La 31-year-old Australian jockey, sonja wisemanwho had to compete this week in various tests of the Darwin Cupwas brutally attacked last Friday morning by a group of men who initially intended to steal his vehicle, parked at the door of his house.
The jockey, who will get married in three weeks, has reported that she left her Darwin home early to get something that he had left behind in his car. “Suddenly the glass in the passenger side window shattered,” Wiseman told ‘racenet’.
The young woman continued her story, explaining that it was a large group of attackers: “I looked up to my left – the steering wheel is on the right – and there was a group of 10 to 15 men. I don’t know if they had noticed that he was in the carbut as soon as I looked up, everyone started laughing.”
The athlete said that she closed her door and tried to start the car: “I turned it on but in my panicked state I kept turning the key even though it was already running. My vehicle is manual and I even forgot to press the clutch to start driving,” he said.
“Get out of the car, bitch”
Then, the vandals attacked her: “They began to knock on my door to open it, while saying: ‘Come on, get out of the car, bitch’. I was terrified. They were literally like a pack of coyotes out hunting.”.
Your partner was sleeping at home and you didn’t know
As Wiseman details, your partner was sleeping in the house at the timebut didn’t find out anything. Amid so much confusion, she He had time to dial the emergency number on his mobile phone and began to honk the horn.. “I knew it was going to be tough,” she said. The worst was yet to come.
“Then they hit me in the face with a stone, they broke my nose in three different points, they smashed my lip and they broke several teeth.. I put the car in motion, but they blocked my way, “he narrated. That’s when security members came to a nearby military barracks who were listening to the horn of the vehicle. The criminals fled and a neighbor left her house to attend to her and notified her partner. The police have been investigating the case ever since to find the attackers.
psychological injuries
According to Sonja, who during her career has won more than 3 million dollars in prizes, she knows that she will recover from physical injuries, “but the psychological scars are something else. I’ve already had several panic attacks”. The doctor cleared her to compete in the Darwin Cup trials if she was well, but the jockey is getting married in three weeks, “and I have to deal with these facial injuries.”
Wiseman, in any case, acknowledges: “I’m lucky to be alive, because I really feared the worst when I was stuck in the car.. It’s crazy to think that you’re not safe even sitting in your car.”
