Frankston Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives are investigating a series of sexual acts in Seaford last month. Investigators have been told a man showed pornography to a woman parked in the Keast Park car park on the Nepean Highway at 1.33pm on Tuesday, 28 June. The woman reversed her car to leave and the man exposed himself and ran alongside her vehicle as she drove away. About 15 minutes later, two women were walking through the foreshore area and were passed by a man who matched the description. When one of the women looked back towards the…
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A driver is expected to be charged with drink-driving offences after he drove down the wrong side of the Frankston Freeway at over five times the limit, early this morning. Frankston police saw the man on the freeway and located an esky on the passenger seat around 1.30am. The driver, a 50-year-old Box Hill man, returned an evidentiary breath test of 0.255. His car was immediately impounded, his licence suspended for 12 months, and he is expected to be charged on summons with drink driving and other traffic related offences. Victoria Police News – Tuesday 26 July 2022
FRANKSTON Police will host a community forum next month to discuss recent crime trends with residents. The forum will cover topics including high risk driving, youth crime, family violence, mental health, and emergency health. The community forum will be held at McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin at 9am on 18 August. Superintendent Fiona Bock said that Frankston Police members are “looking forward to the opportunity to engage with our local community, offer some clarity on any topical issues, and hear more about the issues closest to their hearts.” “We are here to keep our community safe. As well as responding to…
TWO Monterey Secondary College educators have won big awards for their hard work. Monterey Secondary College principal Peter Langham and teacher Jessica Cridland were winners at the recent 2022 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards. Langham was appointed acting principal in 2019 amid a time of unrest at the school. He was the third principal appointed for the year. Since then the school has recorded its best VCE results in a decade and improved the completion of senior certificates from 65 per cent to 100 per cent. He was named one of twelve winners of the teaching fellowship award. Cridland was handed…
A MURDER on the waters of Port Phillip Bay is the mystery inside a new fiction novel. Death on the Ferry Hygeia is a new novel from Langwarrin author Will Spokes. The murder mystery is set just after the first World War at a charity event aboard the Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. Spokes said that the novel is inspired by the works of legendary author Agatha Christie. “I’m a fan of crime and murder mysteries like most people. One of the great titles in this genre is Murder on the Orient Express. Because of my interest in the…