Phoenix Tysonn: Former Ray White Woollahra Paddington real estate agent escapes conviction for driving while suspended

A fallen former eastern suburbs real estate agent, who was serving home detention for a violent assault, has had a “come to Jesus moment” after being caught driving while suspended. Here’s what unfolded in court.

Phoenix Tysonn leaves Waverley Local Court on Wednesday. Photo: Elliott Stewart

A disgraced former eastern suburbs real estate agent has had a “come to Jesus moment” after he was caught driving while suspended in the midst of a home detention sentence, imposed over a violent assault at Thredbo.

Former Ray White Woollahra Paddington agent Phoenix Tysonn fronted Waverley Local Court on Wednesday, when he avoided convictions after previously pleading guilty to charges of driving while suspended and driving an unregistered vehicle.

Court documents state the 30-year-0ld was driving a BMW on Grove St, Bondi, when he was stopped by police for roadside testing on June 9.

Despite returning negative results to alcohol and drug tests, police checks on Tysonn’s licence found he had been suspended on March 11 due to a fine default.

“I didn’t know I was suspended. My life’s been a mess. I moved addresses but haven’t changed it with RMS,” he told police.

Phoenix Tysonn. Picture: Facebook

Tysonn further explained he “honestly … had no idea” the car registration had expired.

The driving incident was not Tysonn’s first brush with the law.

The Daily Telegraph previously reported that court documents revealed he had struck a woman in the face with a stick, before spitting in the face of a person who had tried to intervene, at Thredbo in January last year.

He pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault over that incident and was originally sentenced, in Queanbeyan Local Court, to nine months in jail, with a five-month non-parole period.

However, Tysonn successfully appealed and was re-sentenced in February to a nine-month intensive correction order, with five months to be served by way of home detention. The period of home detention expired on July 19.

Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge said on Wednesday that Tysonn had a “significant criminal history”.

Defence lawyer Petros Macarounas said his client had since registered his vehicle, paid his fines and had no demerit points on his licence.

Phoenix Tysonn was a real estate agent in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Picture: Facebook

While accepting the incident took place during Tysonn’s home detention, Mr Macarounas said “no action was taken by the parole board”.

The court heard Tysonn had failed to update his address with Service NSW due to his “mental state” last year, when his employment was terminated and the possibility of facing jail.

Mr Macarounas described the driving incident was an “honest mistake”, while acknowledging his client “probably could’ve taken more steps” to prevent it.

He also told the court his client’s car had been purchased midway through last year and Tysonn “assumed wrongly that it had 12 months registration”.

After Mr Macarounas submitted Tysonn hadn’t committed similar offences in the past, Ms Milledge interjected, saying “that’s probably one thing he hasn’t got on his record”.

Mr Macarounas concluded by saying his client has had “his come to Jesus moment” and was “trying to move on” from his past actions.

Tysonn was ultimately sentenced to a nine-month conditional release order, without conviction, over the driving offences.

“You can’t keep going on like this,” Ms Milledge told Tysonn, while declaring he had “turned a corner”.