A teenager who gatecrashed an Aussie music festival and later kicked a Perth security guard in the head as he lay on the ground is behind bars after breaching his bail to travel overseas.
As Tone Deaf reported in February, Martin John Fulton was arrested shortly after a video of him kicking 56-year-old Michael Rigby as he attempted to restrain another fence-jumper surfaced online.
“Following the incident on site, the security guard in question was immediately attended to by medical teams and taken to hospital by an on-site ambulance for assessment,” the organisers of Good Life festival wrote.
“The actual impact rocked my whole head, so the muscles in my neck are all sore,” Mr Rigby later told Nine News. According to Rigby’s associate, Fulton attended the festival with the express purpose of harming a security guard.
“It was a malicious act that he purposely intended to do – he admitted [on Facebook] that he was going to go there to attack security – so at no stage do we feel he is genuine or sincere that he wants to apologise,” fellow guard Shane Poulton told WA Today.
As Nine News now reports, Fulton faced Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday, charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, stealing, and trespassing.
He was due to be sentenced but the court heard he was overseas when a pre-sentence report was to be prepared, breaching his bail, and has been remanded in custody until his next court appearance next month.
