A teenage Melbourne girl is recovering in hospital being callously slashed and stabbed with a samurai sword at Australia’s ‘most dangerous apartment block’.
Laura Huxley, 18, had been drinking with friends at the Ambassador Apartments in Frankston, south of Melbourne, on Saturday night when she was suddenly set upon by another member of the group.
Police have charged 22-year-old Harry Hood with the attack.
Laura Huxley, 18, is recovering in hospital after she was set upon and attacked with a Samurai sword in an apartment on Saturday night
Despite the violent nature of the attack Harry Hood, 22, (pictured with a samurai sword) has already been released on bail
‘I yelled ”get off me, what are you doing this is uncalled for” and he was just calling me a bitch,’ Laura told Seven News.
A witness to the attack also told the program, ‘it was like a horror scene, she was gushing everywhere’.
Despite the severe and violent nature of the crime, the accused was released on bail soon after his arrest.
He was charged with intentionally and recklessly causing injury, assault with a weapon and possessing a prohibited weapon soon after the incident.
Disturbing social media photos of Mr Hood show him wielding samurai swords, kitchen knives and machetes while wearing skeleton-styled gloves.
Laura Huxley remains in hospital awaiting surgery for broken bones in her back.
Hood is seen on social media brandishing weapons similar to the ones used in the attack
The teen told Seven News her attacker ‘grabbed a samurai sword and slashed (her) four times in the head’
The late-night assault took place at the notorious Ambassador Apartment block on Frankston’s Nepean Highway.
The ex-motel found infamy when it became home to Melbourne’s cheapest apartment which sold in 2016 for just $89,000.
Further notability was achieved when the block become so dangerous local paramedics claimed they wouldn’t attend without a police escort.
The assault took place at the infamous Ambassador Apartments in Frankston, a beachside suburb 55 kilometres south of Melbourne’s CBD
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