On Wednesday 10 July 2013 just after 6.40 pm a male assailant entered a convenience store in William Street in the Melbourne CBD and asked the female shop assistant to come to the rear of the store regarding a store product and then followed her back behind the shop counter where he threatened her with a…
DetailsOn Sunday the 28-07-13 at around 3.00 am a brawl erupted outside a function centre in Albion involving in excess of eighty people. One male was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition and two others were taken to the Sunshine Hospital. A twenty-seven-year-old male has since been arrested. Victims of physical…
DetailsOn Friday the 26-07-13 at around 4.00 am two assailants wearing balaclavas entered the Newsagency on Curtin Street in Bell Park and demanded cash and cigarettes from the shop attendant. The two assailants stole the till containing cash and fled in a small red motor vehicle. Geelong detectives are investigating the robbery. If you have been…
DetailsBeyondblue has recently received a grant to undertake a project under the direction of Associate Professor Tricia Nagel at the Menzies School of Health Research. The project was granted under the award of Beyondblue National Priority Driven Research Program. The grant amount was roughly $80,000 in order to assist in the costs associated with undertaking…
DetailsThe Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and their Children recently launched in Melbourne will support early intervention programs, create campaigns on social media and back research on the best ways of reducing family and domestic violence. Natasha Stott Despoja, former Australian Democrats leader, will head the foundation. Ms Stott Despoja said she will be…
DetailsOn the 23-07-13 at around 5.00 am two armed assailants wearing balaclavas waited for the KFC store on Sturt Street in Ballarat to be opened and then forced a staff person to give them access to the restaurant where the assailants stole money from the safe. The assailants then fled the scene with the staff…
DetailsOn the evening of Saturday the 20-07-13 a twenty-year-old male from the Puckapunyal Army Base was the victim of an assault at a Seymour nightclub. The victim sustained a fractured eye socket, a fractured jaw and a fractured skull. Police would like to talk with a thirty-year-old male over the physical assault and are appealing…
DetailsOn Sunday the 21-07-13 at around 7.20 pm a male assailant entered the Moonee Ponds Gaming Venue on Mount Alexander Road and handed the Cashier a note demanding money and indicating that he was armed. The Cashier alerted a work colleague and the assailant snatched back the note and fled. Later that same night, at…
DetailsOn the 17-07-13 at around 6.30 am two men were involved in an altercation on the corner of Albion Street and Brighton Road in Balaclava when one male produced a box cutter and slashed the throat of the other male. The victim of the vicious assault was treated at The Alfred Hospital in St Kilda.…
DetailsOn Sunday the 21-07-13 at around 3.00 pm police arrived at Greeves Street in St Kilda to find a forty-year-old female’s body in a white Ford Econovan. Police believe that the victim was a local sex worker who had been living in the van and that she had been killed inside her van and sustained upper…
DetailsOn Friday the 19-07-13 at around 4.00 am a female in her twenties awoke to find a male assailant in her bedroom of her Park Street home in South Melbourne searching through her belongings. The woman confronted the male and after a brief struggle he fled with her bag and mobile. Police are appealing for…
DetailsOn Saturday the 13-07-13 at around 8.00 am a male assailant wearing a black balaclava entered the Anderson Road Milk Bar in Fawkner and ran behind the counter threatening the shop assistant with a knife demanding money and then fled on foot with a small amount of cash. The assailant was described as being of…
DetailsNoel McNamara, President of the Crime Victims Support Association, has urged the Victorian government to make the parole board more transparent. Steve Medcraft, President of People Against Lenient Sentencing, also hopes that the parole board decides to make its reasons for decisions public so that the community can better understand how risk assessments are being…
DetailsDenis Napthine, Victoria Premier, Robert Doyle, Melbourne Lord Major, Ken Lay, Police Chief Commissioner & Andrew Demetriou, AFL CEO, are all promoting a new campaign to reduce domestic violence called Take a Stand asking perpetrators to take responsibility for their actions and end family violence. Last year 50,382 family violence calls were made to police.…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 17-07-13 at around 2.00 am a thirty-three-year-old woman and her seventeen-year-old son were asleep in their Melview Drive home in Springvale when the female got up to go to the bathroom and was confronted by a male in the hallway of her home. The male assailant, describe as being in his mid…
DetailsPolice in WA recently uploaded a holiday photo located on a stolen ipad on Facebook resulting in the post receiving some 50,000 hits with the owners of the ipad being identified. The ipad was stolen some eight months earlier and the victims were very surprised and very pleased when informed that it had been located…
DetailsOn the 15-07-13 just before 10.00 pm residents on Massey Avenue in Reservoir called police after hearing disturbing noises. Police soon arrived to find the body of a middle aged woman in the backyard of her property who had been killed. Police are appealing for anyone who saw or heard anything around that time to…
DetailsOn Sunday the 14-07-13 a male was driving along Kulkyne Way when he noticed a motor vehicle containing a group of men drift across the road and he flashed his lights. The group of males then intercepted and other driver and seriously physically assaulted him causing bleeding on to his brain Victims of road rage…
DetailsOn Saturday the 13-07-13 police were called to a party attended by some one hundred teenagers that had spiralled out of control. Police were required to intervene and to break up fights and stop disorderly behaviour. Police said that they were disgusted by the behaviour of the teenagers who did not have adequate parental supervision.…
DetailsOn the 16-07-13 at around 1.45 am a resident discovered two males in the garage of his Cranbourne home attempting to steal property. The victim confronted one assailant only to be struck to the side of his head by the other assailant causing him to fall to the ground where the offenders stole the victim’s wallet…
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