Pari just wants to get a good night’s sleep – but each morning he’s woken by NSW police, telling him to move on

Pari Nikau is homeless and sleeping rough at Sydney’s Central station. He is recovering from wounds received when he was attacked when asleep in a shed. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Pari Nikau was woken by being hit in the face with a shovel. He had been sleeping in a shed on a rooftop near Sydney’s CBD and he thought he was safe.

He remembers playing dead, then blackness.