{"id":722913,"date":"2026-06-08T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722913\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:09:11","slug":"wa-father-brodie-stokes-will-struggle-to-get-on-with-normal-life-after-alleged-assault-causes-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722913\/","title":{"rendered":"WA father Brodie Stokes will struggle to get on with \u2018normal\u2019 life after alleged assault causes brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A WA father-of-three who was left in a coma after allegedly being assaulted during a confrontation over hooning outside his property will struggle to get on with \u201cnormal\u201d life due to his extensive injuries.<\/p>\n

Brodie Stokes, 43, suffered brain damage, skull fractures and cerebral swelling after he was allegedly coward punched by 22-year-old Kade David Duthie in early May.<\/p>\n

Mr Duthrie has since been charged with grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s alleged Mr Duthie was driving his Toyota LandCruiser and doing burnouts out the front of Mr Stokes\u2019 Deepdale property on May 15 when Mr Stokes confronted the young man and his passenger, asking them to stop \u201chooning\u201d.<\/p>\n

Police claim CCTV footage showed Mr Stokes approaching the pair before Mr Duthie delivered a single punch to Mr Stokes\u2019 head which caused him to fall and hit his head on the ground.<\/p>\n

Mr Duthie\u2019s lawyer argued in court that he was allegedly swung at by Mr Stokes three times during the alleged altercation before he delivered a single punch in self-defence.<\/p>\n

Since the date of the alleged assault, Mr Stokes has been in the ICU of Royal Perth Hospital but is now said to be in a stable condition after weeks of fighting for his life.<\/p>\n

The court was told Mr Stokes would not be the same after the incident and would struggle to get on with \u201cnormal\u201d life.<\/p>\n

After the alleged incident, a GoFundMe page was started by a relative of Mr Stokes, which has raised almost $30,000 to date.<\/p>\n

The relative said Mr Stokes sustained a brain injury and was put into an induced coma.<\/p>\n

\"HooningCamera IconHooning Marks. Credit: Sienna Seychell\/RegionalHUB<\/p>\n

Family said Mr Stokes had always been the kind of person to help others without hesitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrodie is a loving husband, father, son and friend who means so much to everyone around him . . . now he needs our help more than ever,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery donation, prayer, and share means the world to our family and gives us strength and hope during this critical time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Duthie will reappear in court on June 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WA father-of-three who was left in a coma after allegedly being assaulted during a confrontation over hooning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,23800,48,44,45],"class_list":["post-722913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-courts-justice","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}