A STRIKING display of a Frankston pianist performing is on show at the Frankston Arts Centre. Andrew Farrell first started playing on a pianola gifted to him by his grandparents. He went on to study classical piano, and has been performing ever since. A shot of Mr Farrell playing has been included in the Life is Music photo exhibition at the Frankston Arts Centre. The exhibition features photographs taken between 2017 and 2019 of performers playing at Frankston Music Festival events. Festival past director Robert Thurley said “there are some iconic pictures and they draw the energy that was on…
Author: Bayside News
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged a man following a series of car thefts in Seaford yesterday morning. Officers were called to a Seaford business about 5.10am after it was reported three cars had been stolen. Police located the first car abandoned in Carrum Downs and the second in Roden Court, Dandenong. The third car was sighted by members of the public who performed a citizen’s arrest on the male passenger, before police arrived shortly after. The female driver fled the scene and has yet to be located. A 30-year-old Chadstone man was charged with three counts of theft of…
A MAN is wanted by police after he exposed his buttocks to two young girls on a Frankston line train. Police say that the man approached the two girls on the train at around 6.50pm on 20 March. He allegedly exposed his buttocks and made inappropriate comments towards the girls. The man boarded the train at Caulfield, and departed at Bentleigh Station at around 7pm. Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives have released an image of a man they wish to speak to about the incident (pictured). Police describe him as “Caucasian, approximately 35-years-old, about 180cm tall with a shaved head,…
A WOMAN was caught driving more than three times the legal alcohol limit in Mentone last week. Police intercepted the car on Balcombe Road at around 12.50am on 13 June. The driver was taken to a police station, where she was found to have an alleged blood alcohol reading of .187. The 53-year-old will be charged with exceed prescribed concentration of alcohol, and face the Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court. She lost her licence on the spot and had her car impounded for a month. Police caught the woman as part of operation “Regal”, which ran over the Queen’s birthday long weekend.…
ON 1 May 1989, 42-year-old Christopher Phillips was found dead by his wife in their Cheltenham home. 32 years on from Mr Phillips’ death, police have issued a renewed plea for information. Mr Phillips was found at the Gaybre Street house with significant head trauma and lacerations from a serious assault. Two bloody knives were found next to his body. A statement from Victoria Police read “Christopher had no defensive wounds and police believe he was likely attacked from behind with a heavy blunt object. “It appeared as though the house had been ransacked, however nothing appeared to have been…