By Charlene Gatt
AT 4PM on 5 October last year two men armed with firearms entered Seddon’s Bendigo Bank after pushing past a small child at the front door.
The men demanded money and threatened staff members with the firearms before stealing a large quantity of cash from a safe.
They were last seen heading down a side alley and into Vigo St.
The case is one of more than 70 unsolved crimes from the City of Maribyrnong area since 2005.
The cases include murders, assaults, missing people, car thefts, petrol theft and obscene exposure.
A large proportion of the unsolved crimes are armed robberies, such as the one that took place at Footscray train station on 19 June 2010.
A woman was standing on platform 1 around 6.30pm waiting for a city-bound train when a man approached her and held a broken bottle to her throat.
The man demanded money and she gave him some, then he demanded that she accompany him to an ATM. As the man began to walk away with the victim she ran away from him. The man then smashed the bottle on the ground before leaving the station and walking towards Irving St.
The attack was seen by up to 20 people, with a number of them going to the woman’s aid after the man fled.
The 2008 bombing of an ATM at Edgewater Meats along Maribyrnong’s Edgewater Boulevard has also yet to be resolved, as is the 2007 theft of a car, guitars and amplifiers from Daddy Cool guitarist Ross Hannaford in Yarraville.
At about 1.30am on 13 October 2007 Mr Hannaford parked his white 1989 Toyota Hi-Ace Van with registration number QRN479 in a Yarraville street.
He discovered the car and equipment gone when he went to check on it at 8am the following day.
Anyone with any information about an unsolved crime is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. All calls are anonymous.
