Queensland pub attack leaves man in coma
A man has been left in an induced coma after he was punched in head and left with a fractured skull at Peak Pub.
He was rushed to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane after the incident on Friday night.
Doctors said he was now in a critical condition and in intensive care.
The victim of the assault is 51 year old Wayne Allum.
A father of three, he sells fruit and vegetables on his roadside stall on Ipswich Boonah Rd,
His mother called on the public for more information about the assault that has left her son in such a serious condition.
There are no reports so far of how he is progressing.
She intimated that police are still gathering evidence.
“We don't know what happened and want to find out," she told the Queensland Times.
She said the man Wayne was with on Friday night had left before her son.
"Wayne told him he was going to leave after the football and it must have happened shortly after that," she said.
"I heard the ambulance go past our house at 9.17pm and I was immediately worried.
"Now he is in an induced coma in a serious but stable condition."
"We are going down every day to see him."
A 47-year-old Peak Crossing man has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm.
He is due to appear in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on April 6.
The incident is one in a history of bad assaults and bashings at Queensland pubs that stretch back for years.
In February, Greg David McLellan, 40, pleaded guilty in Townsville District Court to causing grievous bodily harm to Gavin Watson at the Gregory Downs Hotel. The court heard he and Watson had got into a fight and that McLellan had knocked out four of Watson’s teeth.
by Leon Gettler, March 14th 2017
