HILLCREST resident Bryan Leppan will have to go in for surgery after he was allegedly brutally assaulted by a DJ at a local pub just after midnight on Sunday.
Leppan said he and his friend, Charles van Heerden, arrived at the popular Hillcrest pub just after 11.30pm on Saturday.
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He was talking to his friends at the bar when he was punched on the right-hand side of his face. As he fell, he said a man’s knee connected with the right side of his face, dealing a second blow.
“Bystanders had to restrain the guy. This was such a shock. There was no provocation at all and I had no idea who he was or why he even hit me.”
“I thought it was mistaken identity and thought he must have had an issue with someone else, as I had just arrived at the venue,” said the 33-year-old Leppan.
“There was no help from management, no bouncers, no offer to phone paramedics, not one of the staff called the police or the security company. Everyone just stood back,” he said.
The DJ, who was alleged to have attacked the patron, went back to his booth and packed up his equipment.
Van Heerden went to get toilet paper from the bathroom to help clean up the blood. He argued with the staff to contact the police and call the paramedics.
“They did not take out a first aid kit to try and help. There was no interaction with the management and they were getting annoyed with me as I was trying to find out what was happening.”
“They called an ambulance but no one arrived so I called Meditech,” said van Heerden.
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According to Leppan, Blue Security and the SAPS were only contacted after the DJ left the pub.
Leppan was treated at the bar area by a paramedic and was given morphine in the ambulance en route to Hillcrest Private Hospital.
Doctors suspected he had a broken jaw, nose and cheekbone. They were also concerned with the significant damage to his eye and was given an antibiotic to treat it as well as to prevent infection.
On Tuesday morning doctors confirmed he had a broken cheekbone and a cracked eye socket and would need surgery.
- The DJ, whose name is known to the Highway Mail, has instructed his attorney, Charl Claassen of Francois Medalie and Company, to assist him in this matter and elected to remain silent at this stage of the investigation.
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