Jake Steele pleads guilty to drunken assaults Kunda Park strip club

CCTV footage has captured the moment a Sunshine Coast concreter went berserk at a strip club after being ejected and savagely assaulted two staff members “UFC” style.

Jake Steele was jailed following his sentence in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Picture: Patrick Woods

A Noosaville concreter has been jailed for his “relentless" assault on two men at a strip club, which left one man with a fractured kneecap and another with bruised ribs.

Jake Steele’s acts of brutal violence were shown to Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Tuesday after his pleas of guilty to six offences including two counts of assaulting in a public place while adversely affected and one count of resisting authorised persons after being refused entry.

The two vicious assaults occurred at a Kunda Park strip club on the evening of March 31 where the 26-year-old was ejected from the venue.

In the disturbing CCTV, Steele can be seen shaping up to the venue manager, before the man pushes him away.

A short melee erupts, with Steele trading multiple blows with his first victim before the fight continues off screen.

Steele has ties to Liverpool, NSW. Picture: Facebook

The second video shown to the court showed Steele escalate his alcohol fuelled violence, where he can be seen loitering outside the venue in front of two security guards.

Steele then takes his shirt off and starts to rain down blows on a security officer before the second victim falls to the ground.

A flurry of punches and kicks is then delivered to the second victim by the 26-year-old, all while a bystander tries to sheepishly break it up with an umbrella.

The concreter sees the bystander doing this and acts aggressively towards him, before the video concludes.

Police prosecutor Mel Pyke said when Steele was picked up by police after the assault, he returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.286 per cent.

The court heard Steele came into the view of police again only four weeks later at the Coolum Beach Hotel on April 27, which led to him being charged with public nuisance, obstructing police and contravening a direction.

He pleaded guilty to six charges. Picture: Facebook

Sergeant Pyke referred to the victim impact statement of Steele’s first victim, who suffered financial and personal hardship due to the assault fracturing his kneecap.

The police prosecutor said the second victim suffered injured ribs.

Defence lawyer Katie Paterson said Steele was grossly intoxicated when he was asked to leave the two venues during both sets of offending. She said he had no recollection of what happened.

Ms Paterson said the Noosaville man, who was from Liverpool in NSW, drank heavily due to a decline in mental health and came from a prejudicial upbringing.

She said he accepted responsibility for his actions, with medical documents before the court stating Steele was in a “dark place” following the end of a relationship.

The court heard the concreter would most likely lose his home at Noosaville if jailed as he would not be able to pay the mortgage.

Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist labelled the assaults as “relentless”, and felt the video showed a person who had a “predilection” to the mixed martial arts competition “UFC".

Steele was jailed for 18 months, with a parole release date set at November 29.

Originally published as Jake Steele pleads guilty to drunken assaults Kunda Park strip club