Probation for misled attacker

AN ALLEGED bikie gang associate stomped on the head of an unconscious man as he and three mates beat him on the side of a Surfers Paradise street.

Dallas Morgan and his friends attacked Eden Green in a case of mistaken identity on Illawong Cres, Surfers Paradise, about 5.45pm on October 25 last year.

The attackers thought Mr Green had shot one of their friends in a home invasion, the court was told.

Mr Green had not shot anyone, and another man had committed the home invasion.

Morgan, 26, pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday to assault occasioning bodily harm, receiving tainted property, failing to provide his mobile phone password and breaching bail.

Magistrate Louisa Pink sentenced him to two years probation and fined him $300.

The court was told Morgan and the group began to follow Mr Green after they left a function in Surfers Paradise.

They kicked and punched him, and when Mr Green’s friends tried to intervene one of the group chased them away with a knife.

“(Mr Green) was assaulted to such an extent he was rendered unconscious,” Magistrate Pink said. “When he was clearly unconscious, and there is footage of all of this, he was repeatedly kicked and stomped to the head by you and another mate.”

Morgan, who is alleged to be an associate of members of the Mongols bikie gang, was accompanied at the time by James and Joshua Mau’u and another man.

The Mau’u brothers both pleaded guilty on October 15 and are expected to be sentenced on Monday.

Magistrate Pink said it was a last chance for Morgan, who is a New Zealand citizen and risks deportation if he is sentenced to more than 12 months in prison.

“You are not going to get a free pass on an ongoing basis,” she said. “If you don’t want to go back to New Zealand you need to make different decisions, starting now.”

Defence lawyer Michael Gatenby said Morgan was now clean of drugs and keen to move on.