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News18
03-06-2025
- News18
'Could've Been Avoided...': Wife Of Indian Man Hit By Australian Cops Reveals What Happened
Last Updated: Gaurav Kundi, an Indian-origin man, is on life support, after he was violently arrested by the Australian Police last week. His wife has detailed what exactly transpired that day. An Indian-origin man is battling for his life at a hospital in Australia's Adelaide as he slipped into a coma after his brain and nerves in his neck suffered damage from hitting his head on the road during a violent arrest by the local police, according to reports. The incident was recorded by 42-year-old victim, Gaurav Kundi's wife, Amritpal Kaur, who protested his arrest. 'I've done nothing wrong," Kundi shouted at the police, while his wife was calling the arrest unfair. However, she stopped filming the incident as one of the police officers drove his knee into Kundi's neck. 'Just 19 seconds video because I got panicked and I just sit on the ground with Gaurav," she told 9News. How Did The Incident Take Place Against The Indian-Origin Man? She recalled that Kundi's head was slammed against the police vehicle and the road during the police' arrest, after which he became unconscious. 'I was keep saying he's not well, he's not well, please don't do this, just call the ambulance," Kaur told 9News, recalling the incident. After the wife's protest, Kundi was admitted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where he remains on life support. 'Doctors are saying his brain is totally damaged. Maybe he will wake up if brain works, or maybe he will not," Kaur said. His Wife Narrates Entire Incident 'I just go out and follow him. What are you doing here? Let's get back home. You are drunk. You are not well. We will go home," she told 9News, to have told her husband. 'He just pushed me a little bit. You get aside, I can walk," she quoted her husband as tell her. The wife believes this may have been presumed by the passing patrol of a case of domestic violence. 'The policeman think he's assaulting me and doing domestic violence on the road but policeman is wrong. He is just drunk and that's why he is loud, nothing else," she said. She said that the situation could have been avoided if the cops had asked what had happened. 'They needed to ask first what we were doing," Kaur said on Sunday night. '(The police) can't do this s**t with someone's life," she added. The police, however, claimed that Kundi violently resisted the officers. Kundi suffered head injuries when he was slammed into the police car and the road. A police official also kneed in his neck when he was on the ground. 'His brain is damaged because policeman hit very badly on the road. On the car, his head. And his neck nerve," Kaur said. While the police attempted to arrest him, Kaur also warned the cops that he had pre-existing health conditions. 'His health is not very good and his heart is not working," she said. First Published: June 03, 2025, 13:57 IST
The Australian
02-05-2025
- General
- The Australian
Hero jogger pulls female from helicopter wreckage near Point Lonsdale
A helicopter has plunged into the surf just metres off the coast near Ocean Grove in Victoria's southwest, leaving three people seriously injured and sparking a major emergency response. The wreckage of the aircraft lies shattered about five metres from the shoreline, off Fellows Road, where it crashed into the ocean on Friday morning. The helicopter at Ocean Grove beach on the Bellarine Peninsula. Picture: Damon Johnston/The Australian Police confirmed that three people were on board at the time of the crash. A man and a woman were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, while a third man was transported by road, also in a serious condition. A passing jogger has been hailed a hero after witnessing the crash and helping rescue one of the passengers from the water. The Geelong Advertiser reported the man waded through the water and pulled a female passenger from the helicopter. 'They were flying low over the ocean and then crashed just off the shore,' he said. 'The passengers were in shock and couldn't walk. 'The pilot could walk but seemed beat up.' Helicopter going down at Ocean Grove beach, mid way between Ocean Grove and Point Lonsdale, on the Bellarine Peninsula. Picture: Damon Johnston/The Australian Wreckage from the crashed helicopter could be seen washing onto the beach. By midday, the last of the passengers had been taken away for treatment. Borough of Queenscliffe Mayor Di Rule said there had been a series of incidents in the region in recent times and wanted to thank the hero jogger. 'Thank you very much to the jogger that was at the scene. We've had a series of tragedies, but our emergency services in each incident have been marvellous,' Cr Rule said. Details about the cause of the crash or the type of helicopter involved have not yet been confirmed. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will investigate the crash with assistance from police. More to come.
