On Saturday the 29-09-12 (AFL Grand Final day) at around 5.15 pm a forty-five-year-old male victim was punched to the head and knocked unconscious at the Ferrars Street Hotel in South Melbourne. The victim was taken to The Alfred Hospital with serious injuries. Police are looking for four men who arrived at the hotel earlier…
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 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 Wednesday the 05-09-12 at around 8.45 am a twenty-year-old woman stabbed a known twenty-four-year-old male in Somerville. The female assailant was arrested by police and the male victim was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital with serious injuries. For financial support and professional advice call Victims of Crime Compensation Victoria 1800 000 055 or go…
DetailsIn Australia Physical Assault is by far the most common type of violent crime. In 2010 there were 171,083 physical assaults, 17,757 sexual assaults, 14,582 robberies and 260 homicides with physical assault offending significantly increasing over the past ten years with assaults committed by females increasing by 49% and assaults committed by males increasing by…
DetailsOn Saturday the 18-08-12 four men of African appearance physically assaulted and robbed a twenty-nine-year-old male victim near the Heidelberg train station. The victim was followed and then asked by one of the assailants for the time and then threatened with a knife and demands were made for his mobile phone, which the victim handed…
DetailsOn Thursday the 16-08-12 at around 10.00 pm a forty-six-year-old man and a thirty-one-year-old female were waiting at Southern Road bus stop in Heidelberg when they were approached by the four male assailants. The male victim was struck with an iron bar and fell to the ground at which time the assailants attacked the female,…
DetailsOn Friday the 25-08-12 at around 11.15 pm a male victim was physically assaulted by a twenty-year-old male assailant outside Crown Casino. The victim sustained injuries to his upper body and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition. The assailant was arrested at the scene and bailed to appear at court on…
DetailsOn the 19-08-12 at around 2.30 am a twenty-six-year-old male was approached by an unknown male assailant in South Yarra who proceeded to slash the victim to the neck with a box cutter. The assailant then fled and the attack was described as unprovoked. The victim was treated at The Alfred Hospital with serious injuries.…
DetailsOn the 12-08-12 at around 2.30 am a nineteen-year-old male from Melbourne was physically assaulted with a pole while waiting at a taxi rank in Bendigo. Four men from Bendigo aged in their twenties have since been arrested and charged. It is believed that up to seven assailants were involved in the attack. If you…
DetailsOn the 11-08-12 at around 12.30 am a twenty-year-old male was seriously physically assaulted at a Traralgon bar. The victim sustained head and spinal injuries and was transferred to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne for treatment. At around the same time a twenty-six-year-old man was physically assault outside a Melbourne CBD nightclub. The victim was…
DetailsOn the 04-08-12 at around 10.20 pm a pizza delivery person was making a pizza delivery to Bayswater when he was approached by a male assailant in the street and physically assaulted with a weapon before having his money bag stolen. The victim sustained injuries to his head and face requiring medical treatment. If you…
DetailsOn the 27-07-12 just after 10.00 pm a sixty-two-year-old male victim was walking through a railway underpass in Noble Park when he was approached by a teenage male assailant who demanded money. The victim was then physically assaulted by several assailants before managing to run away. Not long after a forty-one-year-old man was walking through…
DetailsOn the 05-08-12 a sixteen-year-old football player attacked the twenty-two-year-old umpire during a game following an umpiring decision. The victim was punched and kneed to the face resulting in a blood nose and needed the assistance of others to pull the assailant off him. The assailant has been suspended for ten years and victim reported…
DetailsOn the 01-08-12 a teenage girl was approached by an adult male assailant in Romsey and physically assaulted for no apparent reason sustaining facial injuries that required medical treatment,
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On the 05-08-12 at around 1.00 am a fight broke out at the Melbourne CBD Gentleman’s Club during which a twenty-seven-year-old male was struck to the head with a glass. The victim sustained a laceration to his head and was treated at the Alfred Hospital. If you have been the victim of a physical assault…
DetailsOn the 02-08-12 during the mid afternoon the thirty-seven-year-old male victim was walking through a park in Mitcham listening to his headphones when he was struck from behind and fell to the ground at which time the assailant stole his wallet and phone and then fled. If you have been the victim of a physical…
DetailsOn the 27-07-12 at around 8.00 pm a thirty-six-year-old woman was walking near KFC in Dandenong when she was approached by two young males of African appearance. One assailant then punched her to the head from behind while the other stole her hand bag before fleeing. If you have been the victim of a physical…
DetailsOn the 29-07-12 at around 4.00 am a thirty-two-year-old male was attacked outside a Melbourne CBD Nightclub and suffered serious head injuries and was treated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition. A thirty-seven-year-old backpacker from South Australia has since been charged with physical assault. If you have been the victim of a physical…
DetailsOn the 22-07-12 a twenty-two-year-old male was at a Melbourne CBD Nightclub when he went to the bathroom at around 3.10 am. The unknown male assailant entered the bathroom and attacked the victim without provocation with a box cutter seriously lacerating his face resulting in the victim being hospitalized for four days. If you have been…
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