A mother has been left with serious head injuries and a broken arm after she was allegedly attacked by a stranger with a hammer outside a service station in Perth’s south.
Fiona, who did not want to share her last name, was buying a bottle of water from a Rockingham station along Dixon Road in the early hours of Saturday morning when she was approached.
“I turned around to him and he just looked, he just said to me: ‘do you want to get hammered?’,” she told Nine News Perth.
“I was on the ground. I just kept on pleading with him telling him I had kids and that ... I couldn’t die.
“Then he got me again and he got me again, and then he just kept on going.”
An attendant at the service station had locked the doors and was calling police while the altercation occurred.
“I’m just screaming at her, ‘let me in, let me in please, like he’s not even here just let me in,’ and nothing,” Kylie said.
She also got no help from motorists driving past when she tried to flag someone down, and so instead hid in some bushes until police arrived. She said she also allegedly saw the man holding a knife and a wooden stake.
James Plester, 29, was arrested and has since been charged with unlawful wounding. He is now behind bars waiting for a court date while Fiona recovers at Royal Perth Hospital.
Fiona said she was too afraid to be left alone.
“I just want people to be a bit more vigilant and not go out on their own. Always have someone with you,” she said.
Nine News Perth
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