'I kick you again!' Pensioner, 75, beats up A Current Affair reporter, 25, before stubbing his cigarette out on his shirt - after admitting burning down his house so his ex-wife wouldn't get it
- Krste Kovacevski is charged with damaging the property using fire last year
- He admitted setting the Wollongong property alight so ex-wife wouldn't get it
- Outside court on Monday, Kovacevski attacked a reporter from A Current Affair
- 'F*** off! F*** off! I am not going to answer you any questions, you idiot,' he said
A 75-year-old man attacked a reporter in the street after admitting that he burned down his house so his wife wouldn't get it in their divorce.
Krste Kovacevski, of Wollongong, is charged with damaging the property using fire on August 4 last year.
Outside Wollongong Local Court on Monday, he repeatedly hit and kicked a reporter from A Current Affair who asked him about the case.
The incident was caught on camera – including the moment Kovacevski attempted to put his cigarette out on the shirt of reporter Taylor Auerbach.
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A 75-year-old man attacked a reporter in the street after admitting that he burned down his house so his wife wouldn't get it in their divorce
'Did you burn your house down to stop it going to your wife?' Mr Auerbach asked Kovacevski.
'F*** off! F*** off! I kick you again. I am not going to answer you any questions, you idiot,' Kovacevski replied.
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Kovacevski had already packed up his few belongings into his car and was found by police standing outside the house in Coniston, watching it go up in flames.
'I was in the garage, I looked around. I see the kerosene, grab it and light it up. That was it,' he told police at the time, the Illawarra Mercury reports.
Outside Wollongong Local Court on Monday, Krste Kovacevski repeatedly hit and kicked a reporter from A Current Affair who asked him about the case
Kovacevski was also seen using a piece of dry wood to attack the reporter and a cameraman
'I lost everything, so I've got nothing to worry [about].'
When firefighters questioned him, he pointed to his divorce papers and said: 'That's where it started.'
Shortly before the fire, Kovacevski's lawyer had lodged signed legal documents on his behalf to transfer ownership of the property to his ex-wife, who he had separated from in 1991, after a July court decision.
He told police that he 'had nowhere to go' after he received a legal notice on August 3 giving him 40 hours to vacate the property.
Police found Kovacevski outside the Coniston house (above), watching it go up in flames
Shortly before the fire, Kovacevski's lawyer had lodged signed legal documents on his behalf to transfer ownership of the property to his ex-wife
'I lost everything with the same person. Then I saw the pressure go up,' he said.
But Kovacevski claims the house was still legally his at the time of the fire.
His solicitor argues the case rests on who owned the property when the fire was started. The prosecution argue that it was joint-owned.
Magistrate Mark Douglass was due to hand down a decision on Monday, but the matter was adjourned.
The matter will return to court in June.
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