Perth Voice Interactive

A 52-YEAR-OLD man was admitted to hospital after being brutally beaten at Yokine bowling club on a Sunday afternoon.

Shane Manners was relaxing in the club when a man and woman entered the bar around 5pm to try to buy “shooters”.

The barman refused to serve them as they weren’t members or with guests, so the pair went outside and started running on the carefully manicured greens.

Mr Manners says he went outside to politely ask them to stop.

“Suddenly another man ran out from behind a wall, at the corner of the green, and started getting laid into me,” he told the Voice. “After that I remember getting thrown against a brick wall.

“Then the other bloke started kicking my head and punching me as well; the girl was in the background yelling abuse.

“The doctor at Royal Perth Hospital said I was lucky to be alive after receiving so many blows to the head.”

Mr Manners suffered a fractured nose and needed stitches above his eye and 10 days after the attack has trouble breathing through his nose: “It’s really bad timing, because I’ve just started a job in a tile warehouse and now I have to take at least two weeks off—I’ve got bills to pay,” he says.

Mr Manners is on the club committee and has been a  member for 10 years: he says the attack won’t stop him returning.

“The whole thing was pretty traumatic but you can’t hide away and let these morons beat you—I’m determined to get out and about and get on with things.”

by STEPHEN POLLOCK