A recent study by The Sentencing Advisory Council comparing the changes in sentence lengths, imprisonment rates and crime figures in Victoria over the last ten years has found: Since 2002 there has been an increase of more than 40%, some 5,000 people, in Victorian jails. The rate at which people are being sent to jail [...]
[ Read More ]VICTIMS OF CRIME COMPENSATION AND COUNSELLING SERVICES: 1800 000 055
Victims of Crime may be entitled to state government funded financial compensation, counselling and other services provided free of charge by experienced solicitors & psychologists ensuring the best financial and recovery outcomes for crime victims.
Crime Compensation can be up to $100,000. Compensation to a primary victim of crime can be $70,000 and to a secondary victim of crime $60,000 *.
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Victims of Crime Compensation and Counselling Services (VOCCS) has been operating in Victoria, Australia, for over fifteen years and specializes exclusively in facilitating free state government funded entitlements to victims of crime and has assisted in over 6000 crime compensation applications. In order for victims of crime to obtain the best financial compensation and recovery outcomes call us today on freecall: 1800 000 055
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Crime Compensation Call: 1800 000 055
Victims of Crime Compensation Eligibility:
Victims of Crime in Victoria and Australia may be eligible for State Government Funded Crime Compensation and other support services if:
- You are the victim and have been directly injured as the result of a crime.
- You have suffered either physically or psychologically by the crime.
- The crime was reported to the police and you made a police statement.
- The crime was committed in the last two years in Victoria, Australia**.
- You are related to a victim of crime.
email: support@victimsofcrime.com.au
Crime that have impacted victims may include: physical assault, sexual abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, domestic abuse, family violence, armed robbery, violent robbery, aggravated burglary, child abuse, child sexual abuse, indecent assault, home invasion, stalking, threats to kill, workplace assault, homicide, murder, culpable driving, dangerous driving, road rage, breach of Intervention Order, threat to harm, bullying or any other violent crime. Matters such as childhood sexual abuse and ongoing domestic violence may have occurred beyond two years**.
The offender does not need to be charged in order to apply for Crime Compensation.
Crime Compensation Applications are made in person or can be made over the phone, if a person is unable to travel.
Victims of Crime Compensation & Counselling Service also refers to solicitors and other service providers in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland experienced in supporting victims of crime to access their crime compensation entitlements.
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On the 13-05-13 a forty-eight-year-old woman was travelling on the Frankston train when at around 2.40 pm a male in his twenties sat behind her and began to verbally abuse her. The female victim then stood up and activated the emergency button and sat next to another commuter for protection. When the train stopped at [...]
[ Read More ]On the 12-05-13 at around 12.45 am a twenty-two-year-old male was pursued by an unknown male offender on a bike from the car park of the Mentone Hotel. The offender soon caught up to the victim threatening him with physical violence and demanding his mobile phone. The victim handed over his phone and the assailant [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday the 21st May 2013 at around 1.15 pm a forty-eight-year-old man was involved in an argument with two men and a woman at the Footscray Railway Station. One of the men allegedly punched the elderly man to the face and he then stabbed one of the men to the shoulder. The two men [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday the 21-05-13 at around 10.00 pm police arrived at a home in Reservoir to find that a thirty-year-old male had been stabbed to his arm. The victim, believed to be the Essendon AFL footballer Nathan Lovett-Murray, was transported to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Police have since arrested two males, a twenty-two-year-old and a seventeen-year-old. [...]
[ Read More ]On the 22-05-13 at around 3.00 pm a male offender entered a home on Georgette Crescent in Endeavour Hills and physically assaulted the seventy-three-year-old female resident with a sharp weapon. The elderly female victim sustained serious injuries to her neck and was transported to hospital for treatment. Casey CIU detectives are investigating the incident. If [...]
[ Read More ]On the 05-05-13 at around 9.50 pm a pizza delivery driver was ambushed and robbed while delivering a pizza to a home on Toogoolawah Drive in Melton. The three assailants were waiting in an adjacent vacant block when the driver arrived and the assailants then surrounded him and threatened him with a silver handgun before [...]
