Man pinned down by neighbours after ice-fuelled rampage

A man has been pinned down by neighbours and eventually tasered by police after busting into a home on Brisbane’s bayside. He had just rammed two cars on the street outside in what’s believed to have been an ice-fuelled rampage.

Up to six men were forced to make a citizens arrest after a man, allegedly high on ice, repeatedly rammed two cars on a leafy Wynnum street before charging his way through a locked front door on Saturday night.

Rachel Pearse and her 16-year-old daughter Chloe were hosting a dinner party when a man driving a dark sedan sped around the corner in the direction of their Boswell Tce home about 7.30pm.

According to the pair, the man allegedly drove forwards then reversed his car repeatedly into two parked cars outside their home, before they say he launched through the locked front door and charged into a downstairs bathroom in the horror home invasion.

Neighbours, including brave 19-year-old Louis Von Richter who was bitten on the wrist by the man, came running from all directions to hold him on the bathroom floor until police arrived and subsequently tasered the man.

“I just did what most people would do in that situation – when you see someone in trouble, you go and help them,” Mr Von Richter said.

“I was trying to hold him down and he reached his head down and bit my arm and pulled it towards his face.”

Moments earlier, Chloe said the man had “got out of the car and was walking around saying

‘oh hey everyone, I’m late to the party’.

“He was obviously not sober or in a proper state of mind. He was pacing and stressing and said ‘I want a razor blade, I want a razor blade’,” she said.

“Then he jumped over the fence and used the momentum of that to force his way through the door.”

Moments earlier, Chloe had been downstairs securing the front door after she saw the man exit his vehicle, while Rachel and her dinner guests watched on in shock from the balcony above.

“Our two friends were telling him, ‘do not enter this property, do not enter this property,’ then that’s exactly what happened,” Rachel said.

The man has not yet been charged and remains in the Princess Alexandra Hospital, while Mr Von Richter awaits the results of a blood test following the bite.