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Anthony Clark, 50, is in hospital after he was beaten senseless by a gang of youths wielding baseball bats on Christmas Day outside his Mooroolbark home in Melbournes east.

Now, his devastated stepdaughter Jess Clark has revealed what kicked off the violent altercation just before 11pm on Wednesday.
Fifteen guys rocked up here and he just really didnt have a chance, Ms Clark told 9 News outside the Esther Crescent home yesterday.
They knocked my mum out right here on the driveway straight away.
They had bats, they smashed my car and then they just threw my mum around like a ragdoll, they hit me.
They were yelling because a firework went off and their dog was barking so now my dads dead because their dog was barking.
Four of them went my dad at once and one of them was just stomping him.

An 18-year-old man from Mooroolbark was arrested at the scene but released.

Up to eight people may have been involved in the fight, but so far it is only members of Mr Clarks family who have been arrested.
Jess, her brother and their partners have been charged with affray after a dispute in the street on Friday afternoon, according to the Herald Sun.