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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2024
Local People Candidate has fond memoires of Father Bob
● Fr Bob Maguire pictured with Beverley Pinder ■ City of Port Phillip Council candidate Beverley Pinder has recalled a saying of the late Middle Park priest, Fr Bob Maguire, as she reviews her motivation for standing for election. “Bringing communitarianism to the fore and with the late Fr Bob’s words ringing in my ears, I am delighted to be turning my mind, heart and actions to the local community I have loved since moving to Australia in 1968 and living in Dalgety St, St Kilda,” Ms Pinder told The Local Paper. “A ‘boots and all’ definition coined by Fr Bob in his foreword of my autobiography is very much front and centre of my work and vision, so I have put up my hand as an independent candidate for Albert Park. “With seven years as a Councillor at the City of Melbourne, and, while seasoned, I remain an ‘unlikely politician’ and I am ready to have a go as part of a group of independents called People Empowering Port Phillip (PEPP). “My key attributes are my work ethic and my commitment to community and focus on others. I will not be reliant on preferences. If you wish to elect me, then please vote me No 1. The rest I leave to you,” Ms Pinder said in her voting material. ● Meet The Candidates, P11-16
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EVADED POLICE IN DOMAIN TUNNEL
■ Detectives from the VIPER Taskforce late last week charged four people as part of an investigation into allegedly attempting to pervert the course of justice following an attempted intercept and evade of a dangerous driver. Police attempted to intercept a grey Land Rover during a pursuit after it was spotted being driven in a dangerous manner through the Domain Tunnel around 1pm on Monday, February 26. The vehicle, travelling east, failed to stop and fled police at the Burnley exit. The registered owner of the vehicle, a 22year-old Box Hill woman, subsequently nomi-
$8MIL. PAYOUT AT BEAUMARIS
● Beaumaris Primary School ■ A man has been awarded an $8 million compensation payment after he made sex abuse allegations against Darrell Ray, a teacher at Beaumaris Primary School in the 1970s. The State Government’s Education Department settled the case just one week before it was due to be heard in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
nated a 23-year-old Reservoir man as the driver. He was arrested and interviewed by police on Friday, April 26 and initially identified himself as the driver, before admitting he had been asked to fraudulently identify himself as the driver by a 25-year-old Lalor woman. An investigation by members from Highway Patrol identified the actual driver as a 31-yearold Wheelers Hill man and the investigation was transferred to the VIPER Taskforce. In May of this year, four search warrants were executed at residential addresses in in Reservoir, Lalor, Blackburn and Bayswater North. A 25-year-old Lalor woman and a 23-yearold Reservoir man were both charged on Tuesday (Oct. 8) with attempt to pervert the course of justice. The duo was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (Oct. 10) A 22-year-old Box Hill woman and a 31-yearold Wheelers Hill man were both charged on Wednesday (Oct. 9) with attempt to pervert the course of justice and dangerous driving whilst pursued by police. They were bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on October 10. Investigators will allege the 25-year-old Lalor woman recruited the 23-year-old Reservoir man to nominate himself for a driving offence committed by another person. The investigation remains ongoing.
Albert Park criminal damage
■ Port Phillip Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man after more than 20 cars were allegedly damaged and bins were set on fire in Albert Park. It is alleged he damaged and scratched approximately 20 cars on Carter St and Canterbury Rd overnight between Sunday-Monday, September 29-30. He also allegedly lit bin fires on Dundas Place and Brooke St between WednesdayThursday, October 2-3. The 39-year-old was arrested in Dandenong on Friday, October 4. The Ringwood East man was charged with criminal damage and arson. He was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on October, 18.
BLUNDERS ON VOTING CARDS
■ Lord Mayor hopefuls Arron Wood and Anthony Koutofides each had incorrect howto-vote material, the Herald Sun reports. Journalists Laura Placella and Ian Royall reported that former Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood suggested that voters should vote above and below the line on the councillor ballopt paper. The newspaper said that Mr Koutoufides’s flyers indicated the people only needed to fill out four boxes to vote for his team of want-to-be Councillors. Team Kouta was forced to bin the incorrect material, and order a reprint. Team Wood said it deleted the wrong material from its social media pages.
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