Quinton Tickell pushed over young woman leaving her with head injury leading to jail sentence

The Toowoomba man was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for assaulting a young woman but he won’t serve any extra time. See why here:

A Toowoomba man who pleaded guilty to pushing over a young woman leaving her with concussion has been sentenced to four months imprisonment but he won’t serve any extra jail time.

The young woman had attended the home of Quinton Tickell on July 16, 2023, asking for her mother who she believed was inside the house, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

A court order precluding Tickell from having any contact with the woman or her mother was in place at the time, police prosecutor Rohan Brewster-Webb told the court.

Tickell had told the young woman to go away but when she refused, believing her mother was inside, Tickell had pushed her a number of times to get her away from the door, he said.

However, the young woman eventually fell on the driveway, hitting her head and leaving her with concussion and headaches for a couple of days, the court heard.

Tickell appeared via video link from Wolston Park Correctional Centre to plead guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and breaching bail.

The prisoner appeared before Toowoomba Magistrates Court via video link from Wolston Park Correctional Centre to plead guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm.

Mr Brewster-Webb said Tickell had only a two-page criminal history but he had been found guilty of child sexual assault charges after a Toowoomba District Court trial in November 2023 and was now serving a five-and-a-half year jail sentence.

Tickell had a full-time release date on that sentence of 2029 but he was eligible to apply for release on parole in June 2026, he said.

Magistrate Kay Ryan noted Tickell had spent 80 days in custody in relation to these charges and that she would sentence him to a term of imprisonment that would not interfere with his parole eligibility date on his other sentence.

Ms Ryan sentenced Tickell to four months in jail on the assault occasioning bodily harm charge and convicted but imposed no other penalty on the breaching bail offence.