapp. 26.
Ayden Tapp. 26.

Alarmed witnesses then stepped in as Tapp’s rage escalated and he refused to return the broken key handle.

“The accused had scrunched fists and held his arms out in a staunch stance while he was yelling,” agreed police facts state.

“He started commanding the four of them to leave, saying ‘f*** off out of here’ when one of the victims explained to him that he broke the key and they were unable to leave.”

Tapp then started walking up and down the narrow street yelling “where are they, I’m going to bash them”.

At Sutherland Local Court Tapp pleaded guilty to all five charges and Magistrate Scott Nash sentenced him to an 12-month community corrections order without supervision.

“You’ve been dealt with before for a common assault and domestic violence matters, which tells me a bit about your background and that’s obviously troubling,” Mr Nash said.

“You have to get yourself in order.”

Tapp and partner Skyla Rogers.
Tapp and partner Skyla Rogers.

Tapp’s Legal Aid solicitor Sara Crane told the court Tapp thought his sister’s iPhone was inside the bag the woman accidentally ran over as she navigated the narrow access road while picking up her daughter and two of her friends.

“He was intoxicated and he took issue with what he perceived to be a flippant attitude that they had gone over his sister’s bag,” Ms Crane said.

Ms Crane also told the court Tapp had been sober for seven weeks due to Ms Rogers’ request he desist prior to their first child’s birth.

In a burnout gender reveal documented on social media in January which racked up 2.2 million views, Tapp and Ms Rogers revealed they were having a boy.

It will be the couple’s first child and dual-code international Mat Rogers’ first grandchild.

It is far from Tapp’s first brush with the law, with the tattooed tradie previously serving community-based prison terms and community orders for driving and domestic violence offences.

In January 2018 Tapp was sentenced to a nine-month suspended prison sentence at Nowra Local Court for reckless and furious driving and disqualified from driving for 18 months.

At the same court appearance he was fined $800 for mid-range drink driving and $659 for having unrestrained passengers.

The suspended prison sentence was called up and restarted as an intensive corrections order in December 2018 after he was convicted of three counts of domestic assault and received an 18-month supervised community corrections order.

Less than a year later in September 2019 Tapp’s community corrections order for domestic assault was called up and restarted after he was caught mid-range drink driving for the second time, sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order and fined $660.

Tapp’s most recent community order only expired four months before his drunken tantrum at Lilli Pilli Baths.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/st-george-shire/ayden-tapp-partner-of-tiktoks-skyla-rogers-in-drunken-rage/news-story/0c9a9a98c59a86104323bf42f1041d74