[ Read More ]On the 04-05-13 at around 4.45 am two men entered a home on Piccolotto Drive in Melton through an unlocked back door. The assailants were disturbed by the homeowner’s dog and fled on foot with a hand bag, bum bag and other stolen items. Melton police are appealing for witnesses. Victims of aggravated burglary call [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 21-04-13 at around 4.30 am a thirty-year-old female was asleep at the Melton Motor Inn when the male offender broke into her room and raped her. The offender is described as being aged from his late twenties to his mid thirties with straight hair and medium build and with an olive complexion. [...]
[ Read More ]On Friday the 10-05-13 at around 8.15 pm a male assailant armed with a shotgun robbed the Foodworks Supermarket at the Harrington Square Shopping Centre. Police indicated that more than twenty offences had been reported at the Harrington Square Shopping Centre over the past twelve months, including armed robberies and physical assaults. In July last [...]
[ Read More ]On the 07-05-13 at around 6.40 am a man was standing outside a St Kilda Tattoo Shop when he was approached by two males. The males demanded money and then punched the victim to the face stealing his wallet before fleeing in a red utility motor vehicle. Police are appealing or any witnesses. Victims of [...]
[ Read More ]Sexual abuse is a horrendous crime and it is really a tough debate as to determine the exact extent of the problem. Sexual abuse can happen to people of all age and any gender but as per studies, child sexual abuse is the most common and almost epidemic. Most people assume sexual abuse to be [...]
[ Read More ]Of the many ills plaguing our society today one very persistent and harrowing ill is Domestic Violence. Defined as a form of physical abuse on an individual by a family member domestic violence can occur in varied relationships ranging from a marriage to between siblings to between a parent and child and so on. Violence [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 19-05-13 at around 2.00 pm a twenty-seven-year-old legally blind female was walking with her guide dog along Parkmore Road in Keysborough when a motor vehicle pulled up beside her and a male assailant alighted and pulled her handbag off her shoulder before fleeing back into the back seat of the motor vehicle [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 19-05-13 at around 6.30 am a twenty-four-year-old female was walking through the Melbourne CBD when she was approached by an unknown male who proceeded to sexually assault her before fleeing. The female victim was treated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The assailant is described as being of Mediterranean appearanceand aged twenty-six to [...]
[ Read More ]Highlights: Robbery decreased by 7% from 14,582 in 2009–10 to 13,617 in 2010–11 3% decrease in victims of sexual assault with 17,238 victims, 519 fewer victims than the previous year. In 2010 – 11 there were 67 more recorded victims of kidnapping and abduction. In 2010 – 11 there were 14 more recorded victims of [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 11th May 2013 at around 12.30 am a male left a licensed premise on Moorabool Street in Geelong and was standing near the road when a white Holden Commodore sedan containing four or five male occupants drove past and beeped the horn. The vehicle soon pulled over next to the male and [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday the 14th May 2013 at around 7.00 pm a twenty-year-old female was placing groceries she had just purchased from the Somerville Road Supermarket in Hampton Park in her motor vehicle when she was approached by an unknown male. The male assailant grabbed the female victim around her waist and attempted to force her [...]
[ Read More ]On the 14-05-13 a fifty-year-old male was attacked with a sharp weapon at a vineyard pickers’ hut in Cardross Victoria. The victim sustained serious injuries including defensive wounds. Police indicated that Cardross is a small community and would like to talk with anyone who knows anything about the incident. Victims of physical assault call 1800 [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 5th May 2013 a fifty-nine-year-old man was leaving a supermarket in Robinvale when he was set upon by four male assailants and physically assaulted with a spanner in the supermarket car park before having cash stolen. The victim suffered minor injuries and was treated at the Robinvale District Hospital. Police are appealing [...]
