Blood left on walls and floor in violent home invasion on the Gold Coast

An ice addict stormed into a Gold Coast home and began to brutally beat one of the occupants leaving blood on the walls and floor of the home.

AN ICE addict stormed into a Gold Coast home and began to brutally beat one of the occupants leaving him with a broken nose and fractured eye socket.

The attack left blood on the walls and floor of the home’s hallway.

Cory John Reading pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court yesterday to burglary and assault occasioning bodily harm.

Judge Katherine McGinness sentenced him to three years in prison with parole release yesterday after he had served 300 days in custody.

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But Reading remained in custody with an arrest warrant out in New South Wales for unrelated matters.

Documents tendered to the court said Reading and another person banged on the door of the Gold Coast home about 3am on February 10 last year.

They burst in and began to hit Daniel Cooke around the head.

His flatmate Sophie Rees called police.

During the attack Mr Cooke was hit, kicked and struck with a “heavy object” to the knee and told to “stay down (expletive)”.

Mr Cooke ran from the home.

“After hearing the defendant’s car leave Ms Rees came out of her bedroom and saw blood on the floor and the walls of the hallway,” the documents said.

“She also noticed the large hole in the wall.”

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Mr Cooke was taken to Robina Hospital with a broken nose, fractured eye socket, injury to his knee, cut to his forehead and bruise to his shoulder.

Reading was not arrested until days later when he attended the probation and parole office in Burleigh Heads.

Reading’s lawyer Joe Wicking, of Howden Saggers Lawyers, said Reading would face extradition proceedings in Southport Magistrates Court today.