A HORRIFIC gang attack on a defenceless teenager in Melbourne’s west has been caught on camera.

Shocking CCTV footage of the incident in Tarneit shows a group of African youths turning on another African teenager, stomping on him and throwing punches.

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The thugs then push the bashed teen up against a wall, and steal several items from his pockets.

media_camera Thugs surround a helpless teenager in Tarneit.

The sickening footage, aired on Nine’s A Current Affair, shows one of the youths climbing onto a car bonnet and then jumping on the victim, who is lying helpless on the ground.

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media_camera The youth was stomped on and bashed.

“It’s terrible. There’s a victim in our community who’s been subjected to what looks like a really serious assault,” Commander Russell Barrett from Victoria Police told A Current Affair.

“Whether there is a level of organisation in it, I can’t say at this stage, but we will obviously investigate it.”

Tarneit residents have been living in fear after a trashed local community centre became the symbol of the state’s youth gang crisis.

Young thugs hijacked a new estate’s community centre and park, going on nightly vandalism sprees, trashing homes, and terrorising families.

media_camera Some of the damage to the Ecoville Community. Picture: Nicole Garmston

MTS — the tag for emerging crime gang Menace To Society — was daubed on walls of the community centre.

MTS is linked to the notorious Apex gang, which has wreaked havoc across Melbourne over the past two years.

Originally published as Sickening Tarneit gang attack on CCTV