The Legal Services Board has recently awarded just over $2 million to ten recipients for projects aimed at promoting and improving the legal and justice system in Victoria. Two of the projects include: A grant of over $60K to investigate and propose the best approach to establishing a specialist court list to respond to child…
DetailsVictims of Crime Counselling and Compensation Services provide a range of services to people who have experienced or witnessed violent crimes, including physical assault, aggravated burglaries, armed robberies, sexual abuse, stalking, domestic violence, homicide and so on. About 80% of crime victims are adults with 20% being under eighteen years of age. Younger victims may…
DetailsAccording to a medical specialist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Dr Martin Dutch, “the number of violent assaults had hugely increased in the past 30 months”. Lindsay Bent of Ambulance Victoria said that “nearly all of the inner city Ambulance crews on Friday and Saturday nights were tied up with alcohol-related injuries”. The majority of victims…
DetailsBeing a victim of crime is often traumatic but victims do not need to deal with it alone. Crime often effects not only the primary victim but also witnesses as well as the victim’s family. It is important for victims of crime to report the crime to police in order to assist the police to…
DetailsOn Saturday the 15-09-12 just after 12.00 am shots were fired into a garage and a parked motor vehicle at a home in California Gully, just outside Bendigo. The resident heard the shots and fortunately no one was injured.
For victims of crime support and advice call 1800 000 055 or go to www.victimsofcrime.com.au
On Sunday the 10-09-12 at around 9.20 pm at twenty-eight-year-old male observed a thief remove items from his motor vehicle which was parked in a Melbourne CBD Alley. The victim followed the offender who soon produced a knife. Witnesses called the police who arrived promptly and arrested an eighteen-year-old male and charged him with numerous…
DetailsIn 2011-12 in Victoria there were 77,676 crimes recorded against small businesses, such as petrol stations, convenience stores, hotels, restaurants and supermarkets, a 4% increase over the previous year. Aggravated burglaries increased by 22%. Arson by 19%. Burglaries involving people working from home by 16%. Motor vehicle theft by 23%. Crimes of deception by 3%.…
DetailsOn Sunday the 16-09-12 at around 4.00 am a twenty-eight-year-old male was found lying in a pool of blood in Mornington following a suspected serious physical assault. A passerby found the male and quickly called for assistance. The victim suffered lacerations to his face and head and was flown by air ambulance to the Alfred…
DetailsOn the 06-09-12 at around 10.30 pm two masked male assailants broke into a home in Hawthorn while the lone resident was asleep. The assailants then physically assaulted the victim with a saucepan from the kitchen striking him to the head several times demanding money. The victim sustained lacerations to his head. For victims of…
DetailsOn Friday the 14-09-12 at around 2.30 pm a female was standing at a Ballarat bus stop when a male aged around thirty years approached her from behind and stabbed her to her neck. The victim sustained minor stab wounds and was treated at the Ballarat Hospital. If you have been the victim of a…
DetailsOn the 09-09-12 a female was the victim of an indecent assault perpetrated by a male assailant as she walked from public transport towards her home. Police believe that the same assailant may be responsible for five similar attacks during the month of August in the suburbs of Doncaster, Templestowe and Box Hill. If you…
DetailsOn Saturday the 15-09-12 at around 1.30 am four masked men armed with guns and baseball bats stormed the Manningham Hotel in Bulleen. Six hotel patrons and three hotel staff were in the gaming room when the assailants entered with one staff member being physically assaulted sustaining laceration to his face and treated at the…
DetailsOn the 13-09-12 at around 3.30 pm two teenage boys were the victims of a robbery as they walked from the Eltham Train Station. The two older male assailants stole iPhones from both victims. The teenage victims were not physically harmed. For victims of crime support and advice call 1800 000 055 or go to…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 11-09-12 at around 9.45 pm a fight broke out between two parties on a train travelling on the Belgrave line. The fight continued to the Bayswater Train Station during which a twenty-two-year-old male victim was stabbed multiple times to his abdomen. The victim was taked to hospital with non life threatening injuries.…
DetailsOn Monday the 10-09-12 at around 9.30 pm a male assailant aged between thirty and thirty-five years and armed with a knife attempted to hold up the Prahran KFC. The assailant jumped the counter and threatened staff with the knife but left empty handed as staff were unable to open the cash registers during the…
DetailsOn the 14-09-12 at around 8.15 pm two men were involved in an altercation outside a pizza shop in Lygon Street East Brunswick with the victim being struck with a machete. The forty-year-old victim sustained serious injuries and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The assailant was described as being aged in his twenties…
DetailsIn 2011 – 2012 1386 prisoners of 1843 prisoners on parole breached their parole orders, a 30% increase over the previous year. 659 prisoners had their parole cancelled, including 107 who recorded another conviction. 3 Victorians were murdered by parole violators during 2011 – 2012. Sex offenders breached court-ordered conditions 1192 times, a more than…
DetailsDisability groups state that sexual and physical abuse is rampant amongst disabled people living in care. Kevin Stone, of the Disability Advocacy Group – Valid, said: “we know it’s happening…we think it’s the tip of the ice-burg…and it’s happening in far more services that we dare think…and not just in Victoria”. Colleen Pearce, Victorian Public…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 11-09-12 at around 8.55 pm a male assailant held up the Chelsea Heights Milk Bar with a shotgun. During the robbery a dog was shot dead. Some ten minutes later the Edithvale Milk Bar was also help up and police believe that the same assailant is responsible for both incidents. If you…
DetailsOn Thursday the 13-09-12 at around 6.00 pm a male assailant in his twenties entered the Mooroolbark Convenience Store and threatened the teenage staff member with a machete. The assailant then walked behind the shop counter, pushing the staff member away, before fleeing towards Maroondah Highway. On the same day an assailant armed with a…
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