NEWS DESK Police patrol
With Stephen Taylor
Girl charged over assault A MORNINGTON girl, 15, has been charged with intentionally causing injury, affray and unlawful assault at Mornington beach, Tuesday 8 October. The girl is alleged to have assaulted a 15-year-old Mt Martha girl on the foreshore near The Esplanade and Schnapper Point Drive about 6pm. Police said the victim received cuts and bruises. The girls are know each other. Vision of the assault was posted on to social media. The Mornington girl has been bailed to appear at a children’s court at a later date.
Limit exceeded A HASTINGS drink driver returned a breath-test reading of more than six times the legal limit, Tuesday 8 October. The 45-year-old was tested after careering into a ditch. Another driver called police after the crash near the corner of Hodgins and Hendersons roads, 9.30pm. The woman was taken to Hastings police station where she blew 0.333. Police impounded the vehicle and the woman will be charged on summons with various traffic-related offences.
Fatal at Tyabb POLICE and emergency services were called to a fatal crash at Tyabb, Friday 4 October. The collision occurred when two vehicles collided at the intersection of
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Tyabb-Tooradin Road and Westernport Highway, 7.30am. The driver of a Toyota Land Cruiser was travelling north and a Hyundai sedan was travelling west. The driver of the Land Cruiser was not injured but the driver of the Hyundai died at the scene. The circumstances surrounding the crash were being investigated. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 or submit a report at crimestoppersvic. com.au
Officer attacked A MAN has been arrested and charged after allegedly punching an off-duty police officer outside a Frankston pub on 27 September. It is alleged that the 18-year-old man knocked the victim unconscious with one punch outside Flanagan’s bar in the early hours of the grand final day public holiday. The victim was an off-duty police officer who lives in Frankston. Police allege that the victim was unconscious for 15 minutes after being hit and falling to the pavement. He was taken to hospital for treatment in a serious condition. On 2 October, the 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with recklessly cause serious injury in circumstances of gross violence, and other related offences. The alleged offender was remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 6 January for a committal hearing.
16 October 2019
All calm for ‘disaster’ ship’s visit ALL was calm in Port Phillip and the view from HMAS Choules as it lay at anchor off Safety Beach last week. Signs of life on the land would have been unremarkable for those aboard the Choules at night - vehicles travelling along bayside roads, house lights ablaze on the sides of Mt Martha and Arthurs Seat. The only visible military equipment on Wednesday night was a helicopter and the aft deck, with no sign of a disaster or threat in sight.
One of the Royal Australian Navy’s landing ships that are deployed for military support or to supply humanitarian relief or help in the aftermath of natural disasters, the 177 metre Choules can carry more than 300 troops, 23 tanks or 150 trucks and landing craft. Launched in 2003, the former RFA Largs Bay was part of Britain’s Royal Fleet Auxiliary from before being sold to Australia in 2011 for $100 million. Two years before being transferred
from one navy to another and while still sailing under the name Largs bay, the ship was part of the international relief effort following the Haiti earthquake. The Choules is an amphibious landing ship dock that weighs in at 16,000 tonnes. The Choules is part of the Australian Defence Force’s amphibious capability to activate in the case of emergency or natural disaster along with the Canberra and Adelaide. Keith Platt