An enraged teenager who brutally beat his grandmother with a metal pole after she took his game controller from him has escaped conviction for the “ferocious attack”.
The woman was hit several times during the sickening attack carried out by the then 14-year-old boy at the Melbourne home they shared at the time in August 2022.
The teenager also used the stick to press on his grandmother’s throat during the attack.
The Supreme Court of Victoria heard the boy first attacked his older sister on the morning of the assault, after she tried to help his grandmother.
The pole hit her in the knee and wrist, but she managed to escape and hid in a bedroom closet, where she called the police.
The court heard the grandmother was hit at least in the head, causing a cut before she fell to the ground.
The furious teenager then delivered a series of ferocious blows to his back and chest as he lay helplessly on the ground, begging him to stop, the Herald of the sun reported.
“You were yelling at him to ‘stay down and die.'” “She was shouting at you to please stop, but you continued to assault her,” Judge Amanda Fox said.
The woman was hit several times with the stick during the sickening assault carried out by the then 14-year-old boy at the house in Melbourne’s east in August 2022 (file image pictured).
‘(She) was panicking; He could feel his right wrist and ribs were broken and he feared the stick would pierce his chest.
The court heard the assault occurred after the grandmother asked the teenager to hand over the keys to another house in Melbourne she owned at the time.
She was forced to sell the property in which the boy, his mother and his sisters previously lived due to successive increases in interest rates and invited them to live with her.
The court was told the grandmother confiscated the games console after the boy, who has high-functioning autism spectrum disorder, refused to hand over the keys.
The court heard the teenager did not stop hitting his grandmother despite her urging him to do so (file image pictured).
“At the time of the crime, you felt a deep sense of injustice and believed your grandmother was wrong, which led to feelings of anger and retaliation,” Judge Fox told the teen.
It is understood that the teenager’s disability was not diagnosed at the time.
The court also heard that the teenager was also struggling with the recent move to his grandmother’s house at the time.
The boy, who had previously been charged with attempted murder, at the time gave a detailed account to police at the scene about what happened during the attack.
The court heard he had expressed a lack of remorse for the attack and that he “hoped she would die”.
The boy’s charges were reduced to causing serious injury with intent in circumstances of serious domestic violence and common assault.
Judge Fox said the charges were reduced because of his age and disability, despite limited and ongoing remorse for his actions.
He was given a 15-month youth supervision order, requiring him to receive mental health and disability support.