The construction boss son of an elderly widow whose house was sprayed with litres of blood-red paint has shut down suggestions his mum’s upmarket home might’ve been attacked by a disgruntled tradie.
Narelle Green, who is in her late 70s, had her $2million two-bedroom home vandalised during the early hours of Monday morning, leaving Mrs Green shaken and neighbours mystified.
The picture-perfect cottage in Leichhardt – a suburb in Sydney’s inner west best known for its Italian delis and trattorias – was drenched in oil-based red paint which took a four-man cleaning team an entire day to remove.
Now her son, 52-year-old Niklas Green, has told Daily Mail Australia the family is still at a loss to explain just who was responsible for the flagrant act of vandalism.
‘We’ve got no idea,’ he said.
‘We had the police down and they think that it was done with pistol guns and perhaps they got the wrong address. But, yeah, nothing.’
The bizarre paint attack came just a few years after Mr Green’s construction company Green Core did a full renovation of his mum’s property back in 2019.
But Mr Green shot down any suggestion that the paint spray could have been a revenge attack from a disgruntled sub-contractor.
Niklas Green (pictured) said his mother was ‘shocked’ by the brazen vandalism but that the local community had rallied around her
Mr Green said he and his brother Lee had worked on the property.
‘He (Lee) and I paid for it is what we did. We gave mum the money and mum paid for it. She paid all the contractors herself,’ he said.
Mr Green (pictured) said the police thought the house might have been sprayed with ‘water pistols’ but that they had no idea about motive
Asked if he had any outstanding