A young Perth father has been left with a “shattered face” and broken jaw after a brutal attack by a group of thugs in Northbridge.
Zachary Hepping’s mother is outraged her son was left bleeding on the street for more than 40 minutes while those responsible “walked free”.
“My lip’s swollen, my eye’s obviously shut. I can’t see out of this eye,” the 24-year-old told 9News.
“This eye’s obviously sore but somewhere up here I’ve got to go get surgery.”
Discharged from hospital just moments earlier, Zachary headed straight to the Northbridge police station for answers.
The father-of-five said he was going to a Murray Street nightclub with friends early this morning when he was brutally assaulted by eight strangers in a nearby laneway.
“I was walking past and I bumped shoulders with someone and he asked, ‘What’s going on?’ and from there, yeah, they just started,” he said.
Police said officers on patrol saw a group of men fighting on the street and managed to move them on.
Paramedics were called soon after but Zachary had left before they arrived.
“They waited for 40 minutes and just stood there basically for ages,” he said.
“They gave me a water and that’s pretty much it.”
The man’s mother, Melissa, described what happened as “just horrible”.
“People can’t go out and enjoy themselves,” she said.
“It comes to this – a shattered face, broken jaw, broken nose, broken eye socket.
“Is this what we’ve come to?”
The young father was tonight back in the emergency department with a long road ahead.
