A distinctive leg tattoo helped police identify Home and Away child actor Felix Dean as the assailant who bashed an Uber driver on a busy suburban street.
The tattoo shows an attractive young woman with a heart on her cheek holding an ace of spades and a long-nailed finger to her lips in a 'shhh' gesture.
It was captured on CCTV footage at the scene of the crime and is visible in social media pictures of Dean.
Dean was just 10 when he got his big break on Home and Away, acting alongside Ada Nicodemou as her character Leah Patterson's son VJ from 2007 to 2014.
Since being replaced in that role in the long-running television drama at age 17 by the older Matt Little he has not had another acting credit.
His life has apparently spiralled out of control in the past couple of years as he found himself unemployed, homeless and living off Centrelink
A distinctive leg tattoo helped police identify Home and Away child actor Felix Dean as the assailant who bashed an Uber driver in an unprovoked attack. Dean is facing a raft of charges over five sets of incidents including the alleged assault of a tobacconist with a hammer
Dean's tattoo shows a long-haired young woman holding an ace of spades with a finger to her lips in a 'shhh' gesture. It was captured on CCTV when Dean assaulted an Uber driver in Sydney's inner-west and is visible in social media pictures of him
Dean is now facing a raft of charges over five sets of incidents including the unprovoked attack on the Uber driver and the alleged assault of a tobacconist with a hammer.
He has already pleaded guilty to assaulting the driver with intent to rob him and to smashing another man's window earlier the same night after being caught urinating outside his home.
The 24-year-old has also admitted driving his car through the security gates in a Sydney hotel underground car park, causing more than $7,000 damage.
He is facing 11 charges including assaulting police, affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and larceny.
In the past 18 months Dean has been arrested four times by three police local area commands over offences allegedly committed in four Sydney suburbs.
On January 6 he was drinking with a friend in a park behind Newtown's King Street when a resident caught him urinating outside his unit shortly before 9pm.
Dean played VJ Patterson in Home and Away from 2007 to 2014. Since being replaced in the role as a 17-year-old by the older Matt Little he has not had another acting credit. Dean is pictured with on-screen mother Ada Nicodemou
Dean is facing 11 charges including assaulting police, affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and larceny
The resident had called out, 'Come on mate, people live here, what are you doing?' and Dean responded, 'Do you want a fight?'
After the man dialled Triple Zero and showed the unemployed actor his phone screen, Dean picked up a bottle and smashed one of his windows.
About an hour later Dean was standing on a footpath in nearby Erskineville Road when an Uber driver drove past and turned into Wilson Street.
Dean ran in front of the vehicle, slapped the bonnet, opened the car door and began throwing punches at the driver's head and face.
'Get out of the car you f***king c***,' Dean told the driver, who kicked him in the abdomen, closed the door and drove off.
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