The Regal, St Kilda, to be shut down amid crime wave

THE St Kilda boarding house at the centre of a recent crime wave that included an attack on radio star Kate Langbroek is to be shut down, as the state housing minister bows to public pressure.

Garbage men recently refused to enter Little Grey St, St Kilda, as the area is plagued by junkies (inset). Picture: Supplied

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A NOTORIOUS St Kilda boarding house is set to be shut down.

Housing Minister and Albert Park state MP Martin Foiley has announced in Parliament the rooming house at 5 Little Grey St, where abuse, open drug use and prostitution has become rife, will be closed and turned into a women’s refuge.

Kate Langbroek with bruise she sustained after she was attacked in her St Kilda home on March 2.

Problems reached crisis point yesterday when radio star and high-profile St Kilda resident Kate Langbroek — who was injured in a “crazed, violent, terrifying attack” at her house last week — lashed out at the State Government.

The building in Little Grey St known as ‘The Regal’. Picture: Penny Stephens

She said the rooming house had become a haven for “every hideous, vile manifestation of humanity that’s abandoned itself” since the Gatwick closed, and demanded the Little Grey St rooming house also be shut down.

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A laneway off Little Grey St, St Kilda where residents have reported an increase in crime, drug use, assaults and thefts since The Gatwick closed. Picture: Penny Stephens