Cop basher Aroub Arop walks free from court after promising to quit alcohol
A savage thug from Melbourne’s west who bashed numerous emergency services workers during a two-year reign of terror has walked free after convincing a magistrate he’s “pretty fair dinkum” about giving up booze.
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A vicious thug who bashed several emergency services workers including a trainee paramedic has been spared jail because he has an alcohol problem.
Aroub Arop, 21, was sentenced at the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on February 18 to an 18-month community correction order after pleading guilty to 44 charges.
Arop assaulted a protective services officer, uniform police, a detective, a bus driver and three paramedics during multiple incidents between December 2017 and February 2020.
He also lashed a girl with a belt during a sickening Christmas Day attack in 2019.
Arop assaulted a police officer after a brawl that took place outside Collingwood College on December 15, 2017.
The thug was back at it when he stormed a bus, attacked the driver with a two-way radio and then assaulted a detective in Albion on July 17, 2018.
He attacked three paramedics – one a trainee – in Melton on November 25, 2018 after he was found intoxicated on a nature strip.
The paramedics fled for safety after Arop lashed out and trashed the ambulance.
Less than a month later, Arop was charged with “acting in a riotous manner” after he was caught with an extendable baton at La Trobe St in Melbourne’s CBD.
On December 14, 2019, Arop and five others ambushed and bashed a Footscray EzyMart employee because he wouldn’t hand over a cigarette.
Arop then kicked at a female constable’s head after he was arrested at Footscray station.
A “highly intoxicated” Arop was in breach of a booze ban handed out at the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court less than two months earlier.
Arop was finally remanded after he stole booze from Footscray Liquorland on February 5.
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Magistrate Richard Pithouse said Arop’s “alcohol problem” was linked to his violent offending.
He said Arop hadn’t “served enough time” but the magistrate changed his mind after Arop said he would give up alcohol.
“I’m pretty fair dinkum man,” Arop said via videolink from the Metropolitan Remand Centre.
“You know that’s what I want to hear because you want to be released,” Magistrate Pithouse said.
“I hope you’ve come to the end of your adult crime spree … you’ve impressed me as an intelligent person.”
Arop was placed on a community corrections order, given another 12-month booze ban and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service.
He spent 14 days in custody prior to the sentence.