<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The first person charged with </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/man-pleads-guilty-over-fatal-onepunch-attack-of-grandfather-in-queensland/3243b0bd-27aa-4056-9490-75747e8c6e30" rel="" target="" title="killing someone under a state's landmark &quot;one-punch&quot; laws"><span>killing someone under a state's landmark "one-punch" laws</span></a><span> has received an additional jail sentence over multiple serious assaults.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ariik Mayot, 28, pleaded guilty today in Queensland District Court to two counts of serious assault of a public officer and assault occasioning bodily harm of a prisoner.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mayot was jailed for a maximum of six years in 2017 for unlawful striking causing the death of 54-year-old grandfather Lindsay Ede at Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/air-india-crash-uk-man-reportedly-survives-plane-crash-in-ahmedabad/37171360-3df7-49c1-8cd1-a0bfc2edcc22" target="_blank"><strong><span>Miracle in India: Sole survivor describes being thrown out of plane mid-air</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He pleaded guilty to the offence and was the first person to be charged under Queensland's "one-punch" laws.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The landmark legislation was introduced in 2014 after a spate of violence and deaths resulting from single punches.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Judge Gregory Lynham today told Mayot he risked wasting the rest of his life if he did not stop committing violent offences.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/one-punch-law-queensland-ariik-mayot-lindsay-ede/c5780c95-2498-45e5-8a8d-ff21fe0e874d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The offending that brings you back to court today suggests you are not a particularly fast learner," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You are still a relatively young man. If you continue to engage in this sort of behaviour ... you are going to look back as an old man and realise you threw your life away because you could not keep your hands in your pockets."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Judge Lynham heard Mayot had punched and put a headlock on a security guard at Mater Hospital in South Brisbane on January 21, 2023 and resisted another officer when he intervened.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The security guard who was punched by Mayot required physiotherapy for a neck strain.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/powerball-lotto-100-million-dollar-jackpot-largest-of-2025/e1dc3389-2988-4b0b-8fdf-0e27e23228b1" target="_blank"><strong><span>Mystery ticket wins entire $100 million Powerball jackpot</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Defence barrister Elise Sargent said Mayot had attended the hospital's emergency room prior to the assaults because he thought he was suffering from drug-induced psychosis from consuming methamphetamine.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Judge Lynham said hospital security guards had a difficult enough job without having to deal with aggressive drug users.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The (assault on the prisoner) I regard as the most serious offence ... you kicked him while he was in a vulnerable position and caused not insignificant injury," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mayot was serving a custodial sentence for an unrelated offence when he attacked a fellow prisoner in the exercise yard on June 23, 2024.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The crown prosecutor said the prisoner would have faced a "confronting experience" when Mayot attacked him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Mayot punched him multiple times to head, face and body. He threw him into a wall," the prosecutor said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He was kneed in the body until he fell. Mayot then kicked him unconscious.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He suffered swelling, muscle spasms, had a top front tooth chipped, a laceration to the inside of his cheek and a lower jaw fracture."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sargent said Mayot arrived in Australia aged six as a refugee from Sudan and was now an Australian citizen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"His history shows he can go periods of time without committing offences of violence," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He is not without hope. He is focused and motivated to deal with his problems."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Judge Lynham sentenced Mayot to 18 months' imprisonment to be released on parole immediately due to already spending seven months in custody.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sargent said Mayot would not be released until next week as he was still due to be sentenced for a separate offence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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