Premium Content Subscriber only A BALLNA man who left his victim with cracked ribs after a random assault and fled police at speed in a stolen car while drunk, has avoided more time behind bars. Jake Parke, 23, was sentenced for a host of crimes before the court in Byron Bay on Monday. In the first incident, Parke was with another unknown man outside Ballina Court House shortly before 5am on January 15 this year. According to court documents the victim, Anthony Reid, was released from the adjacent Ballina police station following an unrelated matter and Parke and his companion asked him for a cigarette as he passed them.