Police allege Jarred Short and another man beat the victim so badly on the night of September 24 that she was a “bloody and unrecognisable mess” by the time officers arrived on the scene.

Documents tendered to Wollongong Local Court on Friday allege one of the men hit the woman in the back of the head with an unknown object before the pair repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped on her face, body and limbs after she was involved in a brief confrontation with another female inside a Northcliffe Drive home.

Police allege Short and his co-accused finished their attack on the woman by throwing her down a flight of stairs.

“She was coughing up blood [and] her face was swollen and bruised beyond recognition,” officers wrote in a statement of facts.

“The bashing that the accused persons inflicted on the victim can be described as nothing short of barbaric.”

Police sought an arrest warrant for Short after they were unable to locate him in the days after the attack.

It is understood officers were at the Illawong Gardens complex on Thursday afternoon to execute the warrant when Short barricaded himself in one of the units and refused to come out.

It is alleged he made a number of threats during the course of the four-hour siege, which ended with his arrest about 5.30pm.

Short was charged with threatening to injure a person with intent to prevent lawful arrest and detained in custody overnight.

He did not apply for bail during a brief appearance in court via video link on Friday, where he blew kisses to a trio of women who turned up to support him.

Magistrate Michael Stoddart formally refused him bail.

Appearing on Short’s behalf, Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer Jack Hibbard said his client also had two other outstanding charges on his record stemming from earlier this year when he’d failed to turn up to court and been convicted in his absence.

In the first offence, which took place in March, Short was seen riding in the passenger’s seat of a stolen Ford Laser being driven by a 14-year-old boy.

The vehicle was involved in a short pursuit with police before it was abandoned in the Bundaleer Housing Estate.

A police dog tracked Short, the driver and a second passenger to nearby houses where the trio was apprehended.

Short came under police notice four months later when he was caught driving without a licence at Mt Warrigal.

Police said they saw Short acting suspiciously behind the wheel while they were patrolling Landy Drive on the afternoon of July 26.

He was stopped in nearby Andrew Crescent after checks on the police computer system revealed he had never held a licence and was banned from applying for one until 2019.

Prosecutors will allege Short has been actively avoiding police since August.

In court on Friday, Mr Hibbard said Short would likely apply for bail when his case returned to court on November 1.