Chilling moment armed ice addict Patrick McMillan drags woman from her car in Melbourne, after police chase

A good Samaritan who tried to a stop a gun-wielding Adelaide man from stealing a car in Melbourne during a police chase has told of the moment he came face-to-face with the carjacker.

Witnesses have recalled the frightening moments leading to a carjacking in Ivanhoe where a gun-wielding ice addict dragged a woman from her luxury car by her hair.

Terrifying video footage from a police chase has been revealed in court, showing a man grabbing a woman by her hair and throwing her to the ground to steal her car.

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Patrick McMillan pleaded guilty to 17 charges including armed robbery, assault, assaulting a police officer and carjacking at the County Court last Tuesday.

Speaking to the Leader after the footage was released, Steven, who did not want his last name used, said he was leaving the train station with his fiance when he saw the carjacking.

“There were people everywhere and I saw three elderly people, two of them on the ground. Everyone was standing around not doing a thing,” the 31-year-old said.

“It did not look good so I parked my car in front of him because it was obvious he was trying to steal the car.

“I tried to open the door on him to reach him and he was trying to pull the door shut and that’s when he pulled a gun out in my face and I instantly ducked and stepped back and let him continue stealing the car.

Steven said his fiance stood in front of the Jaguar to try and stop it taking off before McMillan pointed the gun in her face and she moved.

“She was very shaken up. I wasn’t too bad,” he said.

Police helicopter footage shows the moment a car thief pulls a woman out of her car.

Ivanhoe resident Terry Roberts also saw the carjacking and said it was “shocking”.

“We all exited the station and saw a car flying down the street and hit the brakes. He jumped out and pulled out a handgun and walked over to the red Jaguar where I think the woman was waiting to pick up her husband,” the 30-year-old said.

“I was pretty shocked. At first I thought it was something targeted - that the person in the car was connected to the guy but then I saw how the woman was freaking out and realised it was a random nut.

“I was shocked and amazed that something like that happened.”

Mr Roberts said a “convoy” of police cars arrived about 15 seconds after McMillan took off.

The court heard the McMillan told police he was on a three- to four-week bender using ice, GHB, cocaine and alcohol when he started a police chase through multiple Melbourne suburbs on November 24, 2017.

The 34-year-old Adelaide man was driving through Greensborough in a stolen Holden sedan with licence plates that were stolen earlier that day in Essendon, when he was spotted by police.

An off-duty police officer in plain clothes followed McMillan, and called triple-0.

McMillan realised he was being tailed and pulled over in a Glenroy street.

He accelerated and pulled up in front of the officer, got out of this car and pointed a handgun one metre from the officer’s head and yelled, “Why the f*** are you following me?”.

The shaken police officer drove away and was followed by McMillan until McMillan veered off.

Footage shows the woman being thrown to the ground by a man during a police chase.

McMillan was then chased by police through the northern and western suburbs for almost 90 minutes.

Video footage from a police chopper showed McMillan weaving through traffic at speeds of more than 200kph, driving on the wrong side of the road and on the footpath, running red lights, and driving straight through train boom gates to evade police.

He stopped near Ivanhoe train station about 5.40pm and ran towards a red Jaguar sedan wielding a handgun at the woman sitting in the car.

The woman struggled with McMillan before he grabbed her by her hair and threw her to the ground.

Others came to the woman’s aid but backed off when McMillan pointed the gun at them.

McMillan drove at speeds of more than 200kmh in the emergency lane of the eastern freeway before abandoning the Jaguar in the underground carpark of Doncaster shopping centre where he stole a Mercedes.

McMillan continued the chase until again ditching his car in the Chadstone Shopping Centre carpark and pointing the gun at the driver of a Nissan Skyline, yelling at him to get out.

He eventually pulled into the driveway of 850 Pascoe Vale Rd and was arrested.

The crimes were part of a string of offences committed by McMillan in late November 2017.

He also pleaded guilty to aggravated armed robbery of a group of men who McMillan and another man chased in their car on November 22, 2017.

McMillan hit one of the men in the head with a sawn-off shotgun.

The court heard McMillan had a history of ice addiction.