Irish Times
30-04-2025
- Irish Times
Woman goes on trial in Australia accused of poisonous mushrooms murders
The Australian host of a weekend family lunch has gone on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband's parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms. Prosecutor Nanette Rogers opened her case on Wednesday against Erin Patterson (50) in the Victoria state Supreme Court. Patterson has pleaded not guilty to all charges. She served meals of beef Wellington, mashed potato and green beans at her home in the rural town of Leongartha on July 29th 2023, Ms Rogers said. READ MORE Her guests included her parents-in-law Gail and Don Patterson, both aged 70, Gail Patterson's sister Heather Wilkinson (66) and Mrs Wilkinson's husband, Ian Wilkinson (68). Australia mushroom poisoning: how a family lunch ended in tragedy Listen | 24:33 In late July, four relatives attended a family lunch at the home of Erin Patterson, a 48 year-old mother of two from Leongatha in Australia. Within days of the lunch, three of the guests were dead, with a fourth left fighting for his life in hospital. A beef wellington that was served for lunch on the day is suspected to have contained poisonous death cap mushrooms. But why were they in there? Australian police must now decipher whether it was simply a tragic accident or if there is something more sinister at play? John Ferguson of The Australian explains the details of the episode was originally published in August 2023. In November, Erin Patterson was charged by Australian Police with three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. Her trial will take place in 2024. All four guests were admitted to hospital the next day with poisoning from death cap mushrooms, also known as amanita phalloides, that were added to the beef and pastry dish. Mr Wilkinson survived after a liver transplant. Erin Patterson's husband, Simon Patterson (50) was also invited to the lunch but declined. The jury was told on Tuesday that prosecutors had dropped three charges that Erin Patterson had attempted to murder her husband, whom she had been separated from since 2015. Two weeks before the poisoning, Erin Patterson had invited her husband and his relatives to lunch while she was attending a Korumburra Baptist Church service where Mr Wilkinson was the pastor. Simon Patterson initially accepted the invitation. 'She said the purpose of the lunch was to discuss some medical issues that she had and to get advice about how to break it to the kids,' Ms Rogers said. 'The accused said that it was important that the children were not present for the lunch,' Ms Rogers said. The Wilkinsons were surprised by the invitation because they had never been to Erin Patterson's large five-bedroom house. When Heather Wilkinson was taken to hospital the next morning, she told Simon Patterson she had been puzzled by Erin Patterson eating from a different plate than those served to the guests. 'I noticed that Erin put her food on a different plate to us. Her plate had colours on it. I wondered why that was. I've puzzled about it since lunch,' said Heather Wilkinson, according to the prosecution. Simon Patterson told his aunt that his wife might have run out of plates. Ms Rogers told the jury that Erin Patterson fabricated an ovarian cancer diagnosis to explain why her children did not attend the lunch. 'After the lunch, the accused announced that she had cancer and asked for advice on whether to tell the children or to keep it from them,' Ms Rogers said. 'They had a discussion about it being best to be honest with the children. They prayed as a group for the accused's health and wisdom in relation to telling the children,' Ms Rogers said. Defence lawyer Colin Mandy told the jury his client never had cancer and that the guests had been poisoned by mushrooms she had served, but that the poisoning was accidental. 'The defence case is what happened was a tragedy. A terrible accident,' Mr Mandy said. Ms Rogers told the jurors that she would not provide a motive for the poisonings. 'You might be wondering now why would the accused do this? What is the motive? You might still be wondering this at the end of this trial,' Ms Rogers said. 'You do not have to be satisfied what the motive was or even that there was a motive.' Two days after the lunch, Erin Patterson went to hospital complaining of diarrhoea and nausea. By then, medical staff had diagnosed her guests as suffering death cap poisoning. Erin Patterson told authorities that she had cooked with a mixture of fresh mushrooms bought from a supermarket and dried mushrooms bought from an Asian food store. Mr Mandy said his client had lied to police when she said she had not foraged for wild mushrooms. 'She did forage for mushrooms. Just so that we make that clear, she denies that she ever deliberately sought out death cap mushrooms,' Mr Mandy said. Doctors insisted that Erin Patterson's two children, then aged nine and 14, be tested because their mother said they had eaten beef Wellington leftovers. Erin Patterson said the children were safe because she had scraped the pastry and mushrooms from the steak. She explained the children did not like mushrooms. 'The accused became teary and said she didn't want to involve the kids,' Ms Rogers said. 'She did not appear to be concerned so much about the children's health, but rather about stressing them out,' Ms Rogers said. Ms Rogers said Erin Patterson had not eaten poisonous mushrooms and had not fed her children the lunch leftovers. Health authorities treated the poisonings as an isolated incident and no mushrooms were recalled, the prosecutor said. The trial is expected to continue for six weeks. Erin Patterson is charged with three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Murder carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and attempted murder carries a maximum 25 years in prison. − AP
