Man Found Guilty Over Glassing Attack On Hilltop Hoods Member

Adelaide man Christopher Peregi has been found guilty of a glassing attack on Hilltop Hoods' MC Pressure (real name Daniel Smith) in court yesterday. 

The trial, which commenced last week, saw Peregi claim that he had become "lightheaded and tripped on a chair, causing him to accidentally smash the bottle over Mr Smith's head" during a wake in 2018. 

Smith told the court that he was in conversation with another attendee when the incident occurred. 

"I heard a loud popping sound on my head, felt a hot rush, and my vision went blank and I passed out," he said. "My next memory is being in the melee and being pushed to the front of the property and being asked to leave.

"I recall throwing several punches. I don't recall whether they landed. I was scared, angry, concussed, confused and in a heightened state."

Following the scuffle, Smith was taken to Flinders Medical Centre. He told the court that glass was removed from his scalp and that he suffered both a concussion and temporary deafness as a result of the incident. 

Peregi - who is now married to Smith's ex-wife and is step-father to their son - told a doctor at the time that he had blacked out ahead of the incident and regained consciousness during the scuffle. 

According to ABC, Smith said that he thought it was "a pretty outrageous suggestion, that some could accidentally fall against someone, smash a glass over the back of their head until they were unconscious.

"In every possible way I'm rejecting [that suggestion]."

Peregi is due to be sentenced at a later date.