CARRUM Downs resident Sahasranaman Ranjit does not believe Australia is a racist country despite being racially abused while he and his wife were attacked by a marauding mob of up 30 youths.
The couple were woken in the early hours of Sunday morning last week to find the group trashing their Fernwren Place property adjacent to the car wash in Ballarto Road.
Mr Ranjit, fearing for the safety of his wife and property, confronted the group, which raised tensions and resulted in the pack destroying the couple's entire fence.
The incident made headlines across Victoria after Mr Ranjit accused police of taking more than two hours to respond, a claim Chief Inspector Ron Cooke of Frankston police refutes. The Indian media also attempted to contact Mr Ranjit.
Chief Inspector Cooke said police arrived to a "very tense" situation with the first unit on the scene being forced to call for reinforcements. He said the situation took up to an hour to control.
Chief Inspector Cooke blamed poor planning for the system of laneways that were inaccessible to vehicles.
Mr Ranjit said the racist jibes directed at him throughout the attack were the result of disrespectful drunken young men rather than xenophobes.
"I have lived in this country for nearly 20 years and I have never been subject to racism," Mr Ranjit said.
"My children have achieved great academic success and were offered scholarships to the best schools."
The Sri Lankan-born Tamil said the Indian media, which has been accused of hysterical reporting over a recent spate of attacks on Indians in Victoria, tried to contact him through diplomatic channels in the days following the incident but he rejected their advances.
"I told those people do not give them my phone number. This is a great country that has allowed me to give my children opportunities that were not available to me in Sri Lanka. "This was a criminal act, nothing more."
Mr Ranjit's 20-year-old son, Ganga, is finishing a law degree at the Australian National University and has won gold medals for Australia in a number of marshal arts and kickboxing disciplines.
Mr Ranjit wants Frankston Council to block the laneway next to his property, which he says local youths use, and at times congregate, as a thoroughfare to the nearby McDonald's and the Seaford Hotel.
Along with other residents in the street, he also wants the bus stop - which is less than 10 metres from the couple's bedroom - moved.
"They sit there drinking, yelling and even having sex. You hear all sorts of things. I fear a young a girl will be raped there if nothing is done."