'I'm telling him to come back to me': Mother pleads for help
The mother of the man bashed unconscious while trying to get rid of gatecrashers at a Perth party, has made an emotional plea for help to find the attackers.
Ryan Ball had hosted a school ball ‘afters’ party at his Padbury home, as a favour for a friend’s teenager daughter on Saturday night.
But the 38-year-old is now in an induced coma at Royal Perth Hospital after he was assaulted while trying to stop gatecrashers entering the property.
“It would be better for yourself if you just come forward, and the parents, please,” Ryan’s mother Maureen said, fighting back tears.
“To the parents of this boy, who has taken away my son, please do something to help him now.”
Mr Ball suffered severe bleeding on the brain and a skull fracture, as detectives are still trying to work out what went wrong.
“I’m just telling (Ryan) to come back to me,” Mrs Ball said.
“He’s just dying to get out of there, but his brain’s just not there.”
“You’ve got to get up out of that bed and come back to your mum.”
Doctors have tried multiple times to bring Mr Ball out of his induced coma, but so far those efforts have been unsuccessful.
On Tuesday, detectives charged a teenage male over a separate assault at the same Padbury party.
Joondalup detective Adam Garcia says police have charged a 17-year-old male over the robbery of two people near the party in Padbury in the early hours of Sunday.
The alleged offender, from Currambine, recognised two males, aged 16 and 17, from the party and attacked them and robbed them, Det Garcia said.
The teenager was due to appear in the Perth Children's Court on Tuesday, charged with aggravated robbery.
