The Australian Crime Victimisation Survey 2010-11 estimated that 54,900 Australians aged eighteen years and over were the victims of at least one sexual assault in the previous twelve months. Statistics from Recorded Crime – Victims, Australia, 2011, showed that 85% of victims who reported sexual assault to police were female and that 50% of these…
DetailsOn the 24-11-12 at around 11.40 pm a male was walking from the Watergardens Train Station to his home when he was physically assaulted and robbed by three teenage males. The victim was kicked to the face and head resulting in a fractured nose and bruising to his face and he was treated in hospital.…
DetailsOn the 26-11-12 at around 3.30 pm a sixteen-year-old female was crossing a footbridge over the Nepean Highway in Gardenvale when a male assailant approached her from behind and grabbed her around the waist. The assailant then attempted to drag the teenage victim into bushes but she managed to fight the assailant off and flee.…
DetailsIn 2011 Victoria Legal Aid posted a $3.1 million deficit which is expected to blow out by $10 million this year. Michael Holcroft, the president of the Law Institute of Victoria, said that the cost blowout is the result of increasing demands for services which hasn’t been met by government funding. Mr Holcroft said that…
DetailsOn Saturday the 01-12-12 a twenty-one-year-old male was involved in an altercation with two other males aged in their early twenties in Mildura. The victim sustained serious head injuries and was air lifted to hospital and the two assailants have been arrested. If you have been the victim of a physical assault call Victims of…
DetailsOn the morning of Saturday the 01-12-12 a male and a female armed with a shotgun and a knife, respectively, and with their faces covered, robbed the United Petrol Station in Sale. The assailants stole cash before fleeing in a red sedan motor vehicle. If you have been the victim of an armed robbery while…
DetailsA recent coronial report into family violence deaths released by State Coroner, Jennifer Coate, revealed that there were some 545 homicides among family members and intimate partners between 2000 and 2010, with 75% of deaths in metropolitan areas and 25% from regional Victoria. The Office of Public Prosecutions, in a separate domestic violence report, indicated…
DetailsOn the 25-11-12 at around 3.00 am a twenty-one-year-old female was walking along Swanston Street in Parkville when she was approached by an unknown male of Asian appearance. The male assailant then forced her onto the Melbourne University grounds and sexually assaulted her before fleeing. If you have been the victim of a sexual or…
DetailsHome in Bellfield, Heidelberg Heights and Eaglemont have been recently robbed while the owners were at home, either in the front or backyard gardening. On the 27-11-12 at around 2.30 pm a home in Mount Street Eaglemont was robbed, on the 21-11-12 at around midday a home in Clinton Street Heidelberg Heights and on the…
DetailsOn Friday the 30-11-12 at around 8.30 am a ten-year-old girl was riding her scooter to school in Pakenham when she was approached by a male aged in his late twenties. The male encouraged her towards his red station wagon and then grabbed her by her arms and placed her in the motor vehicle. The young…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 28-11-12 at around 6.00 am an eighty-two-year-old male victim was attacked in his own home in Malvern. The victim went downstairs to investigate a noise when he was confronted by the assailant who stabbed him to the face with a screw driver. The assailant then put a backpack over the victims head…
DetailsOn Saturday the 24-11-12 three masked assailants, armed with a baseball bat, a knife and a machete, threatened the Shop Assistant at the Better Choice Service Station in Werribee before stealing cash and cigarettes. If you have been the victim of an armed robbery while at work contact Victims of Crime for financial assistance on…
DetailsOn Thursday the 29-11-12 at around 4.30 am a twenty-five-year-old male victim was walking along David Avenue in Cranbourne when he was approached by the male assailant who proceeded to physically assault the victim and stab him to his leg before fleeing with the victim’s mobile phone and cash. The assailant was described as being…
DetailsOn the 18-11-12 at around 5.45 am a twenty-four-year-old female was attempting to flag down a taxi along Auburn Road in Hawthorn when a male, stating he was a security officer, stopped and gave her a lift. The male then drove for some forty minutes before parking in a driveway and sexually assaulting the victim.…
DetailsOn Monday the 26-11-12 at around 7.00 pm a thirty-three-year-old man victim was walking on Kelvinside Road in Noble Park when he was shot in both legs by a moving motor vehicle. The victim sought help from nearby residents and then taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition. For victims of crime…
DetailsOn Friday the 23-11-12 at around 12:45 am a male offender wearing a balaclava attempted to hold up a service station on Torquay Road in Grovedale. The offender soon realized that the entrance door was locked and then moved to the window where he produced a knife and motioned to the shop assist the cash…
DetailsVictims of domestic abuse are confronted by many challenges in their dealings with the Victorian legal system. Whilst the Victorian judicial system have made several changes to attempt to facilitate access to justice, it needs to continue to reform in order to ensure victims of violence achieve justice, in a timely and sensitive fashion. A…
DetailsSince 1989 the NSW Victims Compensation Scheme has paid out almost $1.6 billion in compensation to victims of crime. Only $57.4 million of which has been recovered from the proceeds of crime to help fund the compensation scheme, with debts owed by offenders through unpaid levies totalling $310 million to June 2012. Peter Achterstraat, NSW…
DetailsStatistics from September 2011 to September 2012 released by Victoria Police: Crime rate up by 5.9%. Number of offences up by 27,516 to 395,406 offences, 7.5% increase. 3. Crime against a person up by 11.3%, with assaults up by 14.2%.4. Crime against property up by 1.7%, with motor vehicles thefts up by 7.6 and theft from…
DetailsOn Friday the 16-11-12 at around 3.30 pm a thirty-one-year-old female was walking towards her motor vehicle in the Hoppers Crossing Railway Station car park when an unknown male assailant aged around twenty years approached her and after a brief conversation forced her into her motor vehicle where he proceeded to sexually assault her before…
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