Premium Content Subscriber only A grandfather has been rebuked in court for trying to excuse why he violently beat and bruised his nine-year-old grandson. Prosecutor Sergeant Marcus Hahn said the child was taken to his paternal grandfather's house in a town south of Mackay on October 14 this year, after his father "got sick of him". "(The child) didn't want to be at pop's so he was sitting in the tyre out the front," Sgt Hahn said. "Nan was in the yard as well. "Pop came to the door and told him he had to the count of three to come into the house.