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The Cannington Yarn Bombers are contributing to a D Day 80th Anniversary commemorative work.

The Alderman title is the highest award that can be made to a former councillor.

The Alderman title is the highest award that can be made to a former councillor.

About 130 years ago, 19 to 21 Winchester Street was just a garden, which reached up to Southern Road.

Advertisement One of the three police officers who assaulted a disability pensioner outside his home also struck a teenage boy with his baton in another on-duty assault less than four months later, it can now reported. Florian Hilgart outside court in 2019. Credit:Eddie Jim Florian Hilgart and two colleagues were found guilty last year of unlawful assault over an excessive and unnecessary use of force on the disability pensioner, John, on his front lawn on September 19, 2017. John, 36 at the t...

Loading Apprehended and on the ground, Mr Goutzoulas was hit in the legs with a baton, punched in the stomach and pepper-sprayed, with an officer telling him: “Did you like that? Smells good doesn’t it?” Though he was subdued and handcuffed, Mr Goutzoulas was sprayed in the face with a high-pressure water hose. After the footage was published, IBAC charged Constable Edney and senior constables Brad McLeod and Florian Hilgart with assault. A court, while not recording a conviction, found t...

Two Victoria Police officers found guilty of unlawful assault for punching and hosing down a disabled pensioner have had their appeals thrown out in court. Senior constables Brad McLeod and Florian Hilgart were found guilty last year of a collective four charges of unlawful assault for blasting the victim, John, with a hose, using capsicum spray and punching the pensioner outside his Preston home in September 2017. The police members were conducting a welfare check on the man, who was 36 at the...

Advertisement A disability pensioner who was pinned down and arrested by six police officers outside his home sent a text message before the confrontation that he would give police a reason to shoot him, a court has heard. An image from CCTV showing police restraining John outside his Preston home in 2017. A magistrate found that while John was on the ground being restrained he was struck on the leg with a baton, punched in the stomach, had his head stood on and had capsicum spray used on him f...

Cops fight bashing guilty verdicts Victorian police officers Florian Hilgart and Brad McLeod arrive at the Heidelberg Magistrates Court in March last year. They were found guilty of assault and are appealing in the County Court. Picture: AAP Image/David Crosling News by Frances Vinall 8th Feb 2021 7:32 PM Two police officers found guilty of assaulting a disabled man withdrawing from pain medication maintain their actions were...