[ Read More ]The Crime Victims Support Association in a non profit Charitable Association and is again running its annual Great Community Raffle and is calling for individuals to be involved to buy tickets as well as to help sell tickets. Tickets are $2.00 each and are tax deductible. The main prize is a new Nissan Pulsar valued at [...]
[ Read More ]On the 14-05-13 at around 10.50 am an armed male offender entered a home on Shetland Way in Sunbury and confronted the female occupant and her five-year-old son who had just returned come from the shops. The offender was armed with a gun and demanded money from the female victim and fled in an old [...]
[ Read More ]On the 03-05-13 at around 9.55 am a twenty-two-year-old female was at home in her Como Parade West property in Parkdale when she heard someone trying to force open the door of the upstairs balcony. The female immediately fled her home and returned some time later with her partner to discover that the door lock [...]
[ Read More ]A survey released this month of statistics on violence found that less than 50% of women who experience domestic violence report the assaults to police. The survey stated that there will always be women who are understandably distressed or embarrassed about having been subjected to such violence and subsequently do not report it. The survey [...]
[ Read More ]51,000 reported family violence incidents from 2011 to 2012. 64,000 reported family violence incidents estimated for 2012 to 2013. Ken Lay, Chief Commissioner, has said that family violence in on the rise and that the problem could not be solved by police alone. He said that recidivism rate is high and that the true extent [...]
[ Read More ]On the 09-05-13 at around 10.00 pm a twenty-seven-year-old male victim noticed a man lying on Dunstan Parade in Campbellfield. The victim went to assist the male who proceeded to kick the victim to the face and steal his wallet and mobile phone. Fawkner police are appealing for any witnesses. Victims of physical assault or [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 04-05-13 at around 2.00 pm a nineteen-year-old female was waiting at platform eight at Flinders Street Station in the Melbourne CBD when a male indecently assaulted her before boarding a train at platform five. The assailant is described as being in his twenties of Indian appearance and carrying a black laptop bag. [...]
[ Read More ]On the 06-05-13 at around 7.30 am seventeen-year-old female from Aspendale was riding her bike near Mordialloc Creek in Mordialloc when a male stepped out in front of her and threatened her with a knife. The male assailant demanded money and searched her school bag but fled the scene when an elderly man walking his [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 06-05-13 at around 8.30 am a thirteen-year-old boy was walking along Sydney Road in Coburg when a man approached him and asked him to show him directions on the Melways in his motor vehicle. The young male victim followed the assailant to a nearby stationary motor vehicle where the assailant lunged at [...]
[ Read More ]On the 04-05-13 at around 8.40 pm a man and two women were in their stationary motor vehicle at the corner of Heatherton Road and Gladstone Road in Dandenong when an unknown motor vehicle rammed the rear of their vehicle. Two male assailants then kidnapped the male and stole their motor vehicle. At around 9.45 [...]
[ Read More ]On the 24-04-13 at around 7.30 pm a fifty-five-year-old male victim was kicked unconscious in Dandenong Park before having a small amount of cash stolen. The victim sustained cuts and bruises and a swollen left eye and was taken by ambulance to Dandenong Hospital. Victims of physical assault call 1800 000 055 or go to [...]
[ Read More ]On Friday the 03-05-13 police were investigating two attempted armed robberies at service stations in Chelsea and Mornington when at around 11.30 pm they came across an overturned motor vehicle on Racecourse Road. The four male occupants were then arrested in relation to nine armed robberies in the Bayside and Mornington Peninsula areas over the [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 05-05-13 at around 1.00 pm a taxi driver was physically assaulted on Clarendon Street in South Melbourne. A twenty-year-old male was soon charged with intentionally causing injury and remanded in custody. Two females who were in the taxi have provided witness statements to police. Victims of physical assault call 1800 000 055 [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 04-05-13 police charged a fifty-four-year-old male with murder. Police arrived at the Barkly Street home in Brunswick at around 6.30 pm and charged the alleged offender with one count of murder shortly afterwards and who was remanded in custody to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. For victims of crime support and advice [...]
