Jeremy Kristian Hill appeared via video link from prison in Tamworth Local Court earlier this week when he was convicted of the three charges levelled against him after the attack on the night of November 4.

The 24-year-old was handed a nine-month intensive corrections order - which is a custodial sentence to be served in the community - during sentencing.

Court documents show magistrate Julie Soars ordered Hill to be of good behaviour, be supervised by a Tamworth community corrections officer, and accept a referral for medical help.

Hill must also complete 40 hours of community service work and has been banned by the court from entering the Tamworth Shoppingworld complex on Bridge Street for the duration of the nine-month order, which is where the offending took place.

Police facts show officers discovered Hill had already been barred for the rest of the year from entering every Woolworths-owned store across the entire nation, including Big W, in the months before the attack.

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Hill pleaded guilty in Tamworth Local Court last week to charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, using offensive language in a public place and entering enclosed lands without a lawful excuse.

A security guard was left battered, bruised and then spat on when Hill entered the Big W Tamworth store with a friend about 8pm on November 4 and became aggressive when he was asked to show his COVID-19 QR check-in and proof of double vaccination.

Hill continued into the store anyway and refused the employee's multiple requests, according to police.

He told the victim to "f*** off" repeatedly, so loudly that it could be heard throughout the store.

When he was asked to leave Big W, Hill stood "inches" from the worker's face, and began punching him in the face when he was asked to leave a second time.

The victim tried to grab hold of the accused to arrest him but a struggle ensued and both men ended up on the floor of Big W, police said.

Hill got up and then spat on the victim several times, police facts show.

The victim suffered a bleeding nose, bruising and a bloodshot eye as a result of the bashing.

Oxley officers were called to the scene and Hill was arrested and taken back to Tamworth Police Station.

His sentencing was delayed for a few days for an assessment report to be finalised.

Ms Soars told the court at the time that it was a "serious assault on a member of the public" and not something that could be just "waved away".

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