He went on a violent rampage, smashed up their house and threatened to kill them. But the parents of this former captain of a Werribee football club, ice addict and gambler have stood by their son, pleading for him to be freed from jail.
We’ve heard of the booming Melbourne property market increasing the load on roads and schools, but now a former Werribee real estate director has blamed it for his spiral into drugs.
From the street, it looks like any other family home in Point Cook. But when police raided this expensive property, what they found is something that would have lingering effects on its next owners.
A Hoppers Crossing man who tried to take matters into his own hands when he witnessed a suspected drug deal might think twice about interfering next time after his actions landed him in front of a magistrate.
A furious husband tracked down a single mum of four who pinched his wife’s handbag from a Hoppers Crossing op shop and scared her into handing it over to the police. And all his detective work needed was a common phone app.
A Point Cook man found with guns stashed under his bed has fronted court over his dodgy weapon storage solution. The recreational hunter proffered a weak excuse for the dangerous act.
The meth-addicted getaway car driver in a Hoppers Crossing daylight armed robbery has been warned by a judge to kick her drug habit so she can be a good mum to her young children.
An ice addict who fired off two wayward shots during a bungled armed robbery in the west has been jailed. The incident came just four months after he assaulted a man in a terrifying road rage incident in Taylors Lakes.
A vicious attack by a Hoppers Crossing man, who stabbed his stepdad with a barbecue fork and slashed him with a pruning saw, has been described by a magistrate as “a homicide in the making”.
A young landscape gardener has dug himself into a hole by refusing a breath test after he smashed his car into another vehicle at Pacific Werribee, then fled the scene.
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