1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Five Double A Knights with Matthew Pantellas. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: Got an email half an hour ago, and it's regarding 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: the story we were talking about a bit earlier tonight 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 2: and a few of you have mentioned in texts, most 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: recently the text that I read out from Michael about 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 2: the four youths getting bail after that violent, aggravated assault 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 2: at the bottle shop on Northeast Road last night. The 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: email is from the mother Mel of the young man, 9 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: the worker who was bashed by these allegedly by these 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: five young men, and the photos are terrible. She's attached 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: to a photo of his blood stained arm and various 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: facial shots, cut lip by, the looks black eye, unbelievable. 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: He's holding the thumbs up in one in hospital so 14 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: where he's obviously spent the night because he's got the 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: wrist bracelet on. Unbelievable and I understand not the first 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: time either, Meil, how are you? Thank you for being 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,639 Speaker 2: available to have a chat. 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: No worries, thanks, Matthew. 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: Unbelievable that this has happened, and I can't believe these 20 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: kids have got bail. But I was saying earlier the 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: presumption is towards giving bail in court, which needs to change, 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: but not absolutely not the first time I understand either. 23 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: No, And he was attacked back in June. Guy held 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: a bottle up over his head, you know, and luckily 25 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: they ran off. But these same kids that did this, 26 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: they robbed the bottle shop Friday, they robbed it Saturday, 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: and came back again on Sunday and did what you 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: saw on TV unreal. So I don't know why they 29 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: weren't picked up, but it took this for them to 30 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: get picked up. 31 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: Crazy, So I mean police would have come the other times. 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: Right shop? So yeah, I assume. So three days in 33 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: a row. Yeah, yeah, three robberies in three days. 34 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: What smeth you're going to do from here on? Is 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: he going to go back? 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: Is he? 37 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: I mean he's broken nose as you write, swollen, I 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: battered and bruised, and clearly he is you say, really 39 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: good kid. He doesn't deserve this, None of them do. 40 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 2: And that's absolutely. 41 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: Right, that's right. They just accept that the violence is 42 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: part of their jobs these days. 43 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 2: Well it's just that it shouldn't be. 44 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: So yeah, he's going to go back like he's very 45 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: tough mentally and he just accepts it. That this is 46 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: how it is. 47 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: Like No, So I mean, yeah, what would you like 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: to see happen? 49 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: Well, I think the courts need to be more tough. 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: The police seem to do their job, but the courts 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: just they get a slap on the wrist and like 52 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: they get bail. Yeah, and my son's like he's really 53 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: angry about that. You know, he can deal with the 54 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: physical things and going back to work. It just makes 55 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: him mad that. You know, these kids just get away 56 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: with it because they do it. They just come barge 57 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: into the shop and just take stuff. And what is 58 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: the worker supposed to do? 59 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah, And you know who's to say now that 60 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 2: they've been bailed and this is the thing. You know, 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: they might come back on bail and do this again. 62 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. And if it's not them, it's someone else 63 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: because this just happens all the time. So I don't 64 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: know what the answer. 65 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: Is like and so young, you know, a thirteen year 66 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: old girl and from Felix Stowe, a thirteen year old 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: girl from Paraka, a fourteen year old from Plympton Park, 68 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: a fifteen year old from Tonsley, and then there's a 69 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: block an eighteen year old from Saint Agnes aggravated robbery. Guy. 70 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: If they don't get jail, you know, as a result 71 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: of this, then we've got a problem. 72 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: They'll just do it again and again and the other 73 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: kids say it and think cool, this is we can 74 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: do this. 75 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been given strict conditions. I don't know what 76 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 2: that means, what that involves, but it would be I 77 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 2: imagine what a curfew. I don't know if you've been 78 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 2: told the details from police or Matthew, but no. 79 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: Not particularly, just not particularly. They will keep them informed though. 80 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: I mean it happened like twenty four hours ago. But 81 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: the police have been fantastic and everybody at the hospital 82 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: at Madrey Hospital with fantastic. I can't thank them enough. Yeah, 83 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: but you know, I don't know what the courts will 84 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: do with them. 85 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 2: Unreal. And there was a customer I understand from the police. 