No conviction for punching club bouncer
A FURNITURE removalist punched a bouncer in the head multiple times while he was being thrown out of a Glitter Strip nightclub for fighting.
Jarmane Tureiti Wilson walked from Southport Magistrates Court yesterday on probation and with no conviction recorded for the late-night attack.
The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm, public nuisance and obstructing police.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Erin Livingston said Wilson was on the dancefloor at Havana RnB Nightclub on September 28 last year when he punched another man in the face about 1.30am.
Security intervened and began to remove the Kiwi national from the premises.
“He has turned towards the security guard and punched him the face multiple times,” Sgt Livingston said.
KERRY-ANN Dodds has skydived, bungee jumped and cage dived with sharks.
Now for her next bucket list item, the … Gold Coast Marathon.
After making the list in her late 30s with a friend, the mother-ofthree has found time to tick items off one by one.
“I don’t know what made me want to do a marathon but four years ago I was making a bucket list and said to myself that ‘by 42 I should run a marathon’.” Mrs Dodds turned 42 last weekend.
“It’ll be one kilometre for every year I’ve been alive.
“This year I was looking at the list and saw what I wrote and now here I am.”
Mrs Dodds has experience by her side in husband Hunter – who has won multiple ultra-marathons – as she prepares for the event on July 5.
“I’m his little pet project,” she said.
“He’s been training with me doing a program he designed.
“He’ll run with me on the day. I get my own personal pacer.”
Originally from South Africa, Mrs Dodds said her next bucket list item would again involve running and allow her to spend time in her country of birth.
“If I can qualify, I want to do the Comrades Marathon in Durban, which is an 89km ultra-marathon.
“If I can run the Gold Coast Marathon in under four hours and 50 minutes, I’ll qualify to compete in it.”
Visit goldcoastmarathon.com .au/enter for information about ticket prices and how to enter the event.
The punches left the bouncer with a cut on his face as well as swelling.
Magistrate Michelle Dooley sentenced Wilson to 18 months probation and ordered he pay the victim $500 in compensation.
“Your behaviour is not accepted and it will not be accepted,” she said. “If you continue in behaving this way you will get convicted and you will be deported.
“I am sure you have read in newspapers that is what is happening these days.”
Ms Dooley said Wilson had a “bright future” and suggested he keep it that way by staying out of nightclubs.
Defence solicitor Ashkan Tai, of Ashkan Tai Lawyers, said the fight on the dancefloor started because the other man had said something to Wilson’s girlfriend.
“He should have been the bigger man and walked away but he was drunk,” he said.
Mr Tai said Wilson made a “very bad mistake”.
He said the father worked as a furniture removalist which kept his mind “calm”.
“It seems as though he has abstained from alcohol since the event as well.”
Mr Tai said Wilson accepted that police and security guards were doing their job.
The court was told Wilson was willing to undergo counselling and alcohol treatment.