The Daily Mail has published a horrifying video of a man named Shane William Ryan slamming 20kg weight onto the head of a fellow gymgoer by accident causing horrific injuries to his skull.
Shane has been jailed 19 months after he pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court on the day his trial was due to begin. DM has details:
The court heard the two men were working out at the Next Level Gym in the Palmerston suburb of Rosebery, south-east of Darwin, early one morning in October 2020. CCTV played in court shows Ryan picking up a 20kg plate and walking towards the victim lying on a bench on his back lifting dumbbells. He lunged towards the victim and dropped the weight on fellow gymgoer’s head, causing the victim to fall to the ground.
Ryan appears to have injured his ankle and walks away as the victim sits on the floor in agony clutching his face and head, which were bleeding. He eventually returned to the man to help him and call an ambulance, the court heard.
The injured man suffered a fractured skull, a cut to his eyebrow, swelling to his face and ‘significant and ongoing’ psychological impacts, the NT News reported. Justice John Burns described Ryan’s actions as ‘very dangerous’ as he was jailed for 19 months.
On Shane’s relationship with the injured man, here is how it was according to court proceedings.
The court heard relations between the pair had been ‘amicable’ and ‘friendly’ and that there was no motive for the unprovoked attack as the judge noted no evidence of ‘significant premeditation or planning’.
Ryan insisted he ‘accidentally’ injured the fellow gymgoer but accepted his actions were deliberate, the court heard.
‘The victim was vulnerable as he was lying on his back and had weights in his hands, he was unable to protect himself — he also had no reason to believe that you would attack him as you did,’ the judge told Ryan in court.
The only thing I can come up with is he thought the guy was sleeping with his girlfriend or something.
Flip to the next page to watch the horrific footage.
