Cameraman shoved to ground during on-air confrontation
A cameraman has been shoved to the ground, caught up in a heated family feud over an unpaid mortgage.
He was filming outside a man’s Adelaide home, when the occupant pushed him to the road during a violent altercation, which was all caught on camera.
The A Current Affair segment he was shooting, which aired on Monday, told the story of Janice Lang who agreed to help her son buy his first home by going guarantor on the loan.
Ms Lang told the program her son Brenton and his partner Johannah failed to meet their mortgage repayments for the $210,000 loan and now she risked losing her own home.
ACA dropped in on Brenton at his home to find out why he was not paying the mortgage, but the father of seven responded by lashing out at the cameraman, shoving him to the ground and breaking his camera.
Ms Lang claims her son and his partner have also failed to pay their rates, boosting their loan by $30,000, and making the mortgage higher than the property’s value.
“The Australian dream is to own your own home, we wanted to give that dream to our son," she told ACA.
“It just went really bad. He wasn’t going to be happy until he saw us bankrupt.”
The Commonwealth Bank, who the mortgage is with, told ACA it was doing everything it could to guide the family towards a resolution.
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