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…
DetailsAll Australians going out tonight should be concerned in the light of Ms Meagher tragic murder. For journalists and others to suggest that crime statistics do not support people’s fears, citing that the country’s homicide rate is at historical lows, is nonsense. I suggest that these individual’s should be citing these figures to the family…
DetailsThe recent tragic murder of Jill Meagher is a powerful wake-up call for all Australians that we all need to be very concerned about our safety and violent behave in our community and we should all be demanding that state governments do far more to address the issue. For many years the statistics about crime…
DetailsRobert Doyle, Melbourne Lord Mayor, said that he would be very happy to look at putting more CCTV (closed circuit television) installed and called CCTV one of the “great weapons for city safety”. Melbourne City Council currently has fifty-three fixed cameras and two mobile camera vans which are monitored constantly at a central security hub.…
DetailsBernard Hogan-Howe, Scotland Yard Chief, predicted that crime in London would “fall sharply” in the next two or three years. Initiatives include: Recruit 1,200 extra constables for front line policing. Target gangs, as gangs account for 50% cent of shootings, 25% of serious violence and 15% of rape with 1,500 suspected gang member arrests to…
DetailsA British MP, Christine Gwyther, running for the position of Police and Crime Commissioner, said that says she wants to see support for victims of crime at the heart of the criminal justice system. There was a worrying trend that people’s confidence in the police went down, not up, after becoming a victim of crime…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 25-09-12 two male assailants wearing balaclavas and carrying machetes entered the East Bentleigh Supermarket at around 7.15 pm. The assailants threatened staff with the weapons forcing them to hand over cash and cigarettes before fleeing and running through the car park. If you have been the victim of an armed robbery or…
DetailsFurther financial support to victims of violent crimes was pledged this month, September 2012, by China to help stem the trauma resulting from such criminal offences. Each year in China there are some three million victims of crimes which may now be able to benefit from the program. The program targets those who have been seriously injured or the relatives of those killed in violent crimes. It is recognized that those who commit violent crimes do not have the means to compensate the victims or their families who often face serious economic difficulties after losing a bread winner due to physical and/or psychological injury. Financial awards made to victims are usually equivalent to thirty-six-months their average salary which comes from government financial departments. We…
DetailsCranbourne Secondary College has developed a Proactive and Preventative Program to tackle violence and anti-social behaviour. The program involves regular interactive classes exposing students to the consequences of violence and covering issues students may come into contact with and the aim being to present issues in a positive manner. Regular visits to the school by…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 25-09-12 at around 12.30 am witnesses heard a female’s calls for help and quickly located a seriously injured woman in her fifties amongst think bushes beside a footpath in Hastings. The females suffered serious injuries to the back of her head and was taken to the Monash Medical Centre for treatment. For victims…
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…
DetailsAttorney-General, Greg Smith, of the NSW government has proposal legislation to keep violent prisoners who show no signs of rehabilitation in jail beyond their imposed sentence. He said that the changes were about protecting the community from the ”worst of the worst”. Howard Brown, spokesman for the Victims of Crime Assistance League, praised the legislation…
DetailsJohn Elliott, a candidate for the City of Melbourne, has proposed the introduction of a 1.00 am common closure for Melbourne Nightclubs to curb violence. Others believe that the current problems associated with street violence will be exacerbated by such a measure and which have been previously trialled in Australia with little success. On a Friday…
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