A PLEASANT evening listening to the band at a Mordialloc hotel turned nasty for a man who was attacked from behind while standing at the urinal, 11.45pm, Friday 8 September. The man told police he heard someone behind him and half turned before being punched repeatedly until he almost blacked out. When his attacker left the man managed to make his way downstairs where he reported the incident to security staff. He described his attacker – whom he had seen earlier in a downstairs bar with six others – as Caucasian, aged in his 30s, 183cm, 90-100kg, bald head and…
Author: Bayside News
SHOPPERS who stay for more than three hours at Southland Shopping Centre will pay for parking from mid-October. Shopping centres operator Westfield has flagged the installation of a new parking system featuring licence plate recognition from 16 October. The first three hours of parking will be free and boom gates will rise automatically with no need for a ticket if a vehicle departs the centre car park within the three-hour time limit. The move to charge for parking if a vehicle stays on site for more than three hours comes as a new train station is due to be opened…
WOMEN “making a difference” were welcomed back to Mentone’s Kilbreda College last month for the school’s first annual “Past Pupils of Distinction Dinner”. Carol Gaston, Professor Judith Kinnear, Dr Mayumi Purvis attended the event on 4 August held in their honour. The Honourable Chief Justice Marilyn Warren was overseas and unable to attend. The four former students were chosen by a selection committee for “outstanding success in their lives and careers” and contributions towards “a positive difference in the lives of others” embodying Kilbreda College’s motto of “Strength and Kindliness”. Ms Gaston worked for the World Health Organisation and worked…
A BUS driver was interviewed by police and released pending further inquiries after a pedestrian was struck and killed in Mordialloc, Thursday 7 September. Police said a 67-year-old Mordialloc man was crossing Beach Rd from Centreway, 4.40pm, with the green light when he was struck by the turning bus on the crossing. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries but later died. The driver, 41, of Oakleigh, was taken to Mordialloc police station to be questioned about the incident. There were no passengers on the bus at the time. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone who witnessed the incident is…
POLICE arrested a woman in a car allegedly “crammed with stolen goods” after a house in Patterson Lakes was robbed, 4.45am, Saturday 9 September. Earlier, a neighbour had called 000 after she saw “shadowy figures” and heard noises in the Gladesville Blvd unit when she knew the owners were on holidays. A man was seen running away just before police arrived. Kingston detectives found the back door kicked in and the house ransacked. In the street, they allegedly found the woman in the car desperately trying to free her handbag which was pinned by goods allegedly stolen from the house.…