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Hammer assault with alleged Mongrel Mob patch bid
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Story summary
- Two early-20s men from Te Teko assaulted two men with a hammer at the Plains Hotel in Edgecumbe.
- Attackers allegedly sought Mongrel Mob patches during the assault.
- One assailant struck Edwards’ son’s friend on the skull with the hammer.
- The same hammer hit Edwards’ son in the right eye socket and forehead.
- Edwards’ son was hospitalized, received eye-socket surgery and will undergo a third operation next month.