An elderly woman allegedly assaulted by Anthony Koletti, husband of conwoman Melissa Caddick, has told the Daily Mail of the moment that led to his dramatic arrest.

Julie Brandon, 73, was allegedly bundled to the ground by the hairstylist after he allegedly shoulder-charged in a Sydney park.

She has now told the Daily Mail she still doesn’t know why Koletti, 43, allegedly bumped into her so hard it sent her crashing to the ground.

But she said the only reason she avoided serious injury was allegedly because ‘luckily my bones are good and I fell onto the grass’.

Ms Brandon said she didn’t even know who Koletti was at the time, and is still bewildered by the alleged daylight assault in the late afternoon of July 30.

She and a friend had been walking through Vaucluse’s harbourside Christison Park in Sydney’s eastern suburbs when she saw Koletti coming towards them.

Ms Brandon told the Daily Mail she was just 500m from the home she shares with her husband and had been just standing with her friend when Koletti approached them.

‘I thought he would just go around, and then his shoulder [allegedly] went into my left shoulder and I fell to the ground,’ she said. ‘I don’t know if it was deliberate’.

Julie Brandon, 73, (pictured) was allegedly bundled to the ground by the hairstylist after he allegedly shoulder-charged in a Sydney park

Julie Brandon, 73, (pictured) was allegedly bundled to the ground by the hairstylist after he allegedly shoulder-charged in a Sydney park

Julie Brandon, 73, said she did not wish Koletti any ill will and didn't want him to lose his job as a hairdresser following the alleged shoulder barge which felled her to the ground

A few minutes later, Koletti allegedly circled back, and Ms Brandon’s friend managed to snap this grainy photo on her phone

Anthony Koletti with Melissa Caddick, who disappeared in 2020 and her foot was found in a shoe washed up on the NSW South Coast three months later

Anthony Koletti with Melissa Caddick, who disappeared in 2020 and her foot was found in a shoe washed up on the NSW South Coast three months later

A few minutes later, Koletti allegedly circled back, and Ms Brandon’s friend managed to snap a grainy photo on her phone.

‘I wouldn’t have done anything but my girlfriend said I should, and got photos and my husband said later that I should go to the police,’ said Ms Brandon.

‘I’m 73 and I’ve had girlfriends who have fallen over and they have broken bones, so I’m lucky.’

The snap of the man – wearing a black Under Armour shirt, cap and sunglasses – was later posted on Facebook by local police as they investigated the alleged assault.

Koletti was widely identified as looking like the man pictured, sparking a media scrum outside the Rose Bay hair salon where he now works as a colour specialist, charging up to $156 for a cut and style.

He declined to speak, but handed himself in to police soon after, where he was arrested and charged with common assault.

Canadian-born Ms Brandon has lived in Australia for 50 years and her son, Joshua Brandon, is a film director and writer known for thrillers and crime dramas including  A Thousand Little Cuts, Houdini and Doyle, and Haven.

She told the Daily Mail she bears Koletti no ill will and does not want him to lose his job over the alleged shoulder charge.

Julie Brandon was in her local park with a female friend when a man she'd never met allegedly shouldered her, causing her to fall to the ground Canadian-born Ms Brandon, who has lived in Australia for 50 years, said she 'luckily has good bones' and didn't break any in the alleged incident

Julie Brandon was in her local park with a female friend when a man she’d never met allegedly shouldered her, causing her to fall to the ground. She later found out he was Anthony Koletti, widower of fraudster Melissa Caddick

Anthony Koletti with Melissa Caddick, who disappeared in 2020 and her foot was found in a shoe washed up on the NSW South Coast three months later

On the day of his arrest, Koletti was applying foils to a client at Anthony Talbot Salon in Rose Bay, where he works as the ‘specialist in colour’, charging up to $156 for a cut and style

Anthony Koletti has been charged with common assault and is due in court next month in the Downing Centre Court (Koletti is pictured in 2022 during the inquest into his conwoman wife Melissa Caddick)

‘I feel sorry for him. If only he’d stopped and asked if I was alright,’ she said.

‘I suppose he’ll say he didn’t mean it. I wouldn’t want him to lose his job’

The hairdresser now lives in a rented unit near a cemetery, 500m from where the alleged assault took place.

It is a short drive from the $10million Dover Heights mansion he once shared with conwoman Caddick before she vanished the day after an ASIC raid in 2020.

It was later revealed she had stolen millions from friends and investors through a Ponzi scheme to fund her luxury lifestyle.

Caddick is now believed dead after a shoe containing her remains washed up on Bournda Beach on the NSW South Coast three months after she disappeared. 

Anthony Koletti is due to appear at the Downing Centre Court on September 5, where he last attended during the inquest into his wife’s death.