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Charges follow ‘abhorrent’ attack on paramedic A ROSEBUD man who allegedly stabbed a female paramedic, Friday 13 July, was Wednesday night charged with intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury and several other assault charges. The paramedic, 46, was loading her two children into her car after picking up take-away from a shop in Nepean Highway, Rosebud, when the man, 47, allegedly grabbed her from behind and slashed her across the chest with a box cutter in a random attack. He then rode away on a bicycle. The woman was taken to Frankston Hospital where she received a “large number of stitches” to treat a 15 centimetre gash on her chest. Ambulance Victoria chief executive Tony Walker said the paramedic’s
Police patrol children aged four and six witnessed the “absolutely abhorrent” attack from the back seat of the car. Still in shock the next day, the woman said on radio she thought she may have treated the man in her role as a paramedic. While not drawing a link to her job and the recent spate of attacks on emergency services workers, she said she would not wear her uniform when driving home again in case it had “triggered” the attack. Detective Senior Constable Alex Montgomery, of Mornington Peninsula CIU, said the man had been charged at Dandenong police station and remanded to appear at Melbourne
Armed robbery, assault charges A ST ANDREWS Beach man has been charged with aggravated burglary after allegedly breaking into a Sorrento house and stealing cash, phone, iPad and attempting to steal a car, Thursday 12 July. Residents at the Hotham Road house awoke to noises and looked outside to see a man sitting in the driver’s seat of their Holden station wagon as it rolled down the driveway. Detective Sergeant Rohan Brock said the residents confronted the man and attempted to hold him until police arrived. When he became agitated they were forced to let him go al-
though they did manage to retrieve the iPad, cash and phone. The next day, Friday 13 July, police arrested a man, 23, in Rosebud after he allegedly threatened a man, 50, with a knife, and hid in a shed. He was remanded in custody to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court, Thursday 23 August, on assault charges. The man is due to appear at a filing hearing at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, Wednesday 18 July, on other charges, including criminal damage and armed robbery of a taxi driver in the city, Monday 9 July, and evading police.
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Magistrates’ Court, Thursday 19 July. He was then further remanded to appear at a committal hearing at the same court on Thursday 11 October to face additional charges, including criminal damage, theft, assault, theft of a motor car and weapons offences. Detective Montgomery said the other charges related to violent incidents following the alleged assault on the paramedic in which the man allegedly used a small axe to smash the windows of a car in Ninth Avenue, Rosebud; used the axe to smash the window of a take-away food store in Pt Nepean Road while the owners cowered inside and pleaded with him that they were closed; and then stole a car from outside the Rosebud Hotel before crashing it into a tree opposite. The man then allegedly threatened those trying to help him out of the car with a hammer and the axe before running off and hiding on the foreshore. Detective Montgomery said the man was finally arrested by Rosebud police after passers-by saw him outside the station holding a knife, 2.45am. The man complained of an injured leg and was taken to Dandenong Hospital for treatment where he was held under guard before being interviewed and charged five days later.
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Glass everywhere: Police estimate up to $2000 damage was done to Nepean Liberal candidate Russell Joseph’s Holden sedan in the random attack. Pictures: Supplied
an otherwise peaceful evening in Rosebud, some guy on a drug fuelled bender had trashed my car, stabbed a woman, threatened another with a tomahawk, trashed another car and assaulted an ambo,” he said. “He is now thankfully in custody, and as far as I know the other victims are doing as well as can be expected.” While saying he’d “had better days” Mr Joseph said the trauma was “nothing compared to that experienced by the paramedic”.
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ASPIRING politician Russell Joseph was “inadvertently caught up” in the drama which unfolded in Rosebud, Friday 13 July, when an off-duty paramedic was stabbed, shop windows smashed, cars crashed and traders huddled in fear. The Nepean Liberal candidate had left his Ninth Avenue office about 7pm and stepped into the dark street. “The street light was not working but I could see police standing around my car and heard the commotion and wondered what was going on,” he said. “Then I saw the car’s smashed windscreen, smashed side and rear windows … there was glass everywhere …” He was told a man – at that time still on the run after allegedly assaulting the paramedic – had used a tomahawk to cause up to $2000 damage to his Holden sedan. “It was certainly a shock. On
FIVE people were arrested by Mornington police after allegedly stealing alcohol and other property from the Mornington on Tanti Hotel, early Sunday morning. Detective Sergeant Jason Hocking, of Somerville CIU, said police will allege alcohol valued at $150 was stolen from the bar area and clothing, tonneau cover and 12-volt air compressor, valued at $550, was stolen from a utility in the hotel’s car park, 5am, Sunday 22 July. A Dingley Village man, 26, and a Skye man, 27, were remanded to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Monday) charged with burglary, theft and theft from a motor vehicle. A Narre Warren man, 33, was bailed to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on the same charges in September. Two women allegedly with the men – a 36-year-old, of Croydon, and a 25-year-old, of Hampton East – were interviewed by police and released pending further inquiries. Detective Hocking said Mornington police were alerted to the robbery after the alarm sounded and were able to watch it unfold on CCTV. He said all the property was recovered.
A BUSLOAD of 18-25-year-old students from the Centre for Multicultural Youth visited Main Ridge on a brisk morning last week excited at the prospect of planting trees – and perhaps seeing their first kangaroo. The event was run by Ucan2 multicultural youth worker Sarah Williams and Mornington Peninsula Shire land care facilitator Jacqui Salter. Ucan2 supports young, newly arrived refugees and migrants. Ali escaped persecution and arrived in Australia in 2015. He saw the trip to the peninsula as “our best excursion ever … I felt like we were a family going on a trip to nature – all the sights, smells and experiences were new to us”. Youth worker Sarah said the students saw kangaroos – “things I took for granted growing up in Australia”. “The best part was we got to care for the environment and enjoy nature. It was therapeutic and healing.”
Peninsula Transport Assist driver Geoff picked up the group at Frankston station, drove them to Main Ridge and dropped them of at Narre Warren, with a stop to watch some kangaroos. The planting was part of the Mornington Peninsula Landcare Network’s Greens Bush to Arthurs Seat Biolink. The $300,000 three-and-a-half year project was financed by the state government through the Port Phillip and Western Port Catchment Management Authority. “With the aid of local schools and community groups, we’ve managed to plant more than 15,000 indigenous plants this season,” project coordinator Chantal Kelly said. Ms Kelly said residents could contribute to the Greens Bush to Arthurs Seat biolink during the Planet Ark National Tree Day, Sunday 29 July, at Arthurs Seat. To register visit treeday. planetark.org/site/10018886
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