A father observed males in balaclavas sitting in a automotive exterior his home… what occurred subsequent is an all too frequent incidence in Melbourne
Terrifying footage has emerged of the moment a father was chased down and bashed by a group of masked thugs outside his Melbourne home.
Qaisar, whose surname has been withheld, was trying to film a suspicious car parked near his home in the city’s north, when he was attacked on December 29.
‘All I could think was they come back, they’re going to roll down their windows and start shooting,’ he told A Current Affair.
‘And this video is gonna be for my family to know what happened to me.’
Qaisar said he’d just returned from a night out with friends when he noticed the car with four young men inside.
After seeing ‘two guys in balaclavas’, Qaisar attempted to record the vehicle on his phone as it drove off.
However, the car soon returned and the men jumped out, running at Qaisar while yelling at him to delete the video.
Footage shows a member of the group grabbing the security camera at the front of Qaisar’s property in an effort to disable it.
Qaisar said he was ‘frightened to the core’ during the attack which left him needing surgery
The group chased him down and then bashed him outside his home
They then chased Qaisar to his neighbour’s fence where he ditched his house keys to try and ensure the safety of his wife and young child who were sleeping inside.
‘He just punched me in the face and I got knocked out. I woke up and was bleeding from the nose, they were in the car and they just fled the scene,’ Qaisar said.
Horrifyingly, the security camera also captured the moment the group drove away, laughing maniacally about what they’d done.
The young family said they are now living in fear, concerned the group may return.
Qaisar, who required surgery for a broken nose, said it had shattered his perception that his home was a ‘safe haven’
It’s understood no arrests have been made in relation to this incident.
Qaisar’s terrifying attack comes just days after Australian comedy troupe Sooshi Mango slammed Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan over the state’s crime laws, having experienced a second brazen robbery at their Melbourne properties in just three weeks.
The trio told 7News they ‘don’t feel safe’ after a break-in at their Carlton office saw an unidentified man smash a glass door to gain entry – before making off empty-handed.
One of the thugs can be seen grabbing the security camera in an attempt to disable it
Qaisar’s terrifying attack comes just days after Australian comedy troupe Sooshi Mango slammed Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan over the state’s crime laws, having experienced a second brazen robbery at their Melbourne properties in just three weeks (above)
‘I think with what’s going on at the moment, especially with all the home invasions and so forth, everyone’s feeling a little bit unsafe,’ troupe member Joe Salanitri said in an interview with the network on Monday.
He suggested that Premier Allan needed to ‘bring some stronger penalties down’ to ‘scare these people who are scaring the community’.
Joe’s brother and co-star Carlo Salanitri agreed, adding: ‘Maybe if they knew that there was a harsher penalty at stake, that would deter them from doing this kind of stuff.’
Recent data from the Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) showed crime is still rising in Victoria, despite recent efforts from the Allan Government to introduce tougher measures.
The figures, which recorded data for the year to September 30, revealed the highest number of criminal incidents in Victoria since records began.
Theft offences were also on the rise, with 37,000 more incidents noted over the course of the year.
In September, Allan introduced a state-wide ban on machetes following a string of attacks.
The law change makes it illegal to own, use, carry, transport or sell knives without an exemption or valid approval.
Convictions could result in penalties of up to two years in jail or a fine of $47,000.
A three-month amnesty for people to hand in machetes ran until November 30.
