Mother of wheelchair assault victim 'devastated'

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The mother of a Canadian wheelchair-bound man punched, stomped and beaten with a metal bar at a Sydney railway station says she is "devastated".

The vicious attack, captured on security video, has made headlines across Canada.

"I can't believe a human being would do that to someone else," Shellan Proden told the Canadian Press from her home outside the Canadian city of Winnipeg.

"It's like a savage."

Proden's 35-year-old son, whose name has not been released, was holidaying in Australia when the attack occurred on Tuesday night.

He has been in a wheelchair for 10 years following a snowmobile accident.

NSW police said he was waiting at the Mount Druitt train station in Sydney's west after watching a friend's band play a concert at the Rooty Hill RSL when the two youths approached and punched him in the face while he attempted to roll into a station lift.

He fell out of his wheelchair, was stomped on and bashed on the head with a metal bar wrenched from his wheelchair, causing a depressed skull wound and severe cuts, police said.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, have been charged with robbery and assault offences.

The victim has undergone surgery for his head wounds and is in a stable condition in Sydney's Westmead Hospital.

Tragedy has shadowed the Prodens.

The same year the 35-year-old had the snowmobile accident that put him in a wheelchair, his father was killed in a snowmobile accident.

- AAP