Tyrone Edwin Delaney waved knife about after pub fight but escapes penalty

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to waving a knife about after fighting another man at a pub but escaped penalty. See why here.

The 23-year-old man got into a fight at the Criterion Hotel in Dalby from which he was charged with three offences.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man already serving a six-year jail term for a violent Toowoomba home invasion has been brought back before the city’s Magistrates Court for other offences of violence.

Tyrone Edwin Delaney was sentenced by the Toowoomba District Court in November last year after he was found guilty of bursting into a Hursley Road residence on the night of August 6, 2020, and assaulting two teenagers there.

He had pleaded not guilty, claiming he had not been at the house that night but had been there some time earlier to buy cannabis of a 15-year-old boy who lived there.

However, DNA from blood found on a lounge room light switch was matched to Delaney who was ultimately sentenced to six years in jail.

He will be able to apply for release on parole as of September next year.

Delaney appeared by video link from the prison on Friday to plead guilty to charges arising from a pub fight in Dalby on the night of July 11, 2020.

The court heard Delaney had been in the beer garden of the Criterion Hotel about 10.30pm when he was seen to take a large bladed knife from his pants wasteline and show it to mates.

A short time later he became involved in an argument with another male patron and the pair ended up squaring off and throwing punches.

During the scuffle, Delaney’s knife fell to the ground which he picked up after other patrons broke up the fight.

He had then waved the knife, which had a 23cm blade, at the girlfriend of the man he had been fighting, the court heard.

He pleaded guilty to public nuisance, possessing a knife in a public place and going armed so as to cause fear, all arising from those incidents.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine in Surfers Paradise on September 18, 2020.

The court heard on that occasion police had turned up at the residence at which Delaney was staying and spotted a line of cocaine on a dinner plate.

Two $5 notes which police suspected had been used to consume the drug were found next to the plate.

Magistrate Graham Lee noted Delaney had already spent 518 days in custody in total and convicted him but ordered no further penalty be imposed for the fresh matters.