A man has been charged after allegedly punching a five-year-old boy in the face, knocking him to the ground in an unprovoked attack on a inner Sydney street.
The boy was walking with his nine-year-old brother and grandmother in Glebe on Tuesday when a stranger approached and punched him.
Less than an hour earlier, police say the same 40-year-old man punched a 23-year-old woman in the head twice in another unprovoked attack.
The woman was also knocked to the ground during the nearby attack in Camperdown.
Both of the victims suffered facial bruising.
Police arrested the man on Thursday morning, charging him with two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He was refused bail and will appear at Central Local Court on Thursday.
