DRUNK on a night out with his mates, labourer and part-time security guard Blake Frazer walked up to a well-known disability advocate and ripped the wheel off her wheelchair, sending her crashing to the ground.
And as the 23-year-old woman - who also lives with hearing and sight impairment - lay outside the King Street Hotel with cuts and grazes to her arms, Frazer ran away.
"A wheelchair is an extension of somebody's body," the woman wrote on social media on the day of the alleged attack.
"Not only is it property damage, it is also assault if you purposefully do something to it - like ripping a wheel off while the user is still in the chair.
"This is your not so friendly reminder to never do that."
Frazer had committed a "heinous and unprovoked assault against an extremely vulnerable wheelchair-bound victim" and then showed "no consideration for her welfare" by fleeing the scene, police said in court documents made available for the first time on Thursday.
Frazer, 24, of New Lambton, pleaded guilty in January to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but the matter has been delayed while he underwent a court-based diversion program.
He will be sentenced in July when a judge will watch CCTV footage capturing the assault.
According to court documents, Frazer entered the King Street Hotel about 11.30pm on October 31 last year.
He left about 2.15am and was walking along King Street with a group of friends when he approached the victim, who was sitting in her wheelchair and waiting for her friend.
The pair did not know each other and the victim was "minding her own business", police said.
"Frazer walked up to the right-hand side of the victim's wheelchair and forcefully pulled the right wheel off the wheelchair for no reason, capsizing the wheelchair onto the ground," police said in court documents.
The victim fell out of her wheelchair and onto the footpath, causing a cut to her elbow and grazes to her forearm.
Frazer ran away along King Street and other bystanders provided the victim with first aid and helped her get back into her wheelchair.
Police were called, spoke to the victim and obtained high-quality CCTV footage from King Street Hotel.
Officers spoke to hotel security, who identified Frazer from "prior dealings" and venue ID scanners.
Frazer was easily identifiable because of the distinctive tattoos on his face, forearms and lower legs, police said.
Police checked his address and then applied for a search warrant to look for the clothes Frazer was wearing on the night.
They went to his house in Turton Road later that day, but Frazer wasn't home.
They forced their way in and found some of the clothes Frazer was wearing on CCTV.
Police went back to the house the next day and when he answered the door, Frazer said: "That wheelchair thing, is it?"
He denied causing the wheelchair to tip over and claimed he did not know the wheel was going to come off.
Back at Waratah police station, Frazer was interviewed and admitted to pulling the wheelchair but did not provide a reason why.
He picked himself out of CCTV footage and stills and said he was intoxicated that night and had drunk a large amount of alcohol.
