A MAN who came to the aid of his friend after he had been bashed by a teenager at Raymond Terrace in an unprovoked assault had his thumb partially severed in a machete attack when the teen and a man returned to "get revenge", according to court documents.
The bloody brawl in Cook Street on the morning of April 30 this year started when a 17-year-old boy stopped outside a home, sat in the gutter and began drinking an alcoholic drink.
It was 7.40am on a Tuesday and the man who lived there was putting out his bins for collection when he spotted the teen and attempted to move him on.
"What's your problem with me being in the street, lad?" the boy allegedly asked the man. "If you have a problem with me, come on the street lad."
The man replied "no problem", but the teenager allegedly kicked over his bins and began punching the man in the back of the head when he bent down to pick up the rubbish.
The pair wrestled and the man managed to pin the teenager to the ground to stop the attack.
He let him up and the teenager ran away, allegedly threatening to return with another man.
The teenager had dropped his jacket and phone in the melee and convinced someone at a nearby home to drive him back to Cook Street to collect them.
But on the way he jumped from the car and was later allegedly seen walking down Banks Street with 42-year-old Adam Kane Garvey, who witnesses said was carrying a 30-centimetre machete.
Meanwhile, the man at the home had become worried about the attack and threats to return and called a friend to come over to back him up.
He arrived a short time later, not long before Garvey and the teenager allegedly arrived back at the home and Garvey said "which one of you stomped on [the teenager's] head?"
The teenager allegedly attacked the two men, assaulting them both before Garvey allegedly began chasing one of the men around the front yard with the machete.
When Garvey caught up to him he allegedly swung the machete at the man, slicing his hand and causing a deep laceration before hitting the man in the face with the weapon.
The man's friend attempted to intervene but Garvey allegedly slashed him on the hand with the machete, partially severing his thumb and cutting his wrist.
The teenager allegedly kept punching and kicking the two men and eventually one of them managed to grab the machete and throw it towards the house.
The teenager then allegedly smashed the front windscreen of a car and assaulted the man one last time before another car pulled up and a woman called out "get in the car you idiot, you just got out of jail".
Police were called and given mobile phone footage showing the teenager assaulting the two men and he was arrested at the scene.
Garvey was not arrested until June 13 when the Port Stephens Hunter proactive crime team pulled him over.
He was later charged with two counts of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, two counts of intimidation and armed with intent to commit an indictable offence.
He was refused bail and did not appear on the AVL screen on Wednesday when his matter was mentioned briefly in Newcastle Local Court.
He has not entered any pleas and the matter will return to court in September.
