A YOUNG man told police he handled a situation badly, when he lashed out punching a former school friend five times in the head, leading to a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm the Bathurst Local Court heard on Monday.
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Christopher Lawrence Boardman pleaded guilty to the charge through solicitor Mick Madden with a conviction recorded at the Bathurst Court House.
Magistrate Jan Stevenson, without proceeding to a sentence, ordered Boardman of Beavis Place to enter the bond as an alternative to jail over what had been a vicious assault on the former school friend he had offered a lift home.
Police prosecutor, Sergeant Brett Donaghy tendered a statement of facts relating how Rhys Furner had been back in Bathurst visiting friends when he met Boardman, a young man he had been on good terms with during school days.
They met outside the Edinboro Hotel on Saturday, September 26 when Mr Furner and his friend left to go to another hotel.
About 12.45am Mr Furner returned to the Einboro Hotel to catch a taxi home. Boardman invited him to be driven home by his girlfriend.
They had driven via the McDonalds Restaurant in a two door Hyundai Excel.
They were on the way to the payment window when Boardman got out of the vehicle turned and punched Mr Furner, who could not leave the vehicle, five times about the head.
Boardman had kicked the side of the car before walking away leaving his victim bleeding from the right eyebrow, nose and mouth. After receiving treatment at Bathurst Base Hospital with sutures in the eyebrow and a broken nose Mr Furner had reported the incident to Bathurst Police.
Police recovered closed circuit security film from McDonalds which showed Boardman striking Mr Furner. Boardman had been invited to take part in an interview but declined.
The only comment Boardman had made to police, was that an offensive remark had been made inside the car and he had handled the situation badly.
