On Sunday the 30-09-12 at around midday thousands of people marched along Sydney road from Coburg to Brunswick to honour Jill Meagher’s life. The march stopped for a minute’s silence in a park near the corner of Sydney Road and Brunswick Road. John Kavanagh, Moreland Mayor, said that the march was organized by the community…
DetailsOn Friday the 21-09-12 at around 5.30 pm a sixteen year old girl was standing on a Springvale South corner when two male assailants of Islander appearance and aged around eighteen years approached her and pushed her to the ground demanding her handbag. The assailants then kicked the female victim before stealing her mobile phone…
DetailsSocial Media and CCTV have both shown to have been invaluable in assisting police investigations and in the arrest of Jill Meagher’s murderer. Police have warned, though, that internet users risk jeopardising the trial of the forty-one-year-old man, Adrian Ernest Bayley, charged with the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, urging restraint on social media…
DetailsJon Faine this week said ‘…Jill Meagher’s death must not come to define us. That’s not what it’s like to live in the Melbourne that we know. This is an exceptionally rare event. Its randomness is part of what is so incomprehensible about it” Jon please let me quote you the Victorian Crime Rates recorded…
DetailsThe review by Ted Baillieu, The Victorian Premier, into the state’s CCTV network is long overdue. Victim Support Organizations have for many years been lobbying for more CCTV, particularly in high public areas, with little response to date. According to police the CCTV footage provided by an independent bridal shop capturing Jill’s movements along Sydney…
DetailsOn Friday the 21-09-10 at around 10.10 pm three males, aged forty, sixty-seven and eight five years were travelling by train from Richmond to Pakenham after being at a rugby league game together. The train arrived at Pakenham Railway Station at around 11.10 pm at which time the three men became involved in an altercation…
DetailsOn the 24-09-12 a sixty year old male was sleeping on his couch when he was awoken by noise and then confronted an assailant carrying a crow bar in his hallway, who had entered his home via the garage. A scuffle ensued between the sixty year old victim and the assailant during which the victim…
Details“Jill Meagher may we remember her another innocent victim of a repeat rapist if reports on the radio are correct. I think the reclaim the night marches should be demanding tougher sentences as repeat serious offenders such as rapists are let out time and time again until they kill someone. If a person rapes, if…
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