Bashers: Angry attackers who hit cops, nurses, ambos and guards
These thugs turned on cops, nurses, ambos and guards, lashing out at staff who were just doing their jobs.
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They treat us, protect us, help us, advise us and sometimes save our lives. So why do some cowardly crooks think it is okay to attack nurses, doctors, paramedics, police and security staff?
‘HORRIFIED BY WHAT HE HAD DONE’
And so he should be.
This ink-faced patient who went to Dandenong Hospital turned on his helpers, punching a nurse in her face.
Alan Locker bashed the staff member after he had an adverse reaction to medication while he was being treated for a liver complaint.
The French Island man ranted about “knives on the ward” and ran down a hallway yelling and screaming before a nurse came along to try and calm him down.
He lashed out, lunging at her and punching her in the face, causing her to suffer a nose bleed, split lip and teeth and gum pain.
When he was interviewed by police he said he couldn’t recall the attack and it must have been a medication side effect that caused him to lose his cool.
His lawyer said the masonry worker was well-known for his good work in the community, was extremely remorseful for his actions and had written a letter of apology to the nurse.
She said he was “extremely embarrassed” and “horrified by what he had done”.
The magistrate said it was a serious assault on someone who was just trying to help.
“They (nurses) put themselves on the line,” he said.
Locker was given a 12-month good behaviour bond with conditions he do an anger management course and pay $500 to the court fund.
‘CAN’T CATCH ME BRUZ’
A teen thug who bashed a guard in a wild brawl thought he could taunt cops on social media with the tagline “can’t catch me, bruz”.
But Cooper Paulic should have taken his eyes off of his phone and instead looked up, as his every move had been captured on CCTV, giving police all the evidence they could ever need.
The then 18-year-old punched and kicked a Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre security guard after his group of mates launched a cowardly attack on the worker.
After the initial assault he bizarrely stood back for a moment and then rushed back in and launched more kicks at the innocent victim.
The hapless guard suffered bruising and soreness to his face and arms in the vicious assault.
Paulic’s defence lawyer said this was his first time in court, he was remorseful for his actions and he planned to move to Ballarat to be with his family and away from negative peer pressure.
The magistrate said he needed to promise to stay out of trouble and wished him good luck in his new town.
Paulic was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay $500 to the court fund.
POLICE PUNCHER
An angry alcoholic who knocked back a goon bag outside a Pakenham house he shouldn’t have been anywhere near then attacked cops when they came to arrest him.
Gavin Connelly, who has a penchant for punching police, is not a fan of news gatherers either, blaming the media for his booze-fuelled law-breaking.
He hit and kicked police officers, dislocating a finger of one female member in one violent attack as well as smashing up a house in another drunken rampage.
He reckoned it wasn’t his lack of self-control which was the problem, it was the adverse publicity from court reporting that caused him to fall off the wagon.
His lawyer said he had been addicted to booze since he was 16 and had been sober for a while, but “went back to his old vice” when a story about him was published.
The magistrate said he had a history “littered on some level with alcohol-related offending” that he didn’t want to accept responsibility for.
He was jailed for six months and given a 12-month community corrections order.
TOBY THE THUG
This angry brute bashed everyone he came across during a violent rampage, whether it be hospital staff, cops, a neighbour or even his own family.
Toby Thirlway punched his mum, pushed and abused his boarding house neighbour, assaulted hospital guards and attacked a police officer.
The Endeavour Hills thug had attended the Monash Medical Centre emergency department with an elevated heart rate.
While waiting to be treated he became aggressive and when hospital guards arrived on scene he picked up a chair and swung it at them, hitting one on their arm and another in their face.
Police then arrived and as he was being held down he scratched the arm of one officer, causing a 20cm cut, before he was sedated by doctors.
Thirlway also punched his mum in the face causing her to fall into a garden bed, and launched a violent and unprovoked racist attack on a neighbour.
His defence lawyer said he had a mild intellectual disability and a suite of mental health and behavioural issues.
He was jailed for a total of 220 days, with 201 days classed as time served.
FIVE HOURS OF VIOLENCE
Emily Huntingford attacked a raft of emergency workers – who were all trying to help her – as she was being transported to and while she was at hospital.
Luckily, none of the frontline victims received any injuries in the series of unprovoked assaults.
She has such a record of violence she has been banned by some hospitals because of her angry outbursts.
Police and paramedics had been called to her Dandenong home but when she was asked to get in the ambulance she spat at a medico and punched an officer.
She was taken to Casey Hospital where she grabbed a nurse, hit a doctor and grabbed their wrists, and kicked another nurse in the chest before she was overpowered and sedated.
Her defence lawyer said the offending needed to be put in the context of her having serious mental health issues and intellectual disabilities.
The magistrate said “to be treated this way makes a difficult job for police and medical workers even more difficult”.
She was sentenced to 14 days in jail and released as she had already served that time on remand.
ONE DAY
A thieving thug had only been out of prison for 24 hours when he launched yet another anti-authority assault on people just doing their jobs.
He punched one guard several times to the face and rammed the trolley into the second before shocked shoppers managed to take him to the ground.
The Noble Park thief had only been out of jail for one day after he had served a term for assaulting PSOs.
He has a long and violent drug-fuelled history, with a rap sheet extending to 27 pages.
His defence lawyer said he knew he had to “make some decisions” about changing his lifestyle.
The magistrate sad his violence was “outrageous behaviour” in front of terrified civilian bystanders.
He was jailed for three months and given an 18-month drug and alcohol community corrections order.
