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Two charged over violent attack on 27-year-old Irishman in Australia

The victim sustained serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack.

TWO MEN HAVE been charged over a violent attack on a 27-year-old Irishman in Perth in Australia.

The victim sustained serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack in the early hours of Sunday.

The man had been smoking a cigarette outside the front of a friend’s house on Palmerston Street in Perth between 3am and 4am on Sunday morning when two men approached him and asked for a cigarette.

One of the men punched the victim in the face without warning, causing the 27-year-old to fall to the ground. The two men then began to systematically punch and kick the victim before stealing an undisclosed sum of money and a cigarette lighter.

Police in Perth have charged a 37-year-old man with aggravated stealing with violence and he will appear in court today, the Herald Sun reports.  A 24-year-old man already appeared in court yesterday charged with the same offence.

The victim, who has asked to be identified only as Michael, is a welder from Cork who has been in Australia for the past 18 months.

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