Tongan Fruit picker

WARNING: This story contains details some readers will find distressing.

Max Loketi, 28, was working on a farming property at Hamel, south of Perth, in March when he picked up the small black cat and repeatedly hit it with a two-metre pole.

The footage of the attack, which was played in the Perth Magistrates Court, showed Loketi first holding the animal by the tail and then hitting it again when it was on the floor, barely moving.

Another person can be heard laughing in the background.

Twenty-six-year-old Maka Leohiva Taliauli pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday.

The Daily Mail reported that Maka was fined for fighting outside Childers’ Federal Hotel after drinking with friends on 11 July.

He punched the backpacker in a ‘consensual’ fight after being separated. The victim sustained a cut on his cheek and bruise below the eye from the blow to the right side of his face.

Maka knew the victim and they were living in the same accommodation, which was no longer the case.