Timothy Michael Langmead stands trial over wild street brawl in Ulverstone

A jury has heard the details of a wild street fight that allegedly left a man out cold in a cul-de-sac with head wounds after he was bashed repeatedly with a cricket bat. FULL DETAILS >>

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A JURY in a wounding trial has heard the details of a wild street fight in Tasmania’s North West which allegedly left a man out cold in a cul-de-sac with a deep gash to his head.

Timothy Michael Langmead is standing trial in the Supreme Court in Burnie after pleading not guilty to a charge of assault and another of wounding.

The jury was told by Crown Prosecutor Katie Edwards that Langmead, from West Ulverstone, had wounded a neighbour and assaulted his daughter as the brawl came to a head on March 2, 2019.

Police claim Langmead hit the female to the head with a metal crutch and wounded her father by hitting him repeatedly to the head with a cricket bat.

The night had started much like any other with her and her partner having a few drinks at her parents house in Pyang Place, West Ulverstone, the alleged female victim told the jury in evidence.

“We were out the front having a smoke when we heard someone “gobbing off, swearing and yelling,” she told the jury.

“We didn’t pay much attention till we heard him saying a name we recognised and accusing that bloke of owing him money for car parts. Soon we were yelling back at him and we went to the end of the drive to see who it was gobbing off.”

The woman told the court the bloke in the units across the road had a crutch under one arm.

The group met in the middle of the cul-de-sac and had words. The woman told the jury the accused then hit her with the crutch.

“Dad said ‘right you hit my daughter it is on’. I pushed the bloke and grabbed him by the head. I was fuming. I hit him, I shouldn’t have,” she said in evidence.

“He spat it ran up the steps of his unit and got handed a cricket bat.”

She said the next thing she knew, her father had been cracked up the back of the head with the bat and fell to his knees.

“He was bashing the shit out of him and he was out cold,” the woman said.

“He hit him six or eight times and I thought he had killed dad. I was screaming and people came running and he ran off.”

The woman told the jury she had picked up her father’s head and it “felt gooey and open” and blood was pouring out a big gash.

Her mother then rang and ambulance. The alleged victim recovered.

The trial continues.