Aussies outraged by coward’s disgusting act toward vulnerable woman in Adelaide – as police hunt the culprit
Disturbing footage shows the moment a man appears to hurl a glass bottle at a sleeping homeless woman in South Australia.
In the video, the man could be seen pulling up to Wakefield Medical Clinic, Adelaide, about 11pm on Wednesday.
He jumped from the car to throw the glass bottle towards a doorway at the clinic.
A woman was sleeping rough under a blanket in the same entranceway.
Glass can be heard shattering and tinkling on the ground around the woman, mere centimetres above her head.
Both the assailant and the man filming from inside the car could be heard laughing.
The panicked woman rose from the blankets, screaming in fright, and the attacker and bystander made off in their car.
The medical clinic called the police about the incident the following morning, but the rough sleeper had already moved on.
Footage shows the moment a man hurled a bottle at a homeless woman in Adelaide on Wednesday
It’s unclear if she sustained any injuries in the cruel and random attack.
South Australian police are now hunting for the men responsible.
One nearby worker told Seven News the homeless woman had recently been released from hospital after injuring her arm, and said she just needed a place to sleep.
A local homeless man said he lives in fear of similar assaults.
‘I sleep somewhere in the libraries during the day; you never know what is going to happen to you,’ he said.
A worker at the local homeless service Hutt St Centre, Chris Burns, said the assault was vile, and he could see no justification for the attack.
‘It’s disgusting that one human being would do that to another human being who is particularly vulnerable,’ he said.
‘She could’ve been very seriously injured if not killed.’
Many Aussies who saw the video online were disgusted by the shameless act.
‘What an atrocious, cowardly slug,’ one man said of the offender.
‘What a piece of s***, picking on someone living (rough),’ another wrote.
Police have urged anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
