18 people charged with 28 counts of non-sexual violence offences last month

18 people were charged with a total of 28 counts of non-sexual violence offences in August, including a 55-year-old man, who was charged with an act with intent to cause grievous harm to his 5-year-old stepdaughter.

According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), the accused person allegedly wounded the child by hitting her back with a cane knife.

The DPP says there were 14 victims of the 28 counts of non-sexual violence offences.

There were six incidents where the accused and the victim were related to one another.

A 48-year-old man was charged with the murder of his 76-year-old father, where the accused person allegedly stabbed his father multiple times, which resulted in his death.

A 33-year-old man was charged with an act with intent to cause grievous harm to his 34-year-old de facto partner.

The accused person allegedly wounded the victim with a spade.

The accused person is also charged with breach of DVRO and breach of a suspended sentence.

There was one incident where a 34-year-old man was charged with an act with intent to cause grievous harm and attempted arson.

The accused person allegedly wounded his 39-year-old brother with a spade and attempted to set the brother’s house on fire.

A 25-year-old man was charged with an act with intent to cause grievous harm to a 48-year-old man where the man allegedly punched and kicked the victim over a disagreement.

There was one incident where a 44-year-old man was charged with assault, causing actual bodily harm to his de facto partner, and the man was also charged with one count of aggravated burglary and criminal intimidation.

Cash and assorted items were stolen during the alleged aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary offences, which consisted of house and shop break-ins, garage break-ins, and day and night street muggings.

There was one incident where a 24-year-old man, a 34-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were charged with one count of aggravated robbery where they allegedly robbed a 14-year-old boy of his mobile phone.

A 31-year-old man was charged with one count of unlawful cultivation and one count of unlawful possession of illicit drugs, where he allegedly cultivated 94 plants of cannabis sativa and was also found in possession of 3068.3 grams of cannabis sativa.

In another incident, a 30-year-old man was charged with one count of unlawful cultivation of illicit drugs. The accused person allegedly cultivated 347 plants of cannabis sativa.

One case was withdrawn after a discontinuance (Nolle Prosequi) was filed due to insufficient evidence.