DUNKLEY federal MP Chris Crewther has revealed he has Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder featuring involuntary vocal and movement tics. The Liberal MP helped launch the Parliamentary Friendship Group of Tourette Syndrome in Canberra last week and said he personally had suffered from Tourettes before its diagnosis. “I have Tourette’s. This is the first time I have raised this publicly, or in any job, or beyond close friends and family,” he said in Parliament last Wednesday (9 November). “Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder. It consists of vocal and motor tics, that is, rapid, repetitive and involuntary muscle movements. “For…
Author: Bayside News
A WEDDING party leaving their reception at a Frankston hotel was spat upon and punched by three men in the street, 10.30pm, Saturday 5 November. Senior Sergeant Phillip Hulley, of Frankston police, said the group was crossing Wells St on their way to a Nepean Hwy motel when the men allegedly threw bottles, punched and spat at them. The groomsman – the groom’s brother, aged 27, of Flemington – was allegedly punched twice to the head in the scuffle and had to be taken to Frankston Hospital with concussion, lacerations and bruising. A 26-year-old Carrum Downs man has been charged…
A BOY and girl aged 14 were arrested in Frankston North last week on car theft charges. Sergeant Duncan McGorrery, of the Shadow Taskforce, praised an observant neighbour who alerted police to two cars – a Mitsubishi Outlander and a Mazda 2 – parked around the corner from the children’s house, Thursday 3 November. In a boon to police, the neighbour was also able to name the Caucasian offenders and point out where they lived. Sgt McGorrery visited the house which he said was occupied by about 10 teens of similar ages and a single mother. He arrested the pair…
FIVE offenders forced their way in to the Coles supermarket in Patterson Lakes early Friday (4 November) and stole $17,500 cash and a quantity of cigarettes. CCTV footage shows the five men wearing hoodies, gloves and masks forcing open the front electronic door of the store in Gladesville Blvd, 2.18am, and using a metal bin to hold it open. While one man waited in the getaway car, two men used an angle grinder and a jemmy bar to break open a self-service register, stealing the cash, while the other two jemmied open cigarette drawers and used a plastic bin to…
TWO 18-year-olds allegedly stole a $250,000 Bentley from a Doncaster house and drove it to Cheltenham before crashing into a brick fence in Cheltenham, 9.30am Sunday morning (6 November). The pair, of Pakenham, are alleged to have forced open a garage door to steal the 2007 model luxury sedan from The Boulevard before driving it 22km to its crash point on the corner of Chesterville Rd and Argus St. Police in an unmarked car followed them from a distance as they drove south along Nepean Hwy and were awaiting back-up from the Air Wing and ground units before intercepting them.…