On Sunday the 10th February 2013 there were three separate incidents in Coburg where a handgun was used to steal mobile phones. The first two incidents occurred in the morning in Reynard Street Coburg and the other in Station Street Coburg where the victims were approached and threatened with the handgun. The third incident occurred…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 13-02-13 an aggravated burglary took place at a Phillips Street apartment in Coburg while both occupants were asleep. The offender/s entered through a window and stole a laptop computer. The occupants did not realized they had been burgled until the following morning. If you have been the victim of an aggravated burglary…
DetailsOn Friday the 15-02-13 at around 4.00 pm a seventeen-year-old female was walking next to Pinehills Drive in Greensborough when a male assailant grabbed her from the behind. The teenage girl managed to struggle free and the assailant fled. Diamond Creek SOCIT detectives are investigating the incident and are appealing for witnesses. If you have…
DetailsOn Friday the 15-02-13 at around 9.40 pm a forty-three-year-old male victim was walking his two dogs on Hodgins Road in Hastings when he became involved in an altercation with two men and a female on mini bikes. The victim was physically assaulted with a fence post and sustained serious injuries and was treated at…
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…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 12-02-13 at around 8.00 pm a forty-year-old female was in the laundry of her unit complex when she was approached by an unknown male aged in his twenties. The male offender grabbed the female from behind and punched her to the face and sexually assaulted her. Moorabbin SOCIT police are investigating the…
DetailsOn the 12-02-13 at around 1.40 pm a twenty-eight-year-old male victim, who was pushing his bike along a footpath in St. Albans, became involved in an altercation with a male aged in his late forties and a female. The male subsequently allegedly stabbed the victim with a knife to his upper body. The victim was…
DetailsOn Monday the 11-02-13 just after 7.00 pm four young girls, all aged younger than twelve years, were playing in Gilmour Park in Coburg when they noticed that they were being watched by an adult male. The girls then left the park and the male, who was driving a red motor vehicle, followed them opening…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 12th February 2013 at around 9.15 pm a fifteen-year-old girl was walking home from work along Barries Road in Melton when she was followed by two men in a late-model white station wagon. One of the men then alighted from the motor vehicle and followed the teenage girl into Blackwood Reserve where…
DetailsOn Friday the 8th February 2013 a twenty-one-year-old woman sustained lacerations to her arm and face following a domestic dispute with a twenty-eight-year-old man in Camperdown. Police have charged the offender with recklessly causing serious injury and is to appear at the Warrnambool Magistrates Court. If you have been the victim of domestic violence or…
DetailsA Flinders University pilot survey of 58 clients at the Victim Support Service last year found almost half – 26 victims – had increased self-medication. This included drugs prescribed by a psychiatrist or medical professional, as well as alcohol, illicit drugs and medication obtained without a prescription. Researchers now want funding to expand the study…
DetailsOn the 11-02-13 at around 8.40 pm paramedics were treating a twenty-nine-year-old male on the side of the Maroondah Highway in Mooroolbark when he struck one of the paramedics to the face and fled. The offender also struggled with police and managed to break free and was then struck by a motor vehicle and sustained…
DetailsOn the 07-02-13 at around 9.30 pm two armed assailants entered a home in Heidelberg Heights and assaulted a seventy-eight-year-old woman and her thirty-six-year-old son with a wooden bat and a metal bar. The victims were treated at the Austin Hospital. The matter is being investigated by the Heidelberg police. If you have been the…
DetailsOn the 03-02-13 at around 7.00 pm a Protective Services Officer (PSO) was physically assaulted at the Coburg Railway Station while attempting to arrest the twenty-eight-year-old male offender. The Protective Services Officer sustained minor injuries.
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On Saturday the 2nd February 2013 two men physically assaulted a taxi driver, punching him to the head, in Dandenong after failing to pay the far. The assault was witnessed by a number of other taxi drivers who came to the victim’s aid. The two offenders, aged twenty and twenty-three years, were charged by police.…
DetailsOn the 02-02-13 at around 3.00 pm a woman was followed by a male after boarding a bus at the Preston Market. The male followed her off public transport and as she was walking home through Hudson Reserve physically assaulted her and stole her mobile phone before running off. If you have been the victim…
DetailsFive service stations have been robbed in Sunbury, Woodend and Sydenham over the past two weeks with the male offender each time armed with a knife and escaping with cash. Fawkner detectives believe the same offender may be responsible for all five robberies listed below: On the 27-01-13 at around 1.00 am the service station…
DetailsFarrah Tomazin; The Age Newspaper: 10-02-13 PARENTS are increasingly being attacked by their own children, with some cases so vicious the victims end up in hospital or take out restraining orders to protect themselves. Figures show Victoria Police were called to 4017 family violence incidents over the past 12 months where an adolescent was the…
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 Thursday the 07-02-13 at around 2.30 pm a nineteen-year-old female entered public toilets in Mildura where she was confronted by a male who sexually assaulted her before fleeing. Mildura SOCIT detectives are calling for witnesses. If you have been the victim of a physical or sexual abuse or other serious crime contact Victims of…
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