A former president of outlaw motorcycle gang God’s Garbage faced Mandurah Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged over a road rage attack which left his victim with head injuries.
Ronald Mark Scott was arrested following the 2016 incident on Pinjarra Road and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, to which he pleaded guilty.
The court heard Scott and his victim were in separate vehicles, driving east on October 18, when an on-road incident prompted both drivers to stop on the main road near Roe Avenue.
The prosecutor said a man approached Scott’s vehicle before the former bikie used a hammer to hit his victim in the head, abdomen and shoulder.
The attack left the man bleeding from his head.
At the time of the incident, Scott’s 11-year-old daughter was a passenger in the car with him and witnessed the assault.
Counsel for Scott said her client disputed some of the facts, and said the victim had struck him first.
She said Scott had used pliers, rather than a hammer, to attack the other man, but appreciated he had reacted disproportionately to the situation.
Scott was described by his lawyer as a “caring neighbour”, and an “active community member” who had cleaned up his act after leaving God’s Garbage a decade ago to focus on raising his child as a single father.
She said her client was ashamed of his behaviour, and had offered to meet with his victim to apologise, but this offer had been refused.
Magistrate Anne Longden referred to the offence as “extremely serious”, but accepted Scott had turned his life around since leaving his former gang.
Scott was placed on a 12-month intensive supervision order with program requirements.
The local father, who is no longer a member of any motorcycle gang, played a pivotal role in the 1989 shooting of Mongrel Mob vice-president Selwyn Wharepapa.
Scott drove the car Gypsy Joker David Roy Kirby was in when he shot Wharepapa outside his Perth home.