A 35-year-old man kills a 60-year-old man

If you are a sixty-year-old man planning to do a bit of shopping with your wife, would it enter your head that within several hours you will be lying dead in the middle of a smart shopping street after being king hit by a man twenty-five years younger than yourself? Forty-eight-year-old David Hookes had no idea as he entered that St Kilda hotel to celebrate Victoria's cricket win that some hours later he would be lying on the ground giving up his life after being king hit by a twenty-two-year-old.

Today's Daily Telegraph included this news in a report on the upsurge of violence in society:

In an extreme road rage attack, a North Parramatta father was killed after allegedly being punched to the ground by another motorist in Glebe on Saturday night.

Witnesses said Beni Sarkis, 60, and another man got out of their cars at the lights near the corner of Glebe Point and Parramatta Rds and started arguing about right of way.

The victim's alleged attacker Maka Afu, 35, of Marrickville, who is charged with manslaughter, made no application for bail at Parramatta court yesterday after refusing to enter the courtroom. Afu faces Central Local Court today.

All sorts of explanations are being offered this morning for this particular sort of violence and rage. Perhaps people should look first at the age and gender of the assailant – and then at the name.