6 April 2015
A Star News Group Publication
Covering Endeavour Hills, Doveton & Hallam
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She didn’t see the arrest blowfor-blow having been directed to stay outside with some of her children. She believed Karam wasn’t treated fairly and her children saw “their daddy get attacked”. Sen Const Malek said she was concerned for the couple’s four children – also protected under the intervention order – due to Kalam’s drug issues and his partner’s support for him on the night and in court the next day. Karam told the court he had failed to appear at court on 25 March because he arrived on the wrong date and that his partner had told him the intervention order had expired. “She rang up and said I could spend some time with the kids,” he told the court. Magistrate Barry Schultz said the alleged violence could be looked at in “two ways” and was a matter for a contested hearing not a bail application. “What I have to determine is the simple matter of granting you bail, including protecting children from witnessing violence.” Karam was remanded in custody to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court last Thursday.
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including allegedly assaulting his brother and stealing a small amount of cannabis, Sen Const Malek said. The informant said Karam received a “minor torch injury” to the side of his head from one of the officers during the arrest. He was given first aid at the scene and was bandaged by a paramedic. Karam alleged in court that he was struck with a torch and punched multiple times “until a gash was spilling out with blood. “They were just beating me to a pulp.” Karam said he believed his cheekbone was fractured and shoulder dislocated during the arrest. His partner, while giving evidence in court on behalf of the accused’s bail application, said she’d believed Karam was allowed to come over and look after the children. “There were no drugs, no weapons. He was nagging at me. He was sitting on my couch refusing to leave. He wasn’t hurting me.” Karam had suffered drug issues in the past but had been “the best father he has been in his life” since visiting the home for the past five weeks, she said.
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A FAMILY-violence victim has sided with her estranged husband, claiming in court that police used excessive force during his arrest. Toufiq Jabr Karam of Endeavour Hills was sporting marks to his face and a bump to his right temple as he failed to ‘show cause’ for bail at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Monday. He was facing multiple charges including failing to appear on bail and breaching a family-violence intervention order. Police informant Senior Constable Jo Malek told the court that four police forcibly restrained the accused during a struggle after he swung an elbow backwards at an officer on 29 March. That night, Karam’s partner twice called triple-zero stating the “belligerent and verbally abusive” accused refused to leave her Lynbrook house, Sen Const Malek told the court. Karam had been barred from visiting the address under an intervention order since October. On that night there was a warrant for his arrest for failing to appear at court over charges
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