By Ann Marie Angebrandt
AN anguished Werribee mother hopes whoever bashed her husband until he was close to death is having trouble sleeping.
“They would have known what they were doing – it wasn’t just a punch to the head, they were out to kill him,” Dionne Bunker, 32, said.
“I hope they have enough of a conscious to turn themselves in.”
Ms Bunker’s husband, Glenn, 30, was found on his bicycle near the Hoppers Crossing train station in a stunned and bloody state by a passerby after the beating between 9.45pm and 10pm on 24 October.
Police have security footage of Mr Bunker leaving the Tigers Clubhouse pub on Old Geelong Road at about 9.45pm.
Ms Bunker said her husband told her from his Royal Melbourne Hospital bed late last week that he could not remember the attack.
He only knew he needed to get help, she said.
“He managed to get back on his bike because he knew it was his only chance to live,” she said.
Mr Bunker had surgery on his fractured skull and face last week, and is due for more operations this week.
Police are treating the incident as a random assault.
Werribee Police Detective Sergeant Kerin Maloney said police had a few leads after a public appeal for witnesses or information.
No one had been questioned or charged as of last Friday.
Mr Bunker had been buying presents for the youngest of the couple’s three children, Jasper, who turns two this week.
He regularly used his bike for errands after the battler family’s “rust bucket” car recently stopped running, Ms Bunker said.
Mr Bunker dropped off a few toys that he had bought in Werribee before he headed over to Hoppers Crossing in the early afternoon, Ms Bunker said.
“He said he’d be back for tea but I got worried when it got dark,” Ms Bunker said.
She received a phone call later that night saying she should rush to hospital because her husband was close to death.
“He was drifting in and out and I wasn’t sure if he was going to live or die,” she said.
Mr Bunker was improving last week and expected to see his son this week for his birthday.
Ms Bunker said she could not bring herself to reveal to Jasper, or her other children, Daizy, 4, and Amy, 7, what happened to their dad.
“Maybe one day I’ll tell them, but for now they think dad’s had a bad bike accident.”
Mr Bunker had been due to start a job at a Laverton North factory in the coming weeks.
Family and friends have rallied around the young family and started an appeal for donations.
Anyone interested in helping can call 0424 653 446.
Det Sgt Maloney said the police did not consider the area unsafe.
