A man has admitted to fatally bashing a well-known surfer on Sydney’s northern beaches during a dispute in which he accused him of stealing $50.<\/p>\n
Guy Haymes was set upon by Jayson Brett Dal Molin inside a friend’s unit in Manly in late February last year.<\/p>\n
The 59-year-old, who was known as Creature to his friends, had poor heart function and had a pacemaker, a statement of agreed facts before the Local Court revealed.<\/p>\n
Last week, 42-year-old Molin pleaded guilty to manslaughter and several other charges, including one count of murder, were withdrawn.<\/p>\n
The court documents revealed Molin went to the Manly unit to obtain marijuana, which he smoked before he “crashed out” on a bed.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, Molin began accusing Mr Haymes and two other men in the unit of stealing $50 which he had lost.<\/p>\n
“Someone’s got my 50 bucks. No-one’s going anywhere until I get my 50 bucks,” he told the trio.<\/p>\n
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Mr Haymes was a keen surfer who was well-known in the northern beaches community. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n
‘Leave him alone. He’s an old man’<\/p>\n
According to the agreed facts, he then locked the front door and told the others to “work it out between you”.<\/p>\n
He forced Mr Haymes to take off his clothes and prove he did not have cash hidden on him, before he repeatedly hit the surfer on the head.<\/p>\n
“Come on, mate. Leave him alone. He’s an old man,” one of the other men told Molin.<\/p>\n
Molin replied, “I don’t care” until one of the others gave him $50 of his own money to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n
“You can’t keep beating him up. He’s got a heart problem,” that man said.<\/p>\n
Mr Haymes protested that he had not stolen the money and Molin again punched him in the face, before attempting to stomp on him.<\/p>\n
According to the facts, one of the other men went to a neighbour’s unit and was woken up to Molin standing over him and shaking him.<\/p>\n
“I’ve f***ing battered the c***,” he is recorded in the documents as saying.<\/p>\n
“You need to make sure he stays alive. I need you to go back up there and look after him for me.”<\/p>\n
One of the other men later called Triple Zero (000) but would not give details about the assault, telling an operator, “I don’t want to be f***ing killed”.<\/p>\n
Molin was seen dragging Mr Haymes into a bedroom and into a bed.<\/p>\n
When paramedics arrived, he was unable to respond verbally and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
Molin claimed to have arrived in the unit 20 minutes prior and said Mr Haymes had “been like that” when he arrived.<\/p>\n
Mr Haymes remained in hospital but his condition did not improve and he died from a traumatic brain injury on March 15.<\/p>\n
Victim’s phone used for four months after death<\/p>\n
Molin took Mr Haymes’s phone and used it for nearly four months with different SIM cards, the court documents revealed.<\/p>\n
In intercepted phone calls, he made several admissions, including that he “went overboard” because “someone owed me money”.<\/p>\n
In a police interview, he denied involvement in Mr Haymes’s death but conceded he had smoked ice in the unit that day.<\/p>\n
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Mark Haymes made an impassioned plea to the public for further information surrounding his brother’s death. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
According to an analysis of his phone, he conducted internet searches for “man from manly get bashed and die” in May and June 2024.<\/p>\n
Molin’s case will now move to the District Court for sentence, where it will first be mentioned later this month.<\/p>\n
Through his plea, he accepted responsibility for the death by repeatedly striking Mr Haymes with an intention to inflict actual bodily harm, then failing to help or call an ambulance.<\/p>\n
Mr Haymes’s brother, Mark, has previously spoken publicly about his brother as police made an appeal for information.<\/p>\n
He described him as fun-loving, sociable and kind-hearted and said his entire family was “in disbelief” that his life had been cut short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has admitted to fatally bashing a well-known surfer on Sydney’s northern beaches during a dispute in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[107976,180295,43,180297,44450,24275,44,25261,4277,180296,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-319833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-guilty-plea","tag-guy-haymes","tag-headlines","tag-jayson-brett-dal-molin","tag-manly","tag-manslaughter","tag-news","tag-northern-beaches","tag-nsw-police","tag-surfer","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}