Melb Label Owner Threatens Closure After Assault Suspect Found Wearing Its Merch

The operator of Melbourne-based hip hop label Broken Tooth Entertainment, emcee and producer Ciecmate, has strongly condemned the man accused of assaulting multiple women at a Melbourne train station on Sunday morning after it emerged he was apparently dressed in a piece of the company's merchandise.

As Fairfax reports, a 47-year-old Carnegie man was arrested following the attack at Glenhuntly station on Sunday morning, during which four women were pushed onto the tracks while waiting for their train.

Noting that the suspect was wearing a Broken Tooth hoodie at the time of the incident, Ciecmate said in a post made to social media that he was "completely shocked" by the notion that someone who considers themselves a fan of his label could also be capable of the behaviour seen at the weekend, making no bones about his opinion of the "scumbag" responsible.

"I would like to state categorically that, as a label owner, it is really disheartening to know that such a despicable lowlife scumbag would regard themselves as a fan of what we've built and, as a human being, I'm completely shocked that anybody could ever be so weak and this much of a dog," Ciecmate wrote this afternoon.

"BTE DOESN'T WANT OR NEED FANS LIKE THIS! EVER!!"

Much to Ciecmate's chagrin, the weekend's events were not the first occasion on which he's seen his label's name be misappropriated; in his post, he recounted an incident in Perth "a couple years ago" in which "some gronk wearing a HG [Hired Goons, also on Broken Tooth] shirt assaulted a woman and her boyfriend".

Explaining that the label "didn't stand for that then and we definitely don't stand for it now", Ciecmate drew a line in the sand on future such incidents, essentially putting the label's prospects in the hands of those who choose to represent it.

"I've decided that if anything like this happens again in future or if I catch wind of another incident like this involving BTE fans who are wearing our merchandise then I'll be closing up the label to completely distance myself from the stupidity," Ciecmate said. "There's no point in running a business if its name is tarnished by stupid, undisciplined and morally bankrupt members of the very community we cater to.

"I love what I do and what I've built, but I will not allow its legacy to be destroyed by idiots like this."

As Fairfax reports, the accused station attacker was charged with four counts of attempted murder, intentionally causing serious injury, affray and making threats to kill. He was due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court today.