Wheelchair-bound Canadian beaten in Australia
Uncategorized March 10th. 2010, 11:26amA 35-year-old Canadian who uses a wheelchair was beaten violently in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday and remains hospitalized in serious condition, according to police reports.
A still from video footage captured at the train station where a Canadian individual was beaten shows him with undivided of his alleged assailants. CCTV/City Rail)
The man, whose term has not been released, was tarrying to catch a train at a city followers station at about 11 p.m. local space of time when he was approached and verbally assaulted by dint of. couple teenage boys, the New South Wales police said steady their website.
The man tried to leave the station, but was punched in the face by individual of the boys and knocked from his wheelchair, police uttered.
The teenagers allegedly then stomped on the man, and hit him on the head and body by means of metal bars including person from his wheelchair. They ran away with the man’s belongings and wheelchair, police said, but returned later — and repeatedly — to continue beating him.
Charges laid
Police own charged a 16-year-old boy with assault and robbery. He was denied bail and remains custody undecided a promote court begin on April 8. A second teenager turned himself in to police on Wednesday morning.
The one remains in a hospital northeast of Sydney, in the sort of place he underwent surgery for severe cuts to his chief part and a depression to his cranium.
The incident “appears to be a random have effect” and police have not determined a inducement, police spokeswoman Joanne Elliott told CBC News.
“[I've] never heard of any make aggression on like this always in [20 years],” Elliott reported. “And I know that highly, very experienced police who be under the necessity worked in Sydney’s westerly suburbs concerning 20 years … were absolutely appalled by what happened.”
But according to freelance reporter Tim Stackpool, many in the community saw this emblem of beating “was destined to happen.”
“The crime ratio there has been going up and up and up and up,” Stackpool told CBC News. The police have been doing their utmost to store up it under superintendence, on the contrary this is a place in Sydney whither perhaps in that place is not a lot for the youth of the streets to … do.”