Second man cops jail term for his role in Hungry Jacks assault

The judge said parity was important and sentenced the second man to the same term as the first.

The two men pleaded guilty to the assault occasioning bodily harm of another man in the drive-through of Hungry Jacks in South Toowoomba.

The second of two men to plead guilty to the assault of a drunk man in a Toowoomba Hungry Jacks drive-through has been handed a jail sentence but released on parole.

Callum Williams, 24, of Goondiwindi, had failed to front Toowoomba District Court last week when his co-offender Bradley Thomas Brown, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm in company arising from the incident in the early hours of June 27, last year.

The victim man, of similar age, had wandered drunk into Hungry Jacks only to find the cafe closed but the drive-through in operation.

However, because customers had to be in a vehicle to be served, the man had asked to get into the Uber which Williams and Brown had hired to take them on a burger run.

After some verbal back and forth, the pair had alighted from the vehicle and assaulted the victim who was thrown to the ground.

He sustained facial bruising and a cut lip in the assault, Crown prosecutor Ellen Fletcher told the court.

Williams pleaded guilty to the same charge.

His barrister Daniel Boddice told the court his client had been working up until last week when police located him on an arrest warrant and took him into custody overnight.

As a result his client had lost his job but he would be looking for other work upon release from the court, he said.

Judge Anthony Rafter SC sentenced Brown last week to nine months in jail but ordered he be released immediately on parole.

Citing the need for parity in sentencing, Judge Rafter imposed the same sentence on Williams.