British mother’s horror as Australian ex-partner stabs and beats to death their son, 11, with a cricket bat at sports practice

A British has revealed the horror of watching her ex-partner stab and beat their 11-year-old son to death with a cricket bat at sports practice in Australia.
Police shot Luke Batt’s father Greg in an attempt to halt the frenzied attack, but the young boy was pronounced dead at the scene and his father died later in hospital.
Horrified parents and children who were gathered at the ground for evening cricket training watched the Greg attack his son with a knife and cricket bat on Wednesday evening at Tyabb Cricket Ground, in Victoria.
Describing the moments leading up to her son’s death she said ‘Luke came to me and said, ‘Could I have a few more minutes with my dad?’ because he doesn’t see him very often and I said, ‘Sure, OK.’
‘It was just a little cricket practice, there were people there, I believed he was safe,’ said Mrs Batty, 52.
‘I looked for help, and I ran towards help and screaming, ‘Get an ambulance, get an ambulance, this is bad, this is really, really bad,’ she said.
‘From what I could see, Luke had been injured. I thought it was an accident, I had no reason to think otherwise.’
‘What triggered this was a case of his dad having mental health issues,’ she told the Herald Sun.
‘He was in a homelessness situation for many years, his life was failing, everything was becoming worse in his life and Luke was the only bright light in his life.
‘No one loved Luke more than his father. No one loved Luke more than me — we both loved him.’
Recounting the horrific incident, she added: ‘It was just a normal cricket practice and most of the kids and their parents had gone.
‘Luke came to me and said could I have a few more minutes with my dad because he doesn’t see him very often and I said yes, sure, that’s OK.
‘There’s no reason for me to be concerned, there was no reason to be concerned, I thought it was in an open environment – that’s something I have to understand.’
Ms Batty, who is originally from Lincoln in England said that police told her it was a calculated act that would have occurred at some point.
The horrific attack unfolded at around 6.30pm in an outer suburb of Melbourne on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.
Tyabb is a quiet township with a country fire station, a railway station and three small primary schools including Flinders Christian Community College, where the boy was a sixth grade pupil.
Witnesses told the Herald Sun the father turned on them with the knife, forcing one of the officers to shoot him in the chest.
Local police from Mornington station arrived on the scene at 6.40pm, when four officers confronted the man and tried unsuccessfully to subdue him with capsicum spray.
As the news was broadcast, horrified Australians have begun posting tributes to the boy on social media.
Paramedics tried to save the boy, but he died at the scene from severe head injuries.
An emergency services helicopter took the father to the Alfred hospital, where the man died at around 1.30am on Thursday.
Victoria Police commander Doug Fryer confirmed the ‘male that the police shot was the ­father of the deceased boy’.
They’ve attempted to use less than lethal force, ‘ Commander Fryer said. ‘They’ve attempted to talk him down. That has been unsuccessful.
‘They have then discharged a firearm, hitting that male once in the chest.
‘We’ve had an absolute tragedy here tonight. It’s a horrific scene.’
Police later interviewed witnesses, including young children.
The incident has shocked the local community, with one resident describing how ‘a shiver’ ran down his spine when he heard ‘a couple of pops’ and realised they were gunshots.
Tyabb Cricket Club’s junior cricket co-ordinator, Ron Dyall, said the boy had played for the club for two or three years and was also an avid footballer.
Mr Dyall said he was devastated by what had happened.
‘My own son plays in [the boy's] team. I’m trying to figure out how to break it to him, and how we’re gonna deal with the kids.’
The Victorian Homicide Squad will conduct an investigation into the deaths.

Whites dominate Hollywood – British-Nigerian Actor Hakeem Kae Kazeem

Nigerian Born Hollywood actor, Hakeem Kae Kazim, has revealed that he turned down several Nollywood scripts as such scripts did not match his standard.

In an interview with HipHopWorld, the British-Nigerian, who played George Rutaganda in the Academy Award-nominated movie, Hotel Rwanda, also disclosed how director, Obi Emelonye, wooed him over to Nollywood with the script of Last Flight To Abuja.

“I did the TV series called 24, up in Los Angeles, United States, then one Nigerian director I had met at some film festivals said to me, ‘Nobody knows you are Nigerian in Nigeria’.

“I was shocked and he said, ‘You have to come home and do something’. Then a year and a half later, he presented a script, Inale. It was my first experience coming back into Nigeria and working in Nollywood. And then he said will I come and do his movie; it was Last Flight To Abuja.

Again, the reason why I did it was because he was the director and one that is trying to move the Nollywood film experience to a higher level so I wanted to help him do that and so I came back and did Last Flight To Abuja, which was an interesting filming experience,” Mr. Kae-Kazim said.

He also noted the discrimination of black actors in Hollywood….

“Yes, there is discrimination in one sort of sense but the major fact is that in Hollywood, whites are the majority there. They are doing their own work and are just telling their own stories from their perspective and most times they just have a person of colour they want to put in as they deem fit. And I think it’s up to us to be able to tell our own stories.

The most important thing is for the African race both in Hollywood and Nollywood to put together their resources to provide infrastructure and to start a process of telling their own stories so that the stories come from them and by them,” he said.

Mr. Kae-Kazim described his experience with Nollywood superstars, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji, as good. He talked about how great it was for him to have come and experienced some of Nigerian talents and hopefully influence the talent and help raise everybody’s game.