Watch the exact moment a man hits another man in the face with a 44-pound dumbbell in the gym.
NEWS: Man jailed for 19 months after hitting another in the face with a 44-pound dumbbell in the gym.
Shane William Ryan claimed that his unprovoked act of violence inside a Darwin academy was an accident.
CCTV footage told a very different story.
On October 22, 2020, Ryan and another gym user were alone inside the Next Level Gym in Rosebery, a suburb on the outskirts of Darwin.
The other gym user was performing a bench press – lifting two dumbbells while lying on his back on a bench.
In footage shared by the NT Supreme Court, Ryan can be seen picking up a 20kg weight, walking towards another gym user and throwing the weight directly in his face.
The victim immediately began bleeding from his head, where he would later be diagnosed with a fractured skull.
Ryan, feigning an ankle injury, walked away from the victim before returning with a phone to call an ambulance.
For months, the 33-year-old claimed it was an accident. But in the Supreme Court last month he changed his story.
CCTV footage has been released recently.
Ryan was jailed for 19 months for what Judge John Burns said was “an extremely dangerous act” for a person “unable to protect himself”.
