Two men charged for brutal 45-minute torture of woman with 'multi-tool'
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: Two men have reportedly been charged after they tortured and assaulted a woman with a hammer, a knife and a multi-tool for 45 minutes. The incident happened before 1.45am on Friday, March 31, when Queensland Ambulance crews responded to the alleged assault at a property on Laycock Street in Surfers Paradise.
Upon their arrival, the officers found a 34-year-old woman, who was taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital with head injuries and a large laceration to her leg. The two suspects, who had known the victim, allegedly assaulted her with a hammer, cut her leg with a knife and used a multi-tool to cut her hair. Police reported that the 36-year-old man from Mareeba and the 40-year-old man from Surfer's Paradise had already fled the scene before police and paramedics at the location, according to Daily Mail.
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What are the charges against the two suspects?
The two men were arrested at a unit on Trickett Street. "It will be alleged the men, who were known to the woman, assaulted her with a hammer, cut her leg with a knife and cut her hair with a multi-tool over 45 minutes," Queensland Police said in a statement. The suspects have both been charged with one count each of torture, wounding, assault occasioning bodily harm, and deprivation of liberty. They're scheduled to appear before the Southport Magistrates Court, on Friday, April 7.
Similar incident
This horrific incident comes on the heels of another incident in which a 13-year-old girl was lured to a fake party and tortured for five hours on Saturday, March 11. The young girl, who cannot be identified due to her age, was invited to a house in Tewantin, near Noosa Heads, where she was allegedly tied up, burnt, stomped on, had bottles broken over her face and had knives thrown at her. Following the incident, three teenagers were charged with four criminal counts.
After the incident, the girl's face was "unrecognizable," and she spent a week in the hospital with a knife wound to the knee, a fractured wrist and severe swelling, as previously reported by MEAWW. "Her face was swollen to a degree that you couldn't recognize her. It looked like her head was going to explode," the victim’s mother reportedly said. She also said that the assailants gave her daughter a shower before making the girl clean up her blood. The three girls even threatened to kill her family, including her three-year-old brother, if she breathed a word about what had transpired.