[ Read More ]On Thursday the 02-05-13 at around 1.00 pm a male assailant jumped into the front passenger side of the thirty-one-year-old female victim’s BMW motor vehicle in Footscray and threatened her with a sharp weapon. The assailant told the victim to drive to an ATM and to withdraw money. The victim drove to Union Road in [...]
[ Read More ]On the 14-04-13 at around 3.00 am a twenty-five-year-old male was walking through Fitzroy Gardens when he was punched to the head by an unknown male assailant. Three to four other assailants, including one female, then appeared and also physically assaulted the victim and stealing his wallet and mobile phone before fleeing. Two bystanders came [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 1st May 2013 just before 6.00 pm a nine-year-old girl was putting rubbish out at her front yard on Radford Road in Resevoir when a male riding a silver bike approached her. The male assailant grabbed her arm and the young female victim managed to free herself and run inside informing her [...]
[ Read More ]On the 13-04-13 just after 9.00 am a male offender entered a petrol station on the corner of Punt Road and Commercial Road in Prahran and threatened the female staff member demanding money. The offender indicated that he had a weapon and told the female shop assistant not to make him use it. The offender [...]
[ Read More ]On the 30-04-13 at around 830 pm a male aged in his fifties was attacked on Drummond Street in Carlton by four dogs. The attack lasted several minutes during which the victim sustained injuries to his arm, leg and back and was treated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Police arrested three men, aged from twenty-two [...]
[ Read More ]Community Safety Fund grants (CSF) The Community Safety Fund grants provide funding for communities in Victoria to implement locally based crime prevention projects. Eligible projects must address a crime prevention issue within a local community. Funding available is up to $10,000.00. Go to: crimeprevention.vic.gov.au/safetygrants. The Public Safety Infrastructure Fund (PSIF) The Public Safety Infrastructure Fund [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 30-04-13 there were two separate armed robberies in Notting Hill & Oakleigh. At around 6.00 pm three masked male offenders threatened the bottle shop attendant at a hotel on Ferntree Gully in Notting Hill with a screw driver. The offenders punched the staff person to the face before stealing cash and cigarettes [...]
[ Read More ]On the 30-04-13 at around 2.00 am the residents of a home on Torresdale Drive in Boronia were awoken by a barking dog and soon found two offenders attempting to break into their home. The assailants when confronted sprayed a forty-eight-year-old resident with clear paint before fleeing over the back fence. The victim pursued the [...]
[ Read More ]On the 19-04-13 at around 12.30 pm two men armed with a knife and a meat cleaver entered the Neerim Road Post Office in Murrumbeena and threatened staff. The assailants jumped over the service desk and stole money before fleeing in a motor vehicle driven by a third assailant. Police are appealing for witnesses. For [...]
[ Read More ]On the 20-04-13 at around 6.20 pm a Protective Services Officer (PSO) was abused and assaulted by a male who was consuming alcohol at the Dandenong Railway Station. Police soon after arrested and charged the offender. If you have been the victim of crime while at work call 1800 000 055 or go to www.victimsofcrime.com.au [...]
[ Read More ]On the 20th April 2013 at around 11.30 pm a fight erupted between two groups involving up to ten males and females inside a hotel on Raleigh road in Maribyrnong. A twenty-nine-year-old Melton man was struck with a glass during the altercation resulting in lacerations to the head and was treated at the Royal Melbourne [...]
[ Read More ]On the 16-04-13 at around 12.50 am a twenty-five-year-old male was withdrawing money from an ATM in Cleeland Street Dandenong when he was struck from behind to the back of his head and had his wallet stolen. Police indicated that two men of African appearance were seen running from the scene. If you have been the [...]
[ Read More ]On the evening of Monday the 22-04-13 four male assailants broke into a house in Colac armed with a machete and baseball bats. The male resident together with his son quickly fled the house while the assailants stole cash, computer equipment and electrical goods. Three of the four offenders were masked and described as being [...]
