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An 81-year-old Perth woman has spoken of her shock at being assaulted in a shopping centre car park by a man who accused her of scratching his car.
The woman, who wants to be known as Betty, says she was in Maddington on Saturday morning helping her daughter unload shopping from a trolley when she heard a man shouting at her.
She says the man told her the trolley had hit his car.
"Without any other words, just turned and put his fist up and let me have it in the chest," she said.
"I must have fallen on my elbow mostly because that's a bruise and you know I've taken skin off and also my ankle's got skin off.
"And he's still ranting at me even though he's standing over the top of me."
A 40 year old Gosnells man has been charged with Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm and is due to appear in court on Friday.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
DPP appeals Baby Grace Moorby death driver sentence
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JAIL terms for drivers who kill may be low because of a "pattern of inappropriate sentences", a WA judge said today.
At an appeal hearing over the sentence given to drunk driver Benjamin Alan Butler, who killed 11-month-old girl Grace Moorby, Justice Christine Wheeler said the lowest jail sentence in similar cases might be too low.
The Director of Public Prosecutions Robert Cock has appealed the 44-month jail term handed to Butler, 25, last November after he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Butler had a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit when the Holden Monaro he was driving smashed into the Moorbys' Thornlie house about 1pm on April 18 last year.
Butler attempted to pass two cars on Berehaven Ave at high speed but clipped one and crashed into the house, striking Mrs Moorby and baby Grace as she was being wheeled in a pram outside.
Grace, who was found under bricks, died at the scene. Police recorded a blood alcohol level for Butler of 0.166.
District Court judge Richard Keen sentenced him to two years 10 months jail for causing Grace's death and an extra 10 months for the injuries to Mrs Moorby.
Today, the court heard jail terms for dangerous driving causing death ranged from two to nearly seven years.
Justice Wheeler, who was one of the three sitting appeal judges, said the range might be low as a ``result of a pattern of inappropriate sentences over a period of time’’.
But she said Butler’s crimes would have been considered worse if he had driven and killed Grace on the night of his extensive drinking and not the day later.
DPP prosecutor Ken Bates today argued that the sentence was manifestly inadequate because while Judge Keen said the crimes were at the higher end of the scale, the sentence was at the lower end.
Butler’s lawyer John Prior said the term should stand as the judge took into account the time in jail was in line with the sentencing range and his client’s youth, his previous good character and remorse.
``There was genuine remorse, real remorse, separate from his plea of guilty,’’ Mr Prior said.
The judges reserved their decision on the appeal.
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Govt defends dumping solar rebate
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Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has defended his decision to pull the Government's $8,000 solar panel rebate.
The Government surprised retailers and customers yesterday by announcing the rebate would end at midnight last night, three weeks earlier than expected.
Some retailers extended their opening hours last night to allow customers time to get the necessary paperwork through.
Mr Garrett says the industry was given plenty of warning that the rebate system would end.
"The industry has known not only from the time that there would be a transition to solar credits," he said.
"But also since that period of time that the Government would want to see a transition to solar credits and that the rebate was running at levels which were very, very clearly providing a significant amount of work for the industry which it still hadn't undertaken."
Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the Coalition has been supportive of moves to change the incentive scheme for renewable energy products.
But he says the surprise move to dump the solar panel rebate makes it hard to have confidence in the Government's plans.
"We are very sympathetic to the goal of a stronger renewable energy target," he said.
"We'd like to see the legislation, we want to be constructive.
"We do, of course, have concerns that Mr Garrettt, overnight, has broken the COAG announcement, broken their Budget promise and thrown the solar sector into chaos."
Greens Senator Christine Milne has criticised the Government for dumping the rebate scheme before changes to its renewable energy incentive scheme are approved.
"We certainly support a renewable energy target but we'd like to see one much higher than the Government is aiming for," she said.
"So, it's arrogant in the extreme for the Government to go ahead, change the system overnight before it has even been debated in the Senate where changes may well be made."
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Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has defended his decision to pull the Government's $8,000 solar panel rebate.
The Government surprised retailers and customers yesterday by announcing the rebate would end at midnight last night, three weeks earlier than expected.
Some retailers extended their opening hours last night to allow customers time to get the necessary paperwork through.
Mr Garrett says the industry was given plenty of warning that the rebate system would end.
"The industry has known not only from the time that there would be a transition to solar credits," he said.
"But also since that period of time that the Government would want to see a transition to solar credits and that the rebate was running at levels which were very, very clearly providing a significant amount of work for the industry which it still hadn't undertaken."
Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the Coalition has been supportive of moves to change the incentive scheme for renewable energy products.
But he says the surprise move to dump the solar panel rebate makes it hard to have confidence in the Government's plans.
"We are very sympathetic to the goal of a stronger renewable energy target," he said.
