Pair Arrested Over Brutal Kicking Attack

Police have arrested two men over a horrific attack, captured on CCTVlast week, in which another man was kicked unconscious at a Melbournetrain station.

The pair, both aged 21, were arrested at about8am today after police executed a search warrant at a home in Braybookin western Melbourne.

The ugly video, circulated in the mediathis week, shows a defenceless 23-year-old man being kicked in the headat the Sunshine Railway Station underpass.

He was left with serious head injuries.Transit police detective Mark Sontag said after the attack he believedthe families of the attackers wouldn’t hesitate to turn them in oncethey saw the footage.

“This is a pretty appalling attack on avulnerable young man who was by himself at the Sunshine railwaystation,” Sen-Constable Sontag told the Herald Sun.

“Even the perpetrators families’ would be disgusted by this,” he said.

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2009-02-28