July 22, 2013 | Victims of Crime

Murder – St. Kilda

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On Sunday the 21-07-13 at around 3.00 pm police arrived at Greeves Street in St Kilda to find a forty-year-old female’s body in a white Ford Econovan. Police believe that the victim was a local sex worker who had been living in the van and that she had been killed inside her van and sustained upper…

July 22, 2013

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Aggravated Burglary – South Melbourne

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On Friday the 19-07-13 at around 4.00 am a female in her twenties awoke to find a male assailant in her bedroom of her Park Street home in South Melbourne searching through her belongings. The woman confronted the male and after a brief struggle he fled with her bag and mobile. Police are appealing for…

July 22, 2013

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Milk Bar Robbery – Fawkner

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On Saturday the 13-07-13 at around 8.00 am a male assailant wearing a black balaclava entered the Anderson Road Milk Bar in Fawkner and ran behind the counter threatening the shop assistant with a knife demanding money and then fled on foot with a small amount of cash. The assailant was described as being of…

July 22, 2013

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Parole Board of Victoria

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Noel McNamara, President of the Crime Victims Support Association, has urged the Victorian government to make the parole board more transparent. Steve Medcraft, President of People Against Lenient Sentencing, also hopes that the parole board decides to make its reasons for decisions public so that the community can better understand how risk assessments are being…

July 22, 2013

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Domestic Violence – Take a Stand

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Denis Napthine, Victoria Premier, Robert Doyle, Melbourne Lord Major, Ken Lay, Police Chief Commissioner & Andrew Demetriou, AFL CEO, are all promoting a new campaign to reduce domestic violence called Take a Stand asking perpetrators to take responsibility for their actions and end family violence. Last year 50,382 family violence calls were made to police.…

July 22, 2013

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