Iszacc Bonnici: ‘SLAKE’ graffiti tagger caused more than $12,500 damage
An unemployed man who caused more than $12,500 damage to trains across the Hunter, Central Coast and Sydney — including a historic carriage at a museum near Kurri Kurri — will be sentenced next week.
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A graffiti vandal who pleaded guilty to tagging trains, trespassing onto railway lines and disguising his face with intent to commit a crime — along with possessing cannabis and cultivating a prohibited plant — will be sentenced next week.
Iszacc Bonnici faced Wyong Local Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to 22 offences, most of which involved spray-painting trains across the Hunter, Central Coast and Sydney.
The 19-year-old was charged after police raided his Blue Haven address on July 28 following an investigation by the Police Transport Command into the vandalism of trains across Sydney, Central Coast and Hunter Region.
During the search, police located sketch pads, spray paint, a mobile phone, three 30cm-tall cannabis plants in a hydroponic set up and 16g of dried cannabis.
The items were seized for forensic examination.
An agreed set of police facts, tendered in court, states he caused an estimated $4,315.25 damage tagging trains at Kingsgrove, in Sydney’s south, $2841.75 damage to trains at Campbelltown and $2631.25 worth of damage tagging trains at the Flemington maintenance facility at Lidcombe.
The facts state on December 8, 2019, he was caught on CCTV entering Kingsgrove Railway Station with three others and sprayed the tag `SLAKE’ on carriages.
The other three unknown persons sprayed the tags `FUSO’, `FLASK’ and `OUSE’.
It came after he was captured on CCTV entering the Broadmeadow maintenance facility at Newcastle on April 11, 2019, and sprayed the same tag `SLAKE’.
“Images of this offence were captured on the accused’s mobile phone and were uploaded to his Instagram account,” the facts read.
He later adopted another tag `FCB’ and police “located a video on the accused’s mobile phone depicting him spraying that tag, filmed at the “exact time and date of the offence” at Gosford Train Station.
On July 25, three days before police raided his house, Bonnici scaled two fences at the Richmond Vale Railway Museum, just south of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley, to spray the tag `SLAKE’ in yellow, brown, black, white and blue on a historical carriage.
The cost to repair the damage was estimated to be $3000.
Bonnici was adjourned to face the same court again next Wednesday where he will be sentenced.
