Crime

  • Speeding drug-driver caught hiding in back yard

    A road worker had to jump out of the path of an unlicensed teenage driver on a drug-fuelled joy ride this week.

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  • Four days in prison for driver

    A Colac motorist who struck out with road police has lost his wheels and his drugs, and spent a few nights in lockup.

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  • Historic $10,000 window smashed at hall

    Winchelsea’s former shire hall has been vandalised and boarded up less than a week after closing its doors.

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  • Family safe after close calls with terror

    A COLAC district father is thankful his children are safe and well after members of his family were close to three headline-hitting crimes across the world.

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  • Explosives and fraud impact crime figures

    Two separate offenders have blown out Colac Otway’s deception and explosives crime figures after police charged both men with multiple offences in the past year.

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  • GO TO JAIL: Mother in prison over theft spree

    A COLAC woman will spend about two months in jail after pleading guilty to eight theft and attempted theft charges while on a community corrections order.

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  • BRUTAL ATTACK: Offender banned from pubs after attack

    A MAGISTRATE has called a Colac man a coward after he punched another man from behind at a Colac venue.

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  • MURDER MEMOIR: Writing helps daughter deal with dad’s murder

    A FORMER Colac woman has spoken of her surprise uncovering the background of the murder of her father 75 years ago.

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