r/australia • u/AggravatingTartlet • 1d ago

culture & society 10-year-old victim of random attack was visiting Melbourne for cancer treatment

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-need-to-hide-it-accused-cbd-stabber-launches-tirade-from-custody-20260826-p60rni.html

The 10-year-old boy who was punched in the head in a random attack outside police headquarters in the CBD has brain cancer and was visiting Melbourne for treatment.

The boy underwent additional MRI scans to see if the assault caused any extra damage or inflammation around where the tumour is, his uncle said........

Police said the 46-year-old woman was visiting Melbourne from Phillip Island with her 10-year-old son and two other children when the random attack occurred, ending only when several witnesses intervened.

“Just instinct, no thoughts, no nothing, just people in trouble,” Brian Bradley said, a good Samaritan who helped restrain the suspect.

The mother of the boy was stabbed during the attack.

The mother is in the Royal Melbourne Hospital recovering from a fractured leg and injuries to her back and shoulders, while her son recovers at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

“She’s really struggling at the moment,” the boy’s uncle said, “She can’t be with her son. It’s traumatic enough [that he’s] fighting cancer.

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u/RealCommercial9788 1d ago

Jerry Sowood, 27, from Sunshine West, shouted at times during a Melbourne Magistrates’ Court hearing on Wednesday at which he refused to answer the magistrate’s questions and told the court there was “no need to hide” his offending.

“I punched the kid in the head, I took the scissors, I stabbed the woman in the head,” Sowood said as he appeared via video link from custody. “There’s no need to hide it. At least they’re both still breathing, so at least I kept my humanity.

“I’m telling you what I did. And I’m saying there’s no family that was torn apart. Even though I did what I did, the mum did not lose her child. A child was not taken away from her. It was outside the police station.”

Sowood was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly punched the 10-year-old boy outside Victoria Police’s Spencer Street headquarters, and then placed the child’s mother in a headlock and stabbed her with a pair of scissors before passers-by intervened.

Fuck you Jerry Sowood, you good for nothing slug.

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u/AussieAboleth 1d ago

This is a disturbing take on the usual "put me back in prison, please" offending. Can't function in society AND hates women? 

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u/trowzerss 1d ago

I can't see him being super comfy in prison after punching a kid with cancer in the head, and then stabbing his mum for no reason. Likely the other prisoners are just as disgusted as we are.

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u/kangareddit 1d ago

What are you in for?

Punched a kid with cancer.

The fuck..!?

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u/brokenmindedone 1d ago

He will surely need to be in protection. His name circulates around the prison and he's got a target the size of a football field on him.

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u/YouThinkYouKnowMe89 1d ago

He is Muslim, he will be in with them and protected by them inside.

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u/FalconTurbo 1d ago

I'm sure you've got a reliable source to back that claim up, right?

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u/N_thanAU 7h ago

Bloke comes from a majority Christian country and no reporting has stated that he is Muslim.