Sidney Brady was an independent 89-year-old man until he was savagely beaten in a senseless attack during a home invasion, by Allan Ronald Poland. Since the horrifying ordeal in October 2011, the elderly man spent two months in hospital, swapped his walking stick for a frame and now lives under the full-time care of his daughter and son-in-law. 89-year-old Sidney Brady after vicious bashing by Aboriginal, Allan Ronald Poland His attacker, Poland, 32 at the time, was sentenced in the West Australian District Court to 16 years and four months in prison after being convicted earlier in 2013 by a jury. There is also a lifetime restraining order placed against him so he cannot contact his victim, who was aged 91 at the time of the trial. Members of Mr Brady’s family wept in court as details of the crime were explained. The court heard Mr Brady was dog-sitting…
Aboriginal crime
On 27 August 2013, a 15-year–old Aboriginal boy was sent behind bars for seven years over a horrific attempted rape and beating he unleashed on an 88-year-old great-grandmother in her own home. In sentencing the Aboriginal youth, Perth Children’s Court President Denis Reynolds described the attack as “disgusting”, “cowardly” and the “worst” of its kind”. The Aboriginal boy had broken into the 88-year-old woman’s Great Southern home of more than 66 years while a co-offender syphoned fuel from machinery in a nearby shed. The court heard his crime had seen the elderly woman punched to the ground, repeatedly kicked and with items including a coffee table thrown at her head. The great-grandmother suffered bruises all over her body after the boy repeatedly punched and kicked her, and threw objects at her, including a ceramic pot at her head. In a victim impact statement, the woman said her head was “exploding”…