86 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: He was, oh my gosh, that gentleman just came running 87 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: from the restaurant when he heard the commotion and you know, 88 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: you saw what happened. He was a Vietnam veteran. He 89 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: was absolutely lovely. Twelve stables in the back of his head. 90 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: Oh wow. 91 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. He spent the night in hospital as well, but 92 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 1: he came back to the bottle shop today and just lovely, 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: like he's fine, and you know, he was just asking 94 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: me about Matthew, and Matthew was worried about him, but 95 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: you know, he's tough, so he's fine. But yeah, it 96 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: was very scary. 97 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was not. 98 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: A fankful you want to get as a mother, No, of. 99 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: Course not, of course. Not any any words for the 100 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: government here. Well, you know you talk about the courts 101 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 2: and that's where it comes to, and the government has 102 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 2: to act here to give the courts the power and 103 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 2: the understanding that the community expects more, that workers expect more. 104 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Like I don't know what the answer is. 105 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: I think the government's doing everything I can seemingly. Yeah. 106 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: Right, I appreciate you coming on, I really do. And 107 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: thoughts with Matthew and hope he makes a speedy recovery 108 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: and he's back at workers. Well when will he go back? 109 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 2: Will he be back? But in a week or. 110 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: Two I think probably next week, I think. Yeah, he's 111 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: just very swollen and eyes you know, sort of closed 112 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: him and he saw the photo. Yah, hopefully next week 113 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: he wants to go back like he's not you know, 114 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: he's not. He's mentally fine. Like I said, he just 115 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: thinks this is kind of normal, Like, no, well. 116 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 2: It's it's not. He should know it's not. 117 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, I know, it's just because it happens so often, 118 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: like they just kind of expect it, Like, yeah, his 119 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: coworker just happened to step out for a moment and 120 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: that's when they came in, so you know, it was 121 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: just unfortunate. 122 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's it's you must be angry. I would be, 123 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: I am. 124 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, his dad's really angry to like everybody. 125 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you do unless you hire your own 126 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: security guard to guard you while you're at work, there's 127 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 2: no point being at work. 128 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: No, I mean that's it's a drive through bottle shop. 129 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: It's open, Like what are they supposed to do? 130 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: Crazy? Mel? Thank you for your time. 131 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: You had a good night. 132 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. I hope he makes a speedy recovery and is 133 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: back on his feet real soon. Thank you, Yeah, thank you, 134 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 2: Bye bye bye. Terrible, terrible, terrible, And you know this 135 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 2: is this is Modbury, this is where it happened, Northeast 136 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: groat Modbury bottle shop. And the vision was on the 137 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: telly but Mel, the mum on her son's bashing the photos. 138 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: I'm looking at them now, has left arm in one, 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: it's just his left arm covered in blood, his blood 140 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 2: and the eye shut, the blood on the face. Just unbelievable. 141 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 2: This poor kid who's just doing his bit, working away 142 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: and these kids thirteen. We have a problem in Adelaide 143 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: where this just happens over and over and over. And 144 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 2: only a week ago we had the AHA. I was 145 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 2: at the luncheon where David Basheer, who's the president of 146 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: the AHA. Here in South Australia, the Australian Hotels Association 147 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 2: called for mandatory sentences for these young crims. Oh it 148 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: doesn't matter what age. And the government's saying, well, we 149 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: won't go mandatree, but we've got tough sentences. The Police 150 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 2: Commissioner saying it's up to the courts. Well, maybe we 151 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: need legislation where it is mandatory, where you do this, 152 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 2: you automatically go to prison and get the message out 153 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: to these kids it is not acceptable, just not acceptable 154 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 2: for them to be doing what they're doing. Yeah, something 155 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: needs to change, and as we head into an election, 156 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 2: maybe it's time. Maybe the government needs to listen to 157 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 2: Mel about her son's latest robbery, latest bashing while at 158 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 2: work and an act to stop this happening in the future, 159 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: to crack down with prison terms on these these hoons 160 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: that feel they've got the right to take alcohol and 161 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 2: bash people in the process. Just not acceptable.