犯罪浪潮继续席捲维州

在过去的一周，我们看到的是更多家庭因青少年犯罪而受苦难的报导，许多罪犯都是获得保释后又重新犯案。

有位墨尔本的母亲，她与死神擦身而过，罪犯年仅 16岁，在其获得保释不到24 小时内，驾驶偷来的车辆，于道路逆向行驶并撞上那位母亲。侥倖生还是她不幸中的大幸，而让人觉得讽刺的是，该罪犯于去年 11 月也偷了一台 BMW，丝毫无悔意。

位于 Derrimut 地区的居民们，最近更开会讨论是否雇用保安来维护街道安全，此皆因最近有个少年犯罪团伙，手拿高尔夫球棍强行破坏入侵家庭犯罪。

在另起事件中，一位被保释的罪犯于保释后再次偷车，被警察追击时，该罪犯行驶时速高达每小时 150 公里，警察费尽九牛二虎之力抓获后，于法院中又再次获得保释而被释放。

种种犯罪实例，举不胜举，犯罪浪潮持续席捲维州。 Andrews 政府需要亡羊补牢，悬崖勒马，马上修法纠正之前放鬆法制和保释法的错误，让暴力和有危险犯罪纪录的人难以轻易保释危害邻里。

 

英文版/English version

Victoria’s crime wave continues

 

The past week has seen more reports of families beint terrorised by juvenile criminals, many of whom have been released on bail after previous charges.

 

A young Melbourne mother is lucky to be alive after she was hit by a stolen car driven by a 16 year old driving on the wrong side of the road, after the youth was released on bail just 24 hours earlier. The same offender also stole a BMW last November.

 

In the suburb of Derrimut, residents are talking about hiring a security guard to protect their streets, after a youth gang armed with golf sticks smashed their way into a home in the latest crime.

 

In another incident, an alleged car thief on bail was chased by police at speeds of up to 150kph and was finally caught, yet a court allowed him to go free on bail again.

 

With this crime wave continuing daily, the Andrews government needs to legislate urgently reverse its watering down of juvenile bail laws and make bail much harder to get for those with a record of violent or dangerous crime.