WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Horrific moment a tourist is set upon by a gang of thugs after a night out – and what happens next will make you sick to your stomach
- Horrifying CCTV footage shows six people attack an unarmed tourist in Darwin
- Christmas Eve brawl left a 28-year man unconscious, naked and bleeding
- He was repeatedly punched, kicked, slapped and stomped on during the attack
- Tayarrah Gay Morris, 26, was the sixth attacker to plead guilty for the assault
Six viscous thugs who savagely bashed a tourist to the ground before repeatedly kicking him in the head and stealing his pants, have faced court over the horrifying attack.
Tayarrah Gay Morris, 26, appeared in the Supreme Court on Tuesday over her role in the frenzied assault in the early hours of Christmas Eve in 2020.
Sickening footage shows the group chasing the 28-year old stranger down following a short argument, after being kicked out of Monsoons Bar in Darwin.
The tourist is repeatedly kicked, punches and stomped on as he lays helpless on the road.
Morris pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering serious harm in court – making her the last of the six brawlers to make a guilty plea.
The six viscous thugs who savagely bashed a tourist to the ground before repeatedly kicking him in the head and stealing his pants (pictured), have now all faced court over the horrifying attack
She wiped away tears as the gruesome CCTV footage was played to the court, NT News reported.
The footage showed her standing over the man repeatedly slapping him to the face and punching him to the stomach.
The six-on-one attack is only briefly broken up as a bystander who swings a large wooden plank at the group before being chased away.
Moments later, the tourist’s unconscious body is unceremoniously dragged along the road to the kerbside.
In yet another bizarre moment of cruelty, Ashleigh Epiha, pulls down the man’s shorts and underwear, leaving him naked and bleeding.
Horrifying CCTV footage shows six people attack an unarmed 28-year old tourist in an assault labeled by crown prosecutor Timothy Weathall as ‘unprovoked and unwarranted’
Duol Gile-Lul (left) was handed a jail term of two years and ten months, suspended after six months. Ashleigh Epiha (right) received a two month suspended sentence
Crown prosecutor Timothy Wrathall said the tourist was ‘left for dead’ by his attackers describing the bashing as ‘unprovoked and unwarranted’.
The man was eventually helped by bystanders before being taken to Royal Darwin Hospital, suffering a mild brain injury.
Justice Judith Kelly described the footage of the ‘vicious’ attack as confronting.
Defence barrister Peter Bellach said Morris ‘lived with the shame’ of the attack and was still feeling the consequences for her actions 18 months later.
Morris’s bail was extended until her sentencing hearing on Wednesday August 3.
The unconscious man after being stomped on multiple times was then unceremoniously dragged along the road to the kerbside
Kian Wise (left) was handed a seven months sentence suspended after 48 days. Karl Gruber (right) was given a three years in jail suspended after one year
The court heard the fellow attackers had been sentenced.
Karl Gruber was given a three years in jail suspended after one year.
Maea Tongamoa was sentenced to four years with two years non-parole.
Duol Gile-Lul was handed a term of two years and ten months, suspended after six months.
Ashleigh Epiha was given a two month suspended sentence and Kian Wise was handed a seven months sentence suspended after 48 days.
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