Two security officers were brutally attacked by a man who later admitted he was under the influence of the drug ‘ice’.
The incident happened at Penrith Railway Station in the early hours of Sunday morning.
At about 1.30am on Sunday, April 3, a 42-year-old man approached a security officer who was standing near the taxi rank at Penrith Railway Station and allegedly yelled a defamatory racial slur at the guard.
The man punched him in the face and pulled his shirt.
The offender then approached a security guard who was seated in a nearby vehicle.
When the guard heard a knock on the window he opened the door.
He was punched several times in the face.
Witnesses ran to the man’s aid which caused the offender to flee the scene.
Police were able to located the 42-year-old in a nearby carpark.
When he was taken to Penrith Police Station, he admitted to being under the influence of the drug ‘ice’.
He was charged with ‘assault occasioning actual bodily harm’ and is due in Penrith Local Court on May 16.
He was granted conditional bail.
