CHAOS erupted at Whoonga Park last night with residents, fed up with criminal addicts lashing out.
The organised attack started at Whoonga Park but quickly reached parts of lower Glenwood including the busy Davenport area.
Residents of Glenwood were shocked by the attack which is believed to have been instigated by Dalton hostel dwellers, fed up with the thefts by addicts.
Heather Rorick, a counsellor and chair of the Bulwer Community Safety Forum witnessed the erupting violence and was nearly hit with a knobkerrie herself.
“Not all the people attacked last night are whoonga addicts!” she said.
According to Rorick, Safer Cities who have just started to work with some of the vagrants in the parks of Glenwood determined that many were South Africa’s, some are car guards.
“There are men, woman and elderly in this group – they were outnumbered by the attackers whom I hear were from Dalton – innocent people walking in the streets had to all run for cover as these guys on the attack were hitting who ever was in front of them – as these vagrant guys fell, they were attacked ten to one. Hit with knobkerries, bricks, sticks with nails in them.”
One man even tried to attack the BCSF.
“He missed the two of us by a whisker, the knobkerries hit the iron railing,” said the visibly upset Rorick.