[ Read More ]The Sentencing Advisory Council has just published a new report which shows that the average sentence for sexual offences significantly varies from state to state. In Victoria the average sentence for sexual offences is seven years. In New South Wales the average sentence for sexual offences is nine years. In Tasmania the average sentence for [...]
[ Read More ]On Friday the 26-04-13 at around midday a forty-two-year-old female from Reservoir was walking along the Merri Creek bike path in Fawkner when she noticed a male sitting on a park bench looking at her. The male then asked her for the time and as she went to check her watch he grabbed her and [...]
[ Read More ]On the 20th April 2013 at around 2.00 pm a male assailant entered a licensed premises on Cumberland Road in Pascoe Vale and threatened the attendant with a tomahawk. The assailant then opened the register and removed cash before fleeing on foot. The offender was described as being of Pacific Island/Maori appearance with a long [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 10-04-13 at around 1.30 pm a male assailant physically assaulted a twenty-six-year-old male victim with a weapon causing serious injuries on Dundas Street in Preston before robbing him. At around 3.00 pm the same day the same assailant entered a tatts lotto shop in Carlton North and demanded money from the forty-seven-year-old [...]
[ Read More ]On the 25-03-13 at around 3.50 am a twenty-four-year-old male resident awoke to find a burglar going through his bedside table in his Newmarket Street home in Newmarket. The victim jumped out of bed and confronted the offender who ran through a rear door and fled along railway tracks. Two other occupants were at home [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 20-04-13 at around 4.30 am a taxi driver was physically assaulted by a male passenger in Montmorency. The taxi driver collected four passengers in Ringwood and during the fare one of the passengers was behaving inappropriately and verbally abusing the taxi driver. The taxi driver then stopped on Main Road and asked [...]
[ Read More ]On the 19-04-13 at around 5.45 pm a female was jogging through Burndap Park in Maribyrnong when a male rode past her on a bike. The male then got off his bike and approached the female before punching her to the face and then leading her into adjacent parkland where she was sexually assaulted. Footscray [...]
[ Read More ]During the morning of Saturday the 20-04-13 two men believed to be know to each other were involved in an altercation during which one of the men produced a gun and stole cash from the other in Bendigo. Later that morning at around 5.15 am police arrested a nineteen-year-old male and charged him with a [...]
[ Read More ]On the 15-04-13 at around 4.20 am a masked female assailant entered a Queen Street Convenience Store and told staff that she was armed with a weapon and staff then handed over money from the till and the assailant left. Melbourne Embona detectives are investigating the incident. Victims of armed robbery at work call 1800 000 [...]
[ Read More ]Where a person has been found guilty of an offence, you can seek a court order against the offender for compensation for any pain and suffering you have experienced as a result of the crime. The compensation order may also cover the loss, destruction or damage of your property. These orders are made by the [...]
[ Read More ]The VOCAT Application Process VOCAT is an administrative tribunal within the Court, constituted by members who are also magistrates of the Court. This means victims of crime gain acknowledgement of their experiences by a judicial officer in the criminal justice system, but in the more flexible, informal and intimate manner afforded by an administrative tribunal. [...]
[ Read More ]On the 17-04-13 just after 12.00 noon a male assailant threatened staff at the Annesley Street Pharmacy in Echuca with a shotgun demanding cash. A forty-one-year-old man was soon arrested to appear at the Bendigo Magistrates Court today. Victims of armed robbery for financial support and professional advice call Victims of Crime Compensation Victoria on [...]
[ Read More ]SupportLink provides a national referral and diversion gateway for police and other emergency services to participate in early intervention. The role of SupportLink is to: Establish and support formal referral partnerships with government and non government agencies for police to refer to. Provide a single referral and diversion gateway for operational police. Monitor and support [...]
