Jail time for king hitting man with machete

The 21-year-old’s solicitor Rayna Pettit tried to argue for a lesser sentence in Orange Local Court on Thursday because he had finally found somewhere stable to live and “obviously” needed some support.

“He’s more than willing to do an anger management program managing emotions again to try and overcome that anger in him,” she said. 

Ms Pettit said while the victim did bring out a machete, Mumbulla acknowledged he could have dealt with the situation differently. Police facts said on Saturday May 24, a group of people were fighting in the street and Mumbulla watched on. 

The victim walked from his home, where he watched the brawl, to the fence with a machete while yelling at the fighters to “go home”.

Mumbulla ran towards the victim and told him he would hit him.

“I’m going to king hit you,” he said.

The man demanded he leave his front yard but Mumbulla did not.

“Violence is not the answer,” the victim told him twice. 

But Mumbulla punched him on the left side of his face.

The victim had to be taken to hospital and received four stitches. 

Mumbulla told police the victim pointed the machete towards him and it had made him mad.

Ms Pettit asked the magistrate to consider giving Mumbulla a good behaviour bond with “quite a bit of supervision”. 

But magistrate Terry Lucas said there was no alternative to a full-time jail sentence. 

“Your record is pretty bad,” he said. 

The Leumeah Road resident was sentenced to 12 months in custody with a non-parole period of six months.