Sydney, Australia (AHN) -- A homeless man suffered third degree burns to six percent of his body after he was set on fire by a homeless man in a broad daylight Tuesday.

36-year-old Christopher Peacock, homeless, was lying on a park bench near the corner of Riley and Foveaux St. when Stephen John Coates, 57,set him on fire with flammable liquid.

Peacock is now hospitalized at St. Vincent Hospital.

Magistrate Allan Moore has remanded Coates to reappear before the via a video link on November 15.

He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm and assaultoccasioning bodily harm.

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