Sonny Attard: Kogarah carjacking, woman punched and threatened
One woman’s nightmare at the hands of her drug-crazed attacker has been revealed with details of the vicious attack which left her needing emergency surgery and left him in a coma.
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A young woman was repeatedly punched in the face, hit with a multi-tool device and told she would be killed numerous times in a horror carjacking ordeal in Sydney’s south last year.
The full details of Sonny Attard’s attack in July 2019 can finally be revealed after he pleaded guilty in the Central Local Court on Thursday.
Court documents state the 26-year-old’s amphetamine-crazed rampage began when he was admitted to hospital after flagging police down in Kogarah complaining of an adverse reaction to drugs.
It only ended when he allegedly crashed a car at such speed he had to be placed in an induced coma with a raft of serious injuries.
When he arrived at hospital for the first time Attard allegedly ran full speed into glass doors in nothing but a hospital gown before finding his victim, who was just getting out of her car outside her unit block.
“Hurry up, I’ll f***ing kill you. Just drive,” he told the 52-year-old woman, demanding he be taken to Maroubra.
Not satisfied with her driving, Attard, from Pyrmont, punched the woman in the face three times on one occasion before striking her again in the head and neck with a multi-tool device he found in the car, causing her wounds which exposed bone.
“Im gonna f***ing kill you, don’t you dare take me back to the cop shop,” Attard said.
“Don’t try and run and get out of the car. I will kill you.”
Bloodied and bruised, the woman eventually managed to flee the car which Attard then drove into the wall of a residential property.
She required emergency surgery when paramedics eventually got to her.
When Attard woke from the coma, court documents state, he was unaware of why he was in hospital.
Attard will now be sentenced in the District Court after pleading guilty to reckless wounding and take and drive motor vehicle with person with intent to cause actual bodily harm, with other charges dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions today.
He is also facing charges of unlicensed driving, damaging property and reckless driving.
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