Trainer’s attacker jailed
Another Hogan on the TV tipped for stardom
A MAN who claimed he assaulted his bodybuilder girlfriend’s trainer after suspecting he had encouraged steroid use has been jailed for three months.
Ryan Horner, 33, was charged with two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm in relation to drunken assaults on two men following a cele- bration dinner in Southport on October 11 last year.
Horner pushed his girlfriend’s trainer, Daniel Delahunty, through a window, then returned hours later to headbutt another man, Bradley Vella, and strike him on the back of the head with a crowbar.
Horner claimed his fears that Mr Delahunty had encouraged his girlfriend to use steroids fuelled the attacks.
But in the Southport Magis- trates Court yesterday, Magistrate Catherine Pirie said that excuse or mindset didn’t apply to the assault on Mr Vella.
“There was some suspicion on his part that Delahunty may have encouraged alleged steroid use in the training of his partner,” she said.
“That reasoning, if it could be said to be that, and that fear, if it could be said to be that, did not apply when it came to Vella.
“Vella was not involved in the training or any purported steroid use, if that is even true, and I don’t know that it is.”
The court was told that Horner had drunkenly performed a martial arts exhibition and smashed a glass candle-holder before he and his host got into an argument.
“Horner may not have intended to push Delahunty through the window of his own home but his behaviour was reckless,” she said.
Ms Pirie said Horner re- turned hours later armed with a 50cm crowbar, claiming that he was concerned about his girlfriend.
Horner headbutted Mr Vella while wearing a motorbike helmet, then struck him with the crowbar.
Ms Pirie sentenced Horner to a 15-month head sentence to be suspended after serving three months in custody. He was ordered to pay $3000 in compensation to Mr Vella and $2000 to Mr Delahunty. YOU might not recognise her face just yet, but Queensland’s newest television reporter is used to being in the spotlight.
After all, she comes from Aussie showbiz royalty. Mylee Hogan is the granddaughter of Crocodile Dundee star and Aussie comedy icon Paul Hogan.
Her biggest fan, her “Pa”, is cheering her on from his Los Angeles home as she starts work as the Channel 7 newsroom’s latest recruit.
“He is always telling people that his granddaughter is a reporter and she does this, and that I am going to be a star one day,” Mylee said.
The daughter of Hogan’s son Brett, Mylee has distant memories of being caught up in her grandfather’s fame, walking red carpets with him when she was a little girl.
“But to us he is just Pa,” Mylee said.
“I was not old enough when all of that was so big to realise he was who he is.”