Assaults in the Goulburn Valley and Wodonga regions have increased last year by more than 15% according to 2013 Victoria Police figures. Increases in the Goulburn Valley were driven mainly by family violence, with Wangaratta also recording a jump in domestic assaults. According to Tony Davis, Wodonga based Police Inspector, more than 30% of those…
DetailsThe Liberal Party in South Australia has promised a twelve million dollar boost to victims’ of crime services if elected. These services include: Increasing the maximum payments under the Victims of Crime Compensation scheme to $100,000.00. Increasing the maximum payable for grief to $20,000.00 and funeral expenses to $14,000.00. Increasing the amount paid to lawyers working…
DetailsOn the 22-02-14 at around 10.00 pm a fourteen-year-old boy was assaulted on Clarendon Street in Cranbourne by a group of males. The teenage victim suffered serious lacerations to his torso and was treated at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Police are appealing for any witnesses to the stabbing to come forward. Victims of crime for support…
DetailsOn Saturday the 22-02-24 at around 1.15 am residents of a home in Murray Street St Albans responded to a knock on the front door resulting in two males rushing into the home and assaulting the forty-one-year-old and forty-three-year-old male occupants. One of the victims suffered head injuries and was treated at the Footscray Hospital…
DetailsFunding to the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness, which is often used to find housing for victims of domestic violence, expires on the 30-06-14. Fiona McCormack, chief executive of Domestic Violence Victoria, said the majority of family violence services were funded through the housing and homelessness budgets. She said that “family violence in Victoria accounts…
DetailsArmed Robbery – Bendigo On the 12-02-14 just after 10.00 pm a male entered the Nando’s fast-food outlet in the Bendigo city centre and produced a firearm. Staff reported that the offender then stole money before running out of the store and towards Rosalind Park. Aggravated Burglary – Bendigo On Saturday the 15-02-14 two male…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 19-02-14 the bodies of an elderly couple were found stabbed to death in their Murrumbeena home. Police indicated that there were no obvious signs of a forced entry into their home and no evidence that the couple had assaulted each other. Police said that they are searching for a motive and have…
DetailsOn the 19-02-14 at around 8.30 am a forty-three-year-old doctor was stabbed multiple times in the foyer of the Western Hospital. A forty-eight-year-old man from Sunshine was arrested at the scene and charged and remanded in custody. The doctor was treated at the Western hospital in a serious but stable condition. On the 24-01-14 at…
DetailsAt around 5.15 am on the 12th February 2014 a nineteen-year-old female was walking towards the Sandown Park Railway Station in Noble Park when a motor vehicle containing two males pulled up in front of her. The male passenger alighted from the motor vehicle and began running towards her and threatening her. The teenage female…
DetailsOn the 03-02-14 at around 12.30 am two campers were awoken by three offenders at a camping ground near Shepparton. The offenders were armed with a hatchet and a firearm and demanded money before fleeing with the victim’s iphone in a motor vehicle. The victims are a twenty-three-year-old Italian female and a twenty-one-year-old English male.…
DetailsAggravated Burglary – Meadow Heights On Monday the 03-02-14 at around 2.00 am a male offender gained entry into a home on Hamlyn Court in Meadow Heights and was confronted by the forty-year-old female resident. A n altercation occurred during which the female was stabbed. The female victim was treated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.…
DetailsStabbing – Balaclava On Saturday the 01-02-14 at around 7.50 pm a forty-six-year-old male was struck to the head with a bottle outside a licensed premises on Carlisle Street in Balaclava following an argument. The victim managed to walk away only to be stabbed a short time later in a nearby supermarket car park. The…
DetailsSexual Assault – Gippsland On Monday the 27the January 2014 at around 9.20 pm a sixteen-year-old girl was followed from the Sale Train Station by an unknown male. The male then approached the teenager and engaged her in a brief conversation before grabbing and indecently assaulting her in a supermarket car park. The young female…
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