27 October 2014
A Star News Group Publication
Covering Endeavour Hills, Doveton & Hallam
Hub is open for business
Life’s grand at 100
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Monday, 27 October
2014
NEW RELEAS E WRITES HIGHGROVE ’S STORY PAGE 2
■ Grief over partner’s suspicious death led to rampage...
Violent history
‘Big day, mate!’
THERE they were - a group of new mates enjoying a day on the bay. Endeavour Hills resident Mick Keating, right, and his son Adam, second from left, were joined by motorcycle hero Casey Stoner, left, and fishing TV personality Paul Worsteling when they took a boat out for Mates Day on the Bay on Sunday. The annual event was first created in 1999 by the Futurefish Foundation and is hosted by Lynette and Trevor Hogan from Launching Way on the Patterson River. For the full story of Adam’s big day out on the bay, turn to page 5. 29471 Picture: GARY SISSONS
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AN ICE user with a “history of violence” has said that grief over his former partner’s suspicious death was the reason why he smashed a bus driver’s side window with a baseball bat in Hallam last year. Troy Boothey, 25, appearing in a video link from his current Port Phillip Prison address, was sentenced to an extra two months in jail at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. He was also ordered to pay the bus company $1000 for the damage. The court was told that Boothey, who was driving a silver Holden sedan, cut off a Cranbourne Transit bus at a roundabout at Hinrichsen and Keppel drives on 28 November. He then got out of his car and shattered the bus’s driverside window with the bat. The driver’s face and hand were cut by the broken glass, the court was told. Boothey was arrested over the incident in March after being identified by the driver from a photograph. He gave police a “no comment” interview. Boothey had been in custody since 20 April and had
received a 14-month jail term in July for drug, deception and assault offences including breaking his father’s arm. Last month he received an 18-month cumulative term reduced to 16 months after a County Court appeal - over pursuing and sideswiping a car in December. Defence lawyer Jacqueline Kennedy told the court that Boothey’s offending and ice use had spiralled out of control after the death of his former partner Maddison Murphy-West at her home in Pakenham in October last year and the subsequent removal of their one-year-old son from his care. Boothey then went on a “bit of a rampage”, Ms Kennedy said. Magistrate Mr Vandersteen noted some of the offending such as robbery and recklessly causing injury - predated Ms Murphy-West’s death, and that there was a nexus between his drug use and offending. At Wednesday’s hearing, Boothey was sentenced to four months’ jail - with two months served on top of his previous jail term. Ms Murphy-West’s death has been investigated by homicide detectives. No-one has been charged.
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