Accused Alice Springs axe attacker returns to same school as victim
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A 16-year-old boy allegedly filmed attacking a teenager with an ax on an Alice Springs sports field Monday night has been released after his arrest the next morning to return to the same school as his alleged victim.
Sources told Daily Mail Australia that both the alleged victim and the teenager accused of taking part in the vicious 40cm ax attack attended Centralian Senior College for their back-to-school day on Tuesday.
Northern Territory Police confirmed the arrested teenager had been released the morning after the alleged attack, but could not say whether he would be issued a court summons or placed in a youth diversion programme.
Centralian Senior College, which has an anti-bullying and harassment policy, declined to comment, referring Daily Mail Australia to the Northern Territory Department of Education.
The mother of the boy injured in the incident called the situation ‘a joke’.
The 16-year-old boy filmed attacking a teenager at an Alice Springs sports oval Monday night with an ax was released after his arrest the next morning to attend the same school as the victim.
Three young men walk away from the scene after a man intervened and yelled: ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing? Fuck off. Do you think you are hard to attack him?’
Police treated the victim of the alleged incident, but paramedics said he “refused to have any observations taken, showed no obvious injuries and refused to transport him to hospital.”
The boy’s mother, Namfon Fon, a staff member at the local hospital, said her son had been hit “several times on the face, stomach, leg and other parts of the body” and taken to the emergency department of the hospital. hospital.
The horrific ax attack in broad daylight on Monday afternoon seemed to herald a new wave of violence in the lawless inner city.
Ms Fon, who moved to the city from her native Thailand just a few years ago to be with her partner, posted a warning on Facebook after her son was assaulted near Sammy’s Pizza.
The boy’s mother, Namfon (above), described the fact that her son and the alleged attacker returned to the same school the morning after the incident as “a joke”.
Sources said the teen and his alleged attacker attended Centralian Senior College, which declined to comment, and attended the first back-to-school day of the year the morning after the attack.
The incident followed a series of violent attacks by youth gangs who vandalized businesses and robbed homes.
Ms Fon’s 16-year-old son was walking in Braitling, a suburb of Alice, when the three men attacked him.
Disturbing video of the assault obtained by Daily Mail Australia shows the three young men sleeping with the teenager as he cowered on the grass.
Video of the attack, believed to have taken place at Rhonda Diano Oval, shows two men in black T-shirts and the ax in a red T-shirt snarling as they beat up the schoolboy.
Namfon Fon’s 16-year-old son was attacked by three axe-wielding youths who hit him on the “face, stomach, leg and other parts of the body”.
Then a man out of sight yells at them to stop, saying ‘hey hey hey! What the hell do you think you’re doing?
Fuck off. Do you think you’re tough ganging up on him? Beware. All of you. I know their names.
‘Go out. There were three of you on him. Do you want me to call the police?
Ms Fon said her son “fortunately” did not appear to have been cut by the ax blade and thanked the locals who stopped to help her son.
Ms. Fon said it was “very sad to end up in ED after being attacked by your own community.”
“This town has become a nightmare for everyone,” he said. ‘Stay safe.’
Ms Fon has worked at Alice Springs Hospital since moving from Thailand to the city (above, violence filmed there last weekend) where her teenage son was taken to the ER after he was attacked on a street walk. late.
Northern Territory Police said the suspected teenage offender “is expected to be dealt with under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act.”
Despite violence and crime being a part of life in Alice Springs, the situation has worsened in the ten months since the Northern Territory Government lifted alcohol restrictions.
Action for Alice activist Darren Clarke’s campaign made national headlines, forcing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to pay a quick visit and impose partial alcohol bans.
During a brief visit to the city last week, Albanese announced new restrictions on alcohol and pledged $48.8 million over two years for programs that address crime.
The measures implemented included a ban on the sale of alcohol to go on Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as limits on the opening hours of bottle shops.