Brothers charged for bashing boy
TWO TEENAGE brothers have been charged for maliciously attacking a 15-year-old West Ryde boy on Victoria Road in broad daylight.
The brothers, aged 18 and 16, were refused bail last week after attacking the boy last Wednesday. The boy had been waiting at a bus stop on Victoria Road near Marsden Road.
The boy was chased by four young men of Middle Eastern appearance through stationary traffic on Victoria Road before a nearby driver stopped and picked up the boy.
A pursuit followed after the gang got into a red hatchback and tried to run the other car off the road. The boy jumped out of the car at Griffiths Avenue, West Ryde where he was punched and struck with a metal bar.
After stealing his phone, they left the scene in the car they arrived in and witnesses came to the aid of the boy who was then taken to Ryde Hospital. Two days later detectives, armed with a search warrant, seized a red hatchback, mobile phone, baseball bat and a golf club from a house in Carlingford.
They arrested the teenage brothers and both were taken to Ryde Police Station and charged in relation to the incident.
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A RYDE man was also attacked last Wednesday night. After he arrived home and parked his car in Myra Avenue, a car containing five men of Middle Eastern appearance pulled up alongside then approached the 26-year-old.
After a brief conversation the gang got out of their car and smashed the man’s car with baseball bats. As he tried to start his car he was struck on the head with a baseball bat by one of the men, but he managed to get out the car via the passenger-side door.
He hid in a garden until the men had left and went home to call the police and an ambulance. He suffered bruising and swelling to his head.
Police are looking for five men aged 25 to 30 years old and a white Ford sedan they were using. If you have any information phone 9879 9699.
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POLICE RECOVERED a stolen vehicle last Wednesday night after following two vehicles on a pursuit throughout Ryde. Police saw a white Ford Falcon Station Wagon and white Daihatsu tipper truck on Lane Cove Road near Myra Avenue. Both vehicles refused to stop and repeatedly mounted the concrete median strips of Blaxland, Victoria and Lane Cove roads to travel on the wrong side of the road.
The pursuit ended when the truck mounted the kerb near the intersection of Victoria and Lane Cove roads and drove down a grass embankment. A short time later police recovered the vehicle, stolen earlier from Willoughby, parked and unattended in nearby Cowell Street.
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POLICE FINED a 17-year-old female after she used an altered drivers licence to try and gain entry into the Epping Hotel. Police were called and she told them she had paid $120 to have it altered by a friend. She was fined $575 for using the fake identification.
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IN RESPONSE to issues with adults supplying juveniles with alcohol, police conducted an operation around the Cherrybrook Shopping Village last week. Police caught three people supplying alcohol to juveniles, and six juveniles possessing alcohol. Further operations will be conducted in the New Year to address the problem.
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A PIZZA deliverer was approached by two young men while delivering for Domino’s Pizza in Epping on Saturday night. One of the young men stole a number of pizzas from the delivery vehicle and ran off. The deliverer who tried to ring police on his phone managed to detain the other young man. The young man managed to take the mobile phone and ran off, but the pizza deliverer managed to catch the offender and took his own mobile back and the offender’s, too. Police managed to later locate both young offenders who were charged.
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THREE MEN were approached by a group of three while walking through Boronia Park at Epping late on Sunday night. The victims were forced to get down on the ground while money and other possessions were taken from them. Before fleeing the scene, two of the victims were assaulted. If anyone has information or witnessed this offence phone 9858 5944 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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