Sarah Crawford
The Daily Telegraph
September 11,2015
HE is the serial police assaulter whose own mother helped him in his attempt to resist arrest.
But Mohamed Atteya Abdulrahman has thrown one punch too many at the law after being found guilty this week of giving an officer a black eye during an all-in family scuffle with police as they tried to arrest him for assault.
Magistrate Shane McAnulty said it was a “very hostile situation’’ when police went to talk to Abdulrahman at his family home at Granville on October 17 last year over claims he had bashed his then fiancee.
The situation quickly deteriorated when officers attempted to arrest Abdulrahman. During the melee, the 21-year-old punched Constable Joel Swales in the eye as the officer tried to handcuff him.
At the time, Abdulrahman was on a two-year suspended sentence for assaulting police and resisting arrest on September 9, 2013. He was also facing two charges of assaulting police on December 20, 2013. He was later convicted and placed on a further 18- month suspended sentence.
Now three more offences can be added to that list after he was found guilty in Parramatta Local Court this week of punching Constable Swales, resisting arrest and common assault against his former fiancee Eda Inceol.
When police arrived at Abdulrahman’s home in October last year to make inquiries about the assault on Ms Inceol, he gave a false name and walked inside the house. The officers followed but when they tried to arrest him his family intervened.
Mr McAnulty said as Constable Swales tried to handcuff Abdulrahman “he is stopped by the accused and the accused's brother (Ahmad) who is attempting to shelter him and his mother who is attempting to get in the way’’. Mr McAnulty said Abdulrahman punched Constable Swales in the right eye.
Abdulrahman is on bail pending his sentence on November 16.
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