News - Berwick - 31st March 2016

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Copping a cuppa with a copper Friends Diane and Lynette didn't bargain on sharing a cuppa with a local cop during their shopping expidition to Westfield Fountain Gate last week. The friends were joined by Acting Sergeant Dave Smith for a coffee and a chat about local crime. For the full story turn to page 11. 151906 Pictures: STEWART CHAMBERS

■ Swearing yobbos kill and mutilate kangaroos...

Sickening attack Bishop disturbed the group of “yobbos” with a torch, before hearing a “hammering sound” and making the grisly discovery. “At about 11pm we had idiots hooning around the empty block next to us, chasing the kangaroos with their 4WDs,” Mr Bishop said. “There were two vehicles and they were screaming and yelling out the windows as they sped after the poor

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terrified animals.” The drivers hurled abuse at Mr Bishop as they left the scene, but it’s suspected the same men returned an hour later with weapons to kill. Mr Bishop recalls seeing six to eight men gathered around a twitching kangaroo, about midnight. “They were standing in the headlights of a very large white 4WD ...

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two adult kangaroos with their throats slashed, ears hacked off and organs spilling out. One leg had been chopped off and the unborn joey was found in the gutter. A devastated Mr Bishop said he was still coming to terms with the ordeal which unfolded on his driveway. Continued to page 3

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the unfortunate kangaroo was upside down, its legs splayed wide and one of the men was hacking away at it with a very large knife. “The other males were talking excitedly and watching the spectacle, while another group was on the grass and I could hear a hammering sound coming from them.” Endeavour Hills police were too late to catch the men, but found the

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AN UNBORN joey was decapitated in a sickening, violent group attack on two kangaroos in Lysterfield South. The tortured bodies of two kangaroos and an embryo were found off Battersby Way, near the Churchill National Park, in the early hours of Wednesday 23 March. Lysterfield South resident Robert

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