On Sunday the 25-11-12 at around 8.50 am a fifty-two-year-old woman from Geelong was riding her bike in Torquay when a teenage male travelling in a four-wheel-drive motor vehicle leaned out the front passenger window and slapped her on the backside. The victim subsequently lost control and fell of her bike and sustained a broken…
DetailsOn the 24-11-12 at around 4.00 am it is believed that the two male victims, aged eighteen and nineteen years, were involved in a verbal altercation with several men in a motor vehicle in East Geelong. The assailants then got out of the motor vehicle and proceeded to physically assault the victims using a wooden…
DetailsOn Saturday the 24-11-12 at around 1.30 am a twenty-two-year-old male was stabbed in Hamilton. The victim was found by his mother at around 3.15 am. CIU detectives believe that more than one assailant may have been involved in the assault. The victim sustained serious injuries and was treated at the Hamilton Hospital. If you…
DetailsOn Friday the 23-11-12 about 1000 people marked against domestic violence in the Melbourne CBD. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology around sixty women are killed each year by a partner. VicHealth reported domestic violence as being ‘the leading contributor to death, disability and illness in women aged from fifteen to forty-four years. Ken…
DetailsFamily incident related crime has increased by 288% since 2003. Approximately 40% of assaults 25% of rapes are family violence related. In 2011 – 2012 there were 16,047 physical assaults, 1229 sexual assaults and 483 rapes arising from family violence. Ken Lay, Chief Commissioner, said that …’it is an unfortunate reflection of some attitudes in…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 21-11-12 at around 1.15 am three masked assailants with machetes entered the pokies venue at the Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre, terrorised patrons and threatening staff demanding cash. Senior Sergeant Stamper described it as a traumatic experience for patrons and staff. If you have been the victim of an armed robbery or other…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 13-11-12 at around 10.00 pm a twenty-year-old female was walking along a bicycle track beside Hampton Beach when she was grabbed by an unknown male assailant and forcibly dragged into nearby bushes where she was sexually assaulted. The victim managed to fight back and escaped to a nearby property for help. If…
DetailsOn Thursday the 22-11-12 at 7.30 pm a vigil will be held at Paradise Park in Point Cook to remember Sarah Cafferkey. Alice Osborne, Organiser, said that the community wants to show that they are very saddened by her murder and to display support to her family. For victims of crime support and advice call…
DetailsOn the 15-11-12 at around 1.30 am a man in his thirties was waiting at a Brunswick West bus stop when he suffered an epileptic seizure and lost consciousness. Upon regaining consciousness he discovered his backpack missing. Brunswick police are asking for any witnesses to come forward. Graeme Shears, chief executive of the Epilespy Foundation…
DetailsOn the 16-11-12 at around 5.45 am a twenty-six-year-old female walked into her Essendon home from her back yard to be confronted by a male assailant in her bedroom who sexually assaulted her before fleeing. The assailant is described as being aged between his mid to late twenties and of Southern European appearance. Fawkner SOCAU…
DetailsOn Thursday the 01-11-12 at around 8.00 pm a seventeen-year-old male was threatened to be killed at the Meadow Heights Shopping Centre. The victim said that he was threatened by two men initially inside the shopping centre and then in the car park, who indicated that they had a firearm. Police arrested a twenty-two-year-old man…
DetailsOn Friday the 23-11-12 there will be a Walk Against Family Violence in Melbourne. The walk has been Organised by Phil Cleary, whose sister was murder in 1987, and he anticipates thousands to attend. In September of this year around thirty thousand marched for Jill Meagher, whose alleged murderer has a criminal history. This week…
DetailsOn the 19-11-12 at around midday a nineteen year old female was physically assaulted by two teenage males in Bendigo. The female victim was sitting in park lands when she was approached by the assailants who initially verbally abused her and as she went to walk away she was pushed to the ground and kicked…
DetailsOn Monday the 19-11-12 just after 2.00 pm a women in her fifties was shot and killed in West Footscray. Neighbours heard an altercation and then shots and called the police who arrived to find the woman’s body lying in the street. Police took a male in his fifties into custody. If you are the…
DetailsOn the 18-11-12 at around 11.00 pm two men, aged twenty-two and twenty-eight years, were arrested by police in St Kilda following a number of armed robberies on the number 96 tram. The assailants used a box cutter and a garden stake to threaten tram commuters before stealing their possessions. If you have been the…
DetailsOn Sunday the 18-11-12 at around 11.20 pm a security guard was stabbed to the neck outside a licensed premises in the Melbourne CBD. Other security staff came to the victim’s aid and restrained the forty-two-year-old assailant until police arrived and he was arrested. The twenty three year old security guard sustained lacerations to his…
DetailsOn Sunday the 18-11-12 at around 1.10 am two women caught a taxi in Donvale. A short time later the two female passengers were involved in a verbal argument with the taxi driver and he soon stopped the taxi. As the females were exiting the taxi the driver allegedly drove off dragging one of them,…
DetailsOn Saturday the 17-11-12 a male approached an offender who was attempting to steal a motor vehicle in Noble Park. There was a confrontation during which the male offender stabbed the victim to his neck. The victim of the crime was rushed by ambulance to The Alfred Hospital. For financial support and professional advice call…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 07-11-12 at around 5.00 pm a family of four, including two children, was asleep when a burglar entered their Windsor home through a side door into the kitchen stealing a handbag and fleeing in the victims’ motor vehicle. If you have been the victim of an aggravated burglary contact Victims of Crime…
DetailsOn Friday the 16-11-12 at around 1.30 pm a sixteen year old female left a Milk Bar in Wangaratta and was then followed by a motor vehicle containing two men aged in their forties. The vehicle soon parked across a footpath preventing the young girl from walking past. One of the males then asked her…
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