Sonny Attard: Brighton Le Sands car jacker jailed for six years

A Sydney man who subjected a woman to a horrific ordeal, ordering her to drive before repeatedly attacking her, has been handed a lengthy jail term for the brutal incident.

Sonny Attard, 26, who was today jailed for a violent carjacking in Kogarah last year.

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The man who went on a wild drug binge which ended with a woman stabbed and a crash that left him fighting for life in a coma has been jailed for six years.

The Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday heard Pyrmont man Sonny Attard’s carjacking of the woman was “opportunistic” and would have left her “terrified”.

However, mid-way through his sentencing was halted.

The scene of the car crash on the corner of Crawford Road and President Ave. Picture: Christian Gilles

“Your honour there is something wrong with my bowels may I go to the bathroom,” Attard interrupted.

The 26-year-old had asked police for help in Kogarah after taking cannabis, heroin and meth before being taken to St George Hospital last July, the court was told when his sentencing resumed.

From there, he broke out of the hospital by running through a glass door and jumped into the car of a woman who he subjected to a horrific ordeal.

The woman was just getting out of her car outside her unit block when Attard ordered she drive him to Maroubra.

Emergency services had worked on scene on both Attard and his victim to save their lives. Picture: Christian Gilles

“Hurry up, I’ll f***ing kill you. Just drive,” he told the 52-year-old woman

Not satisfied with her driving, Attard punched her to the face three times.

When he again wasn’t happy with her driving he struck her to the neck and head with a multi-tool so ferociously the wound left her bone exposed.

“Im gonna f***ing kill you, don’t you dare take me back to the cop shop,” Attard told the victim.

“Don’t try and run and get out of the car. I will kill you.”

The woman eventually managed to escape and fled to a nearby property, covered in bruises and blood, the court heard.

Attard will be eligible for parole in 2023.

Attard was then left fighting for life after slamming the car into a wall on President Ave so violently he needed to be placed into a coma.

He had pleaded guilty to a number of charges in relation to the incident earlier this year.

“He was acting irrationally, his demeanour would have been terrifying for the victim,” Judge Garry Neilson said.

“He acted in a violent manner not only inflicting the wounds he did but inflicting the actual bodily harm.”

Judge Neilson sentenced Attard to an aggregate jail term of six years.

He will first be eligible for parole after serving four years in jail.

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