[ Read More ]According to the Victims of Crime Commissioner the ACT Victims of Crime Scheme is an extremely complicated process and there are often extensive delays. Victims can miss out on compensation because their injuries are not considered to be ‘extremely serious’ according to John Hinchey. He also said that “there is a significant number of people [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 14-04-13 at around 3.00 am a nineteen-year-old female from Frankston was punched to the head in the middle of Chapel Street outside a South Yarra nightclub by a male assailant. The victim was treated at The Alfred Hospital with head injuries. Police are appealing for witnesses. Victims of assault call 1800 000 055 [...]
[ Read More ]New Crime Reporting Website: Help Solve My Crime. Go to: helpsolvemycrime.com.au Help Solve My Crime, unlike Crime Stoppers, is a real time crime reporting platform utilizing the online community. Help Solve My Crime assists victims of crime to solve, reduce and prevent crime in partnership with their community. Help Solve My Crime allows victims to immediately report a [...]
[ Read More ]The Attorney-General, Robert Clark, has move a Bill that will abolish suspended sentences, a move welcomed by victims of crime advocates. Suspended Sentences will first be abolished from the Supreme and County Courts in December 2013. From the start of September 2014 Magistrates will also lose the power to impose suspended sentences. ‘The new laws [...]
[ Read More ]In 2010- 2011 Victoria police were sent out to 25,000 more assaults, including physical assaults, brawls, domestic arguments and neighbourhood disputes, in Melbourne and Geelong by triple-0 dispatchers than were recorded in Victoria Police crime figures according to the Herald Sun. Since the 2009 findings that police had abused recording procedures to improve crime clearance [...]
[ Read More ]On the evening of the 17-04-13 a female aged in her twenties was shot in Avondale Heights. At around 9.30 pm the injured female and two males presented at a service station in Military Road in Avondale Heights and the police an ambulance were called. The injured female was then taken to the Royal Melbourne [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday 16-04-13 at around 3.00 pm a female was walking along Holehouse Street in Sunshine North pushing a pram containing a child when the male assailant ran up behind her and grabbed her and placed his hands down her top. The victim screamed and there was a struggle during which they both fell to [...]
[ Read More ]On the 08-04-13 at around 1.25 am a male assailant struck a Service Station Attendant working at the Bluff Road Service Station in Hampton with a meat cleaver. The assailant then stole cash from both cash registers before fleeing with an accomplice. The assailant was described as being of Islander appearance and aged in his [...]
[ Read More ]On the 28-02-13 at around 12.45 am two male assailants, dressed as police officers, kicked down the door of the Dianne Avenue house in Craigieburn which contained a female resident and her child. The assailants produced a badge and searched the house stealing the woman’s purse before leaving. The offenders were described as being of Middle [...]
[ Read More ]By Nicky Davis victim and leader of SNAP Australia (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). When the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse sat for the first time recently, there were smiles among those who had long campaigned for justice for Australia’s forgotten children. But for the survivors it was not [...]
[ Read More ]On the 10-04-13 a sixty-one-year-old male victim was approached by a male assailant outside the Bendigo Club demanding his wallet. The assailant told the victim he had a gun and physically assaulted the victim before stealing his wallet and fleeing. The victim was treated at the Bendigo Hospital for cuts and bruises. Bendigo detectives are [...]
[ Read More ]On the 06-04-13 four females all aged in their early twenties were walking through a laneway in Albury when two males ran towards them with one of the males indecently assaulting one of the females before fleeing. Albury police are appealing for witnesses. If you have been the victim of a physical or sexual assault [...]
[ Read More ]Discuss the impact of environmental factors, in particular crime and trauma, on the psychological development of an individual. Discuss the impact of ‘nature versus nurture’ in the context of crime, both the perspective of the victim and the criminal. By Arhita Del Fierro Year 11 Student Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Crime and trauma are major [...]
[ Read More ]On Friday the 5th April 2013 at around 2.00 am a male offender smashed a glass door with a metal pole to gain access to the Gaffney Street Pascoe Vale Service Station. The offender then threatened the Shop Assistant with a knife demanding cash before running from the scene with a small amount of money. [...]
