A youth who kicked policeman in the face refused to take bus to his court hearing after previously breaching bail conditions.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified, was back in custody after he was controversially granted bail earlier in the first week of the year after he was caught with a cellphone, defying the orders of the magistrate.
On Thursday he was expected to appear before another magistrate but the children’s court was told he had refused to get on the bus that took detainees there, The Age reported.
The teenager was charged for kicking a police officer in the head on Boxing Day (pictured)
NSW Police said the 17-year-old (pictured) approached officers at Melbourne shopping centre
The 17-year-old fled the scene shortly after but since been charged
The boy’s youth worker and lawyer explained he wanted to appear before the court via video link however the magistrate didn’t accept that.
‘I am not granting a video link if he refused to get on the bus,’ the magistrate said.
She added he doesn’t just get to choose to go on video link.
The teenager is charged with assaulting a police officer, intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing injury and assault after allegedly kicking the policeman in the face at the Highpoint shopping centre in Maribyrnong on Boxing Day.
Following a 2016 arrest, detectives understand the youth began to seek retribution against police.
Pictured: the injuries suffered by a police officer who was kicked in the head on Boxing Day
The officer (pictured), 25, was making a shoplifting arrest at the Highpoint Shopping Centre in Maribyrnong, in Melbourne’s inner west, when he was attacked
‘He harboured a hatred towards police and he stated he had been biding his time,’ the detective said on January 2.
‘He had been very angry towards police and wanted to get back at them, consistent with what he stated on Facebook.’
After he was granted bail on the basis that he’d held the grudge toward police over 18 months and had not been in trouble since the 2016 arrest, he was taken back into custody after being found a mobile phone.
It is believed while the arresting officer was on his knees arresting another boy for shoplifting the youth kicked him in the face.
As the case is before the children’s court, the names of children, court officers and lawyers cannot be published. The court locations also cannot be published.
The injured officer, a five-year veteran of the force, was taken to hospital after the alleged assault (pictured is Highpoint Shopping Centre)