By PAUL MILLAR
A DRYSDALE mother of two, badly beaten by two thugs in her back yard and held down as they scrawled text on her forehead, has been spirited away to a safe house.
The hooded attackers wrote “cop rat” on her face after entering the back yard of her High Street home on Sunday night.
Detective Senior Constable Simon Keogh said the 25-year-old was not a police informer and it was a “real mystery” as to why she had been targeted by the two men.
“There is just no reason for this to happen, she is not a police informer,’’ he said.
Police are investigating whether a graffiti attack on the home three weeks ago is linked to her bashing.
The 25-year-old was hanging out washing in her back yard around 10pm when two hooded men rushed her, beating her to the ground.
The woman managed to text her brother Nathan Sobko, saying: “I need help”.
He arrived at the rear yard and saw sister Julie in a distressed state and immediately contacted emergency services.
The victim’s mother Lyn Sobko, said her daughter had sustained severe bruising down one side of the face and was badly traumatised.
“My daughter is very mixed up and very emotional,” Ms Sobko said, as she choked back tears.
“I think I am now looking at everybody in the street, wondering, is it you?”
She said her daughter was now in a safe place.
“She has a massive black eye and it hurts me to see it,” she said.
Detective Senior Constable Keogh said police were appealing for any witnesses or anybody with any information relating to the bashing.
