The 32-year-old father of a newborn remains on life support following a vicious carjacking in Melbourne’s east.
The Box Hill South man was reportedly setting out to collect his wife from work when he was set upon outside his home on Massey Street at around 6pm Saturday.
Speaking anonymously to the media, his wife said she fears having to raise their one-month old baby alone.
“I don’t know what my future will look like because I’m a new mum, but if I lost my husband, I have no idea. It’s really terrible. He’s the whole world to me,” she said according to The Herald Sun.
“He’s fighting hard to get back to us.”
Police say the victim was brutally bashed and left for dead by the side of the road by at least two men, who who fled the scene in his 2013 Honda CRV, registration ZRK-896 and one other vehicle.
They have been unable to offer a description of the assailants.
The father suffered head and facial injuries in the attack and was rushed to hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.
His wife, 31, told the media she believes the attack was random.
“But the guys who did this they were prepared, they chose the right time because there is no one on the street,” she said, according to The Herald Sun. “God will punish them.”
The couple moved to Australia nine years ago, after meeting in China.
“I see Australia as a safe country but this happened, and it’s happened to me, so really a surprise and I still can’t accept that,” she said.
Investigations are ongoing.
If you have any information relating to this incident, please call CrimStoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Now, who in Melbourne would do something like this? I'm nigging that it may be troubled "teens", but no description is forthcoming, as usual.
Invite the Third World, get the Third World.