"We'd like to see the legislation, we want to be constructive.
"We do, of course, have concerns that Mr Garrettt, overnight, has broken the COAG announcement, broken their Budget promise and thrown the solar sector into chaos."
Greens Senator Christine Milne has criticised the Government for dumping the rebate scheme before changes to its renewable energy incentive scheme are approved.
"We certainly support a renewable energy target but we'd like to see one much higher than the Government is aiming for," she said.
"So, it's arrogant in the extreme for the Government to go ahead, change the system overnight before it has even been debated in the Senate where changes may well be made."
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Man charged after woman, 81, attacked in carpark
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POLICE have charged a man after an assault on an elderly woman in the carpark of a Maddington shopping centre on Saturday.
Gosnells police were conducting routine foot patrols of the shopping centre about 11.30am when a member of the public told them an assault had just taken place in the carpark.
When officers arrived at the scene they saw a number of people shouting at a man being taken away by security staff, and an elderly woman lying on the ground receiving first aid from members of the public.
It will be alleged the man assaulted the 81-year-old woman after her shopping trolley touched the front of his vehicle.
After being struck by the man, it is believed the woman fell backwards to the ground and sustained lacerations.
She appeared to be in shock and was having difficulty breathing, and was taken to Armadale Hospital by St John Ambulance for treatment to her injuries.
The offender was removed from the immediate vicinity for his own protection.
A 40-year -ld man from Gosnells has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and will appear in the Armadale Magistrates Court on Friday.
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POLICE have charged a man after an assault on an elderly woman in the carpark of a Maddington shopping centre on Saturday.
Gosnells police were conducting routine foot patrols of the shopping centre about 11.30am when a member of the public told them an assault had just taken place in the carpark.
When officers arrived at the scene they saw a number of people shouting at a man being taken away by security staff, and an elderly woman lying on the ground receiving first aid from members of the public.
It will be alleged the man assaulted the 81-year-old woman after her shopping trolley touched the front of his vehicle.
After being struck by the man, it is believed the woman fell backwards to the ground and sustained lacerations.
She appeared to be in shock and was having difficulty breathing, and was taken to Armadale Hospital by St John Ambulance for treatment to her injuries.
The offender was removed from the immediate vicinity for his own protection.
A 40-year -ld man from Gosnells has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and will appear in the Armadale Magistrates Court on Friday.
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Man admits raping woman on two separate occasions
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A man has pleaded guilty in court to sexually assaulting a woman in Perth on two separate occasions.
In the District Court in Perth Lawrence Henry Quartermaine admitted six charges including sexual penetration without consent and aggravated burglary.
He broke into the woman's home in Maddington in March 2003 and raped her. He repeated the offence three weeks later.
Quartermaine originally pleaded not guilty to the offences but changed his pleas today after his victim testified in court yesterday.
He is due to be sentenced in August.
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A man has pleaded guilty in court to sexually assaulting a woman in Perth on two separate occasions.
In the District Court in Perth Lawrence Henry Quartermaine admitted six charges including sexual penetration without consent and aggravated burglary.
He broke into the woman's home in Maddington in March 2003 and raped her. He repeated the offence three weeks later.
Quartermaine originally pleaded not guilty to the offences but changed his pleas today after his victim testified in court yesterday.
He is due to be sentenced in August.
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Man charged with sex assault
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A 54-year-old Gosnells man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 39-year-old man.
Police allege Garry Michael Narkle committed the assaults in January this year in the Perth suburb of Queens Park.
He has been charged with three counts of sexual penetration without consent and two of indecent assault.
He is due to appear in court tomorrow.
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A 54-year-old Gosnells man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 39-year-old man.
Police allege Garry Michael Narkle committed the assaults in January this year in the Perth suburb of Queens Park.
He has been charged with three counts of sexual penetration without consent and two of indecent assault.
He is due to appear in court tomorrow.
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Narkle charged over sex attack
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9th June 2009, 15:45 WST
Garry Michael Narkle has been charged with sexually assaulting a 39-year-old man after an attack earlier this year.
Sex Crime Division officers have charged Narkle, 54, of Gosnells, in relation to an alleged attack at a Queens Park home on January 24.
Narkle was arrested today and charged with three counts of sexual penetration without consent and two counts of indecent assault.
He is due to appear in Perth Magistrate’s Court tomorrow.
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9th June 2009, 15:45 WST
Garry Michael Narkle has been charged with sexually assaulting a 39-year-old man after an attack earlier this year.
Sex Crime Division officers have charged Narkle, 54, of Gosnells, in relation to an alleged attack at a Queens Park home on January 24.
Narkle was arrested today and charged with three counts of sexual penetration without consent and two counts of indecent assault.
He is due to appear in Perth Magistrate’s Court tomorrow.
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