The person accused of assaulting WA Labor identification Tim Picton, leaving him in a coma, has been charged with allegedly knocking one other man unconscious two days prior, and posting footage of the aftermath on-line.
Mr Picton, a former Labor strategist who performed an important function within the celebration’s 2021 landslide victory, stays unconscious in hospital 20 days after he was discovered unresponsive on the bottom in Northbridge within the early hours of December 27.
Brodie Jake Dewar, from Lesmurdie, was charged with grievous bodily hurt over the incident and granted bail after showing in courtroom.
Brodie Jake Dewar, 20, is charged with assaulting Tim Picton in Northbridge. (ABC Information: Callum Liddelow)
Mr Dewar, 20, has now been charged with assaulting a person twice his age in a separate incident in Kalamunda, within the Perth hills, on Christmas Day.
Police mentioned the pair had been seen briefly talking earlier than Mr Dewar allegedly struck the 40-year-old within the head, inflicting him to fall backwards on the pavement, injuring his face.
Mr Dewar appeared in Armadale Magistrates Court docket on Friday, charged with acts or omissions inflicting bodily hurt or hazard.
The courtroom heard Mr Dewar knocked the person unconscious earlier than filming him on his cellphone and sharing it on the social media app Snapchat.
“My youthful sister hey, do not hit on my youthful sister subsequent time brother. Preserve loud night breathing,” Mr Dewar mentioned within the video proven in courtroom.
‘Unprovoked’, ‘coward punch’
The courtroom was additionally proven CCTV of the alleged assault within the procuring centre automobile park close to the Kalamunda Resort.
The outside of the Kalamunda Resort in Perth’s hills. (State Library of Western Australia: Philip Gostelow)
Justice of the Peace Mark Millington advised the courtroom he didn’t know whether or not Mr Dewer would have been granted bail for the alleged assault on Mr Picton if the courtroom had been conscious of this alleged offence two days earlier.
“On that day, the courtroom was conscious of 1 critical offence. Now there’s two,”
he mentioned.
“What I noticed was a coward punch.
“I do know what I heard, do not attempt put spin on that.
“That is an unprovoked assault.”
The police prosecution confirmed one other video in courtroom of a 3rd incident the place Mr Dewar appeared to punch one other man.
Police are investigating the footage, however the prosecutor advised the courtroom the video additional exemplified Mr Dewar’s “sample of behaviour.”
An software for bail was refused, and Mr Dewar will stay in custody till his subsequent courtroom look on February 6.
Tim Picton alleged assault
Tim Picton is a distinguished member of Perth’s political and mining communities and was working as director of technique for mining big MinRes on the time of the alleged assault.
He is additionally the brother of South Australian Well being Minister Chris Picton.
The 36-year-old stays at Royal Perth Hospital in a coma with life-threatening accidents.
Tim Picton pictured with Anthony Albanese. (Provided: WA Labor)
Throughout Mr Dewar’s earlier courtroom look on December 28, police prosecutors mentioned Mr Picton had a fractured cranium, a number of bleeds and required a part of his skull to be eliminated.
The courtroom heard that if Mr Picton survives, he might have a everlasting incapacity.
The alleged assault of Tim Picton occurred close to the nook of James Road and Mountain Terrace in Northbridge. (ABC Information: Glyn Jones )
Throughout that courtroom look, Mr Dewar’s lawyer advised the courtroom Mr Picton was making undesirable advances on his cousin and he struck him instinctively as he thought Mr Picton was about to assault him.
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