'Dog' tattooed to man's face in Albion Park assault: court

By Paul McInerney
Updated November 5 2012 - 10:04pm, first published March 3 2010 - 9:55am

A 34-year-old Wollongong man accused of bashing a teenager with a baseball bat and forcibly tattooing the word "dog" on his forehead was remanded in custody when he appeared in Wollongong Local Court yesterday.Jason Allen Tattersall, of Atchison St, is charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, wounding with intent to take advantage, occasioning actual bodily harm in company and supplying a prohibited drug.The wounding offences are alleged to have taken place at a house in Murrogun Ave, Albion Park Rail, on February 23, between 3.30am and 8am.The drug supply charge relates to an amount of amphetamine allegedly found on Tattersall when he was arrested at Unanderra on March 2.Police allege that the victim was lured to a house where he was assaulted by a number of men, who repeatedly hit him with a baseball bat and kicked and punched him over more than four hours, before a tattoo gun was used to etch the word "dog" on the man's skull.The tattooing of the 18-year-old victim's forehead has overtones of the violent Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds where Brad Pitt's character tattoos swastikas on the heads of Nazi soldiers as a permanent reminder of their past.Tattersall entered no pleas in court yesterday and did not apply for bail.Magistrate Michael Stoddart remanded him in custody to appear in Wollongong Local Court via videolink on April 14.Four other people have been charged in relation to the incident.A man aged 28 and a 28-year-old woman, both from Albion Park Rail, and a 30-year-old couple from Nowra face charges of being accessories after the fact.

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