On the 12-05-13 at around 12.45 am a twenty-two-year-old male was pursued by an unknown male offender on a bike from the car park of the Mentone Hotel. The offender soon caught up to the victim threatening him with physical violence and demanding his mobile phone. The victim handed over his phone and the assailant…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 21st May 2013 at around 1.15 pm a forty-eight-year-old man was involved in an argument with two men and a woman at the Footscray Railway Station. One of the men allegedly punched the elderly man to the face and he then stabbed one of the men to the shoulder. The two men…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 21-05-13 at around 10.00 pm police arrived at a home in Reservoir to find that a thirty-year-old male had been stabbed to his arm. The victim, believed to be the Essendon AFL footballer Nathan Lovett-Murray, was transported to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Police have since arrested two males, a twenty-two-year-old and a seventeen-year-old.…
DetailsOn the 22-05-13 at around 3.00 pm a male offender entered a home on Georgette Crescent in Endeavour Hills and physically assaulted the seventy-three-year-old female resident with a sharp weapon. The elderly female victim sustained serious injuries to her neck and was transported to hospital for treatment. Casey CIU detectives are investigating the incident. If…
DetailsOn the 05-05-13 at around 9.50 pm a pizza delivery driver was ambushed and robbed while delivering a pizza to a home on Toogoolawah Drive in Melton. The three assailants were waiting in an adjacent vacant block when the driver arrived and the assailants then surrounded him and threatened him with a silver handgun before…
DetailsOn the 04-05-13 at around 4.45 am two men entered a home on Piccolotto Drive in Melton through an unlocked back door. The assailants were disturbed by the homeowner’s dog and fled on foot with a hand bag, bum bag and other stolen items. Melton police are appealing for witnesses. Victims of aggravated burglary call…
DetailsOn Sunday the 21-04-13 at around 4.30 am a thirty-year-old female was asleep at the Melton Motor Inn when the male offender broke into her room and raped her. The offender is described as being aged from his late twenties to his mid thirties with straight hair and medium build and with an olive complexion.…
DetailsOn Friday the 10-05-13 at around 8.15 pm a male assailant armed with a shotgun robbed the Foodworks Supermarket at the Harrington Square Shopping Centre. Police indicated that more than twenty offences had been reported at the Harrington Square Shopping Centre over the past twelve months, including armed robberies and physical assaults. In July last…
DetailsOn the 07-05-13 at around 6.40 am a man was standing outside a St Kilda Tattoo Shop when he was approached by two males. The males demanded money and then punched the victim to the face stealing his wallet before fleeing in a red utility motor vehicle. Police are appealing or any witnesses. Victims of…
DetailsSexual abuse is a horrendous crime and it is really a tough debate as to determine the exact extent of the problem. Sexual abuse can happen to people of all age and any gender but as per studies, child sexual abuse is the most common and almost epidemic. Most people assume sexual abuse to be…
DetailsOf the many ills plaguing our society today one very persistent and harrowing ill is Domestic Violence. Defined as a form of physical abuse on an individual by a family member domestic violence can occur in varied relationships ranging from a marriage to between siblings to between a parent and child and so on. Violence…
DetailsOn Sunday the 19-05-13 at around 2.00 pm a twenty-seven-year-old legally blind female was walking with her guide dog along Parkmore Road in Keysborough when a motor vehicle pulled up beside her and a male assailant alighted and pulled her handbag off her shoulder before fleeing back into the back seat of the motor vehicle…
DetailsOn Sunday the 19-05-13 at around 6.30 am a twenty-four-year-old female was walking through the Melbourne CBD when she was approached by an unknown male who proceeded to sexually assault her before fleeing. The female victim was treated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The assailant is described as being of Mediterranean appearanceand aged twenty-six to…
DetailsHighlights: Robbery decreased by 7% from 14,582 in 2009–10 to 13,617 in 2010–11 3% decrease in victims of sexual assault with 17,238 victims, 519 fewer victims than the previous year. In 2010 – 11 there were 67 more recorded victims of kidnapping and abduction. In 2010 – 11 there were 14 more recorded victims of…
DetailsOn Saturday the 11th May 2013 at around 12.30 am a male left a licensed premise on Moorabool Street in Geelong and was standing near the road when a white Holden Commodore sedan containing four or five male occupants drove past and beeped the horn. The vehicle soon pulled over next to the male and…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 14th May 2013 at around 7.00 pm a twenty-year-old female was placing groceries she had just purchased from the Somerville Road Supermarket in Hampton Park in her motor vehicle when she was approached by an unknown male. The male assailant grabbed the female victim around her waist and attempted to force her…
DetailsOn the 14-05-13 a fifty-year-old male was attacked with a sharp weapon at a vineyard pickers’ hut in Cardross Victoria. The victim sustained serious injuries including defensive wounds. Police indicated that Cardross is a small community and would like to talk with anyone who knows anything about the incident. Victims of physical assault call 1800…
DetailsOn Sunday the 5th May 2013 a fifty-nine-year-old man was leaving a supermarket in Robinvale when he was set upon by four male assailants and physically assaulted with a spanner in the supermarket car park before having cash stolen. The victim suffered minor injuries and was treated at the Robinvale District Hospital. Police are appealing…
DetailsThe Crime Victims Support Association in a non profit Charitable Association and is again running its annual Great Community Raffle and is calling for individuals to be involved to buy tickets as well as to help sell tickets. Tickets are $2.00 each and are tax deductible. The main prize is a new Nissan Pulsar valued at…
DetailsOn the 14-05-13 at around 10.50 am an armed male offender entered a home on Shetland Way in Sunbury and confronted the female occupant and her five-year-old son who had just returned come from the shops. The offender was armed with a gun and demanded money from the female victim and fled in an old…
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