FOUR men pleaded guilty today to bashing a man with concrete blocks in the aftermath of Sydney's Cronulla riot late last year.Police said the men drove to Cronulla seeking revenge after people of Middle Eastern appearance were targeted in race-fuelled violence last December 11. They attacked Jake Schofield as he walked along a Cronulla street just after midnight on December 12.
An earlier hearing was told the men stomped on his head and beat him with blocks of concrete. Mr Schofield, 20, suffered injuries including a fractured eye socket, broken nose, two stab wounds and a dislocated jaw.
The four men, then aged between 19 and 21, were charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to do so and malicious wounding in company. In Downing Centre District Court, each pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of assault in company occasioning actual bodily harm. Judge Peter Berman suppressed their names at the request of the defence.
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