[ Read More ]On the 07-04-13 at around 6.30 pm two male offenders entered a Milk Bar on Gleneagles Drive in Endeavour Hills with a baseball bat and an axe. One offender used the axe to access the cash register and take it while the second offender kept watch at the front of the Milk Bar and they [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday the 09-04-13 at around 11.40 am a masked assailant armed with a knife entered a licensed retail store on Clayton Road in Clayton demanding cash. The staff member handed over cash and the assailant then fled on foot. For victims of crime support and advice call 1800 000 055 or go to www.victimsofcrime.com.au [...]
[ Read More ]On Thursday the 04-04-13 at around 8.45 pm two assailants wearing balaclavas entered the Milk Bar on Nicholson Street in Meadow Heights threatening the twenty-two-year-old shop assistant with a knife. The female shop assistant then produced a baseball bat to defend herself at which time she was sprayed with capsicum spray by the assailant. The [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 06-04-13 at around 3.00 am two off duty police officers were assaulted by members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang at a hotel on Hare Street in Echuca. Both police officers were injured and one taken to hospital with facial injuries. Local detectives are investigating the incident. Also on the 06-04-13 two police officers [...]
[ Read More ]On the 02-04-13 at around 3.30 pm a male in his seventies was stabbed multiple times to his chest outside his home in Little Ferguson Street Williamstown. Police later arrested a male nearby who was known to the victim. The victim was described as being in a serious but stable condition as the result of [...]
[ Read More ]On the 23-03-13 at around 11.30 pm a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a home in Yarrinup Avenue Chadstone endangering the lives of the five occupants. A twenty-three-year-old male has since been charged with conduct endangering life. If you have been the victim of arson or other violent crime contact Victims of [...]
[ Read More ]On the 13-03-13 at around 8.15 am a male offender sexually assaulted two teenage girls in Rowville as they were walking to school. Knox detectives have since arrested a twenty-six-year-old male. If you have been the victim of a sexual assault call Victims of Crime Compensation & Counselling Services Victoria for immediate assistance on 1800 [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 08-04-13 just before midnight a twenty-six-year-old male was walking along the Burwood Highway in East Burwood when he was approached by four teenagers, two males and two females. The four teenagers demanded cash from the victim before stabbing him and then fleeing. The victim sustained a stab wound to his back and [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 7th April 2013 police discovered the body of a twenty-nine-year-old female in Doveton Street Ballarat. Homicide detectives have since charged a twenty-nine-year-old male with murder who was remanded in custody to appear at the Ballarat Magistrate’s Court. Victims of crime for financial support and professional advice call Victims of Crime Compensation Victoria [...]
[ Read More ]On the 18-02-13 at around 9.20 am a masked male assailant armed with a sword entered a Milk Bar in Hayfield Road Roxburgh Park and attempted to walk behind the counter. The staff member challenged the assailant who then fled. The offender was described as being aged in his late teenage years and of medium [...]
[ Read More ]On Sunday the 7th April at around 5.00 am police arrived at a home in St Albans to find a twenty-year-old female shot dead. Later that day, at around 8.30 pm, homicide detectives charged and arrested a twenty-two-year-old male who was taken to Sunshine police station. Police believe that the two were known to each [...]
[ Read More ]On the 01-04-13 a male offender dressed in a pin striped suit held up two shops in Carlton North and Brunswick East. At around 2.45 pm he entered a bottle shop on Nicholson Street in Carlton North and after a brief chat with shop assistants he indicated that he had a gun and stole cash [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 06-04-13 at around 8.30 pm police attended an address on Beleura Way in Seabrook where they located a deceased twenty-eight-year-old male from Altona Meadows. Homicide detectives have charged a thirty-two-year-old Seabrook man with murder and who was remanded in custody to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. Victims of crime for financial [...]
