Gok Shoul jailed for headbutting, threatening police, brawling, bashing men with baseball bat
A St Albans thug who attacked two men with a baseball bat in front of frightened parents and children during a brawl outside a Collingwood school also headbutted a PSO and assaulted several police officers during an 18-month reign of terror.
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A violent menace who assaulted three police and bashed two men with a baseball bat during a wild Collingwood brawl has been jailed.
Gok Shoul’s 18-month reign of terror across Melbourne began with the infamous brawl that took place outside Collingwood College on December 15, 2017.
Shoul, from St Albans, attacked two victims with a baseball in front of frightened parents and children.
Shoul – who was capsicum sprayed before he was arrested – claimed police called him an “animal”.
During a shocking November 5, 2018 attack in Newport, a witness said they saw Shoul beating another man while he lay unconscious on the street and then tried to stop the witness giving the man first aid.
When police arrived, Shoul headbutted and taunted an officer, saying: “What’s your name? I want to know so I can find you on the street.”
Shoul tried to run away while handcuffed and bite an officer several times. He kicked two other officers.
Shoul was later released, but his victim spent a week in hospital.
On July 6 last year he was involved in a gang brawl outside the Derrimut Hotel just before 11.30pm.
He headbutted a protective services officer as he was led away and was later deemed “too aggressive” to be interviewed when he was taken to Sunshine police station.
Shoul launched a verbal tirade at police.
“I will beat you guys up any day, anywhere,” he said.
“I’ve already done one of your sergeants so I don’t really give a f*** …
“I will f*** you up with no hesitation and I already did that before so I don’t really care, you know what I mean?”
Shoul 22, was sentenced in the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on January 15 to a minimum nine months’ jail after pleading guilty to three charges of assaulting police and several charges of affray.
Shoul – through his counsel – claimed he was “heavily intoxicated” during each violent event.
He also claimed he was “singled out for attention” and that he believed police approached him with a “stereotypical view”.
Prosecutor Ash McCulloch said Shoul’s “pure thuggery” was “unprovoked”.
Magistrate Mike Wardell said Shoul committed “violence on the streets of Melbourne” which was “unabated” and “alarming”.
“He routinely headbutts others,” Magistrate Wardell said.
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Magistrate Wardell said the Collingwood brawl where Shoul and others were “armed with weapons in a public space” was a “very serious example of affray”.
“(The brawl) was witnessed by parents picking up their children from a nearby school who were in fear,” Magistrate Wardell said.
Shoul was jailed for a maximum 18 months.
He had spent 61 days in custody at the time of sentencing.