Sickening moment thug in a Santa hat and his mates punch a helpless man on a busy train in front of terrified passengers
- Five thugs ganged up on a man sitting at the back of an out-suburbs service
- The man was on the Gawler train line in northeast Adelaide when attacked
- The four men and one woman repeatedly kicked and punched him in his seat
- Authorities said passengers shouldn’t intervene in conflicts but report instead
A man sitting in the back of train was brutally set upon by a group of five thugs – including one in a Santa hat – as police urge passengers to report assaults, not intervene.
The man was travelling along the Gawler train line in Adelaide outer northeast when four young men and a woman approached and began punching and kicking him.
Terrifying footage shows the men towering over the man as he tried to hide in his seat.
The woman is then heard yelling ‘he swung at me’, further enraging the group.
A group of four men and a woman attacked a man travelling to Gawler by train (pictured, the group beating the man)
‘F****** hit my missus you f***,’ a man in a white singlet screamed.
The men continued to swing at the passenger while the woman kicked at him until another brave passenger intervened.
Another woman from the front of the train rushed over to where the man was trying to protect himself from the onslaught of blows and separated him from the nasty group.
‘Let him go, let him go,’ she screamed while pushing herself between the man and the group.
‘Leave him alone. Please just leave him alone.’
The group then shouted ‘let’s go’ to each other and disembarked the stopped train.
The young woman continued to yell at the man until she was hauled off by a member of her group.
A female passenger eventually intervened and yelled at the attacking group to leave the man alone (above)
Frightened passengers, including elders, said they’re now afraid to take their usual commute and have called for a larger police presence on public transport.
‘I’m 77-year-old,’ one resident told Nine News. ‘If that got done in the train next to me, what can I do? Nothing.’
However, South Australia Transport Minister Tom Koutsantonis said authorities have already taken the first step against public violence by installing a new reporting system.
Passengers on board public transport will be surrounded by discrete QR codes that can be scanned in an emergency to report crimes on board a service.
‘We don’t want passengers to intervene, we want passengers to quietly and calmly look for the QR code, scan it and report what they see,’ he said.
He said the data collected from the reporting system will determine future security plans.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted South Australian Police for comment.
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