On the 20-02-18 police charged a twenty-four-year-old male offender with two armed robberies which had occurred earlier that month on Centre Road in Bentleigh East. On the 16-02-18 an armed robbery of taxi driver and on the 07-02-18 an armed robbery at service station. The offender was charged with two counts of armed robbery and…
DetailsOn 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…
DetailsOn Saturday 16-02-13 a taxi was struck by a rock while travelling along the Princes Highway in Corio injuring the twenty-two-year-old front seat passenger. The victim sustained a laceration to his left check amongst other facial injuries and was treated in hospital. Police believe that several teenagers may have been responsible for the random attack…
DetailsNick Clarke – victim of crime Published in The Age: February 10, 2013. IN February 2009, I got gang-bashed. I’m writing this because the system of victim compensation is profoundly inadequate and needs addressing, but for the purpose of context, here’s what happened. It was a muggy summer’s night, I was 22 and had been…
DetailsOn the 10-12-12 at around 8.10 am an eleven year old girl was assaulted and grabbed the arm by a male in Hastings before she managed to break free and run away. Today detectives from the Frankston Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team arrested a thirty-one-year-old male in relation to the assault. For victims…
DetailsOn Sunday the 02-12-12 at around 12.30 am a forty-year-old man was physically assaulted while asleep on his couch in Noble Park. The victim sustained laceration to his face. Earlier that evening a BBQ was hosted with a number of people attending and the police wish to speak with any witnesses. If you have been…
DetailsOn Sunday the 18-11-12 at around 1.10 am two women caught a taxi in Donvale. A short time later the two female passengers were involved in a verbal argument with the taxi driver and he soon stopped the taxi. As the females were exiting the taxi the driver allegedly drove off dragging one of them,…
DetailsWritten by Ms L.A. I have been abused all my life but have never resorted to drugs or alcohol or any other addiction as sooner or later, you have to face your issues. What I have learnt from my experiences, it is not the event/s that happen in your life but how you deal with…
DetailsOn Friday the 26-10-12 at around 7.00 am a twenty-two-year-old male victim was driving his Mazda dual cab utility along Pascoe Vale Road when the male driver of a blue mid-eighties Nissan Skyline behind him signalled for him to pull over. The male victim refused to pull over resulting in his vehicle being rammed by…
DetailsOn Monday the 22-10-12 at around 11.00 pm an argument broke out between two men at the Werribee Plaza Tavern in Hoppers Crossing. One of the males then left and soon returned with a gun and an accomplice. The two assailants waited outside for the twenty-six-year-old male to leave the tavern and then attacked him…
DetailsOn the 12-10-12 at around 10.00 pm a security guard was slashed to his face by a patron at a Caulfield South adult night club. The assailant fled before the police arrived. On the 12-10-12 at around 6.45 pm a cyclist was slashed with a knife while riding near the Mentone Railway Station. The cyclist…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 16-10-12 at around 10.30 pm three masked male assailants armed with a gun forced there was into the Wyndham Vale home and assaulted the thirty-one-year-old female occupant, striking her to the head and body, before stealing her Holden Commodore motor vehicle. Two other females were present at the time. The female victim…
DetailsOn the 15-10-12 at around 5.45 pm three male assailants approached the twenty-three-year-old male victim in the street and proceeded to assault him with a cricket bat. The victim suffered serious facial fractures and was taken to the Austin Hospital. A green Holden Commodore motor vehicle was seen in the area at the time according…
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…
DetailsOn the 20-08-12 at around 6.00 pm a teenage boy was sitting on the inbound platform of the Ascot Vale Railway Station when he was robbed at knife point. The victim said that he was approached by an unknown male aged in his late twenties who threatened to stab him, and pressed the weapon against…
DetailsOn Thursday the 20-09-12 just after midnight a twenty-four-year-old was sitting in his parked motor vehicle when two armed assailants entered his vehicle and threatened him with a gun and a knife. The assailants forced the victim drive to an address in Kangaroo Flat when he attempted to unsuccessfully escape. Police shortly afterwards arrested two…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 11-09-12 at around 9.45 pm a fight broke out between two parties on a train travelling on the Belgrave line. The fight continued to the Bayswater Train Station during which a twenty-two-year-old male victim was stabbed multiple times to his abdomen. The victim was taked to hospital with non life threatening injuries.…
DetailsOn Monday the 13-09-12 at around midday a woman aged in her seventies was stabbed in the driveway of her Watsonia home. The elderly victim was taken by air ambulance to the Alfred Hospital in a serious condition. Police soon arrested a thirty-one-year-old male hiding in the backyard of a nearby house. For financial support…
DetailsOn Thursday the 16-08-12 at around 10.30 pm the male victim, aged in his early twenties, walked from the Cheltenham Railway Station along Charman Road carrying his laptop bag when he was set upon by four males. The victim managed to out run the assailants. Police patrolling the area saw the incident and arrested four…
DetailsOn the 24-08-12 a female motorist was approached by two female assailants, shortly after parking her motor vehicle in a Heidelberg car park, who proceeded to physically assault her before stealing her motor vehicle. The victim sustained minor injuries and the assailants were described as wearing hoodies and tracksuits. Victims of crime – support and…
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