Dad stabs & beats his 11yr old son to death at sports practice before he is shot dead by police

Dad stabs & beats his 11yr
old son to death at sports
practice before he is shot
dead by police
An 11 year old boy (pictured above)
was brutally attacked with a cricket
bat and stabbed to death by his father
during a cricket training session in the
outer Melbourne township of Tyabb on
Wednesday.
Daily Mail reports
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
Greg attack his son with a knife
and cricket bat on Wednesday
evening at Tyabb Cricket Ground,
in Victoria.
Today Luke's mother Rosie Batty
(pictured above), who lives in
Willingham, Cambridgeshire, said she
believes the boy's father loved him,
but had mental health issues.
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. There's no reason for me to
be concerned, I thought it was in an
open environment - that's something I
have to understand.' 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.
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'.