Alleged crime boss Rafat Alameddine and his cousin Hamdi Alameddine have confronted the primary day of their trial accused of attacking an Uber driver within the basement of a Merrylands unit block in 2019.
In his opening handle, Crown prosecutor Louie Christoff instructed Parramatta District Courtroom the Alameddine cousins stopped the alleged sufferer in a storage on Merrylands Highway and tried to take his automobile keys from him earlier than certainly one of them received within the entrance seat of his automobile.
Christoff instructed the court docket there can be proof the Uber driver, a father-of-two, was assaulted, leaving him with a deep reduce above his eye, after he tried to take footage of the cousins on his cell phone.
In his proof yesterday, the alleged sufferer stated he yelled out "assist, assist, assist" within the storage earlier than he was cornered and punched because the Alameddines tried to take his cellphone from him.
He stated he ran out of the storage after Hamdi Alameddine and onto the road in an try and get his cellphone again.
However the man didn't attain him earlier than he received right into a automobile and the Alameddines took off.
The Alameddines have pleaded not responsible to 1 rely of theft in firm inflicting wounding and one rely of aggravated assault with intent to take a motorized vehicle in firm.
Defence barrister April Francis stated the alleged sufferer misunderstood why the pair had approached him and stated her shopper had needed to speak to him, believing he had been concerned in an earlier automobile accident involving his work ute.
The trial continues.