[ Read More ]On the 04-04-13 at around 9.00 am a twenty-five-year-old male was delivering promotional material to homes in Broadhurst Avenue in Reservoir when a motor vehicle pulled up beside him. After a brief conversation the male motorist demanded the victim’s wallet and mobile phone and fearing for his safety the victim gave the assailants these items [...]
[ Read More ]On Thursday the 04-04-13 at around 5.00 pm a twenty-five-year-old female was shopping at the Thompsons Road Supermarket in Cranbourne when she noticed a woman speaking to her three children. The mother soon after saw the female pick up her a four-year-old child in the toy aisle and when challenged the female put the child [...]
[ Read More ]The South Australian Government is considering doubling the maximum payout to victims of crime from $50,000 to $100,000. The compensation rate has not changed since 1990 and the South Australian Government has some $100 Million stored in its Victims of Crime Fund which is meant to be used to support victims of crime. Michael O’Connell, [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday the 02-04-13 at around 11.30 pm a male assailant armed with a knife entered the Chelsea Heights service station on Wells Road and demanded cash from the attendant. The attendant quickly activated the alarm and police arrived within minutes to arrest the twenty-eight-year-old assailant who was remanded in custody to appear at the [...]
[ Read More ]On Wednesday the 27th February 2013 at around midday an assailant punched the motor vehicle of the sixty-three-year-old victim in North Fitzroy. When the victim got out of his motor vehicle he was punched. The victim then followed the assailant and was again assaulted and then returned to his motor vehicle followed by two assailants. [...]
[ Read More ]Telstra is currently revising its policy on charging silent line fees for victims of domestic violence. Victims who have an Intervention Order recognising a security threat or are clients of community organisations providing services to victims of crime facing a security threat may be eligible. Victims of domestic violence or other crimes should call Telstra [...]
[ Read More ]Crime Prevention Grants of up to $10,000.00 are available to organizations such as councils and community groups to implement crime prevention projects. Over the past two years the state government had provided $1.8 million in funding to two hundred and seventy four crime prevention projects. For details go to: crimeprevention.vic.gov.au/safetygrants with applications closing on the 29-05-13. For victims of [...]
[ Read More ]On March the 21st at around 9.00 am a sixty-two-year-old female was punched to the face in St. Kilda by an unknown male who was trespassing on her property. The victim lost consciousness after hitting her head on the ground and was treated at the Alfred Hospital. The male assailant, believed to be aged around [...]
[ Read More ]Topic: “Are the current avenues for Victims of Crime in Victoria to access compensation effective? If so, how? If not, what are the alternative avenues for victims to seek compensation? Also address the impact of crimes on individuals and society and whether or not our sentences are effectively addressing the crimes.” Essay by Piotr S. [...]
[ Read More ]Hospital staff are constantly being subjected to criminal acts. Recently three women physically assaulted two security guards in the Royal Women’s Hospital, a nurse was struck to the head and another two nurses punched. Diana Asmar, Health Services Union Victorian Secretary, is calling for hospital security guards to be armed but the Australian Medical Association and [...]
[ Read More ]On Saturday the 30-03-13 at around 3.00 am a nineteen-year-old male was with a friend outside a service station in Sebastopol when he became involved in an argument with another two men. The nineteen-year-old victim was subsequently seriously assaulted and initially treated at the Ballarat Base Hospital and then airlifted to The Alfred Hospital with [...]
[ Read More ]On Tuesday 26 March 2013 around 8.00 am a fifty-three-year-old woman was walking through a park on DeChene Parade in Coburg when she was approached by a male asking for directions. The male then indecently assaulted her before fleeing. The assailant was described as being of Indian appearance and aged in his mid twenties. Fawkner [...]
[ Read More ]On Monday the 25th March 2013 at around 2.40 pm a female was walking her dog in Barwon Heads when a male assailant pushed her from behind causing her to fall to the ground. The male assailant then pulled his pants down and exposed himself to her before fleeing. Detectives from Geelong are investigating the [...]
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