The 26-year-old was anticipating home-cooked lasagne and a bed with enough room to "starfish" in, but his homecoming took a bittersweet turn as he learnt another 26-year-old man had been hospitalised and was near-death after falling victim to a similarly senseless bashing in St Leonards on Wednesday night.

"I'm really sorry to hear it," Mr Cramp said.

"There's a guy in my room at rehab who had the same thing happen to him. Someone came and asked him for a cigarette and didn't like his response so just decided to beat him. It's not right. Something needs to be done about it because it's happened every weekend afterwards."

Mr Cramp caught the train to Wollongong on Friday afternoon, partly to prove to doctors at Royal Rehabilitation Hospital at Ryde he is capable of day-to-day tasks. He was greeted by his father Phillip, and taken home to meet his mother Angela.

He will return to rehabilitation and then possibly - next week - his own Cremorne Point home.

"He's got to pass the mum and dad test first," Phillip said.

He can't drive for another two months and carries a long zipper scar on his head, a souvenir from when doctors operated to ease a fatal level of pressure in his skull following the attack, outside the McDonald's near The Rocks end of George Street, June 2.

He was placed on life support at St Vincent's Hospital with severe bleeding to the brain.

The Cramp family has indicated a willingness to campaign on the issue of late-night street violence in the wake of his recovery.

Sydney man Daniel Angelos, 24, has been charged with assault over the attack on Mr Cramp.

Police have charged a 34-year-old man over the attack in Fairfield on Wednesday.