An aboriginal teenager has been charged after an elderly woman was allegedly bashed with a wooden stake by three violent thugs who broke into her Adelaide home.
The woman, 68, was allegedly attacked with a picket or fence paling in Mitchell Park at about 3am on Saturday morning after yelling from her window to tell a group who were fighting in the street outside to be quiet.
Shocking CCTV footage shows a woman screaming “help, help” as the three alleged attackers break in by smashing the window, before the woman was allegedly attacked with the timber post, Nine News reported.
A neighbour told the Advertiser the “heartless” alleged attack went on for 60 seconds, and left the alleged victim in the state of shock.
“She wasn’t crying or anything; it’s like she was trying to figure out what happened to her,” he said.
“It’s sad. She’s this little, old, frail woman.”
South Australia Police are now looking into whether the same group were involved in an alleged assault at a service station in Marion an hour earlier.
Four people were alleged assaulted by two suspects, leaving an 18-year-old man and a 24-year-old man needing hospital treatment for minor injuries.
Police later arrested a male, 17, and charged him with aggravated serious criminal trespass and aggravated assault causing harm over the Mitchell Park incident, and aggravated assault over the alleged attack at Marion.
Two suspects are still on the run, and are described as “young men of Aboriginal appearance, wearing hoodies and dark clothing”.
Header image: A male, 17 is arrested over the alleged incident, left, and one of the suspect caught on CCTV, right (Nine News)
