‘Stabber’ 89
An 89-year-old man has allegedly stabbed his carer multiple times at East Geelong.
Reports yesterday said police were investigating the incident after arresting the man, who allegedly left his 68-year-old victim with serious upper-body injuries.
Hague appeal
Karl Hague will appeal his conviction for murdering teenager Ricky Balcombe in Geelong’s Market Square 23 years ago, Hague’s lawyer has confirmed.
Hague began a 26-year jail term last month for the stabbing murder but will argue on appeal that new evidence demonstrated his conviction was unjust.
Ablett revelations
A failed Frank Costa bid to pay Gary Ablett Jnr outside the AFL salary cap after his return from the Gold Coast has emerged soon after the star’s wife revealed she was pregnant.
Fairfax reported on Thursday that the AFL rejected Mr Costa’s plan to pay Ablett for promoting a property development, with his wife revealing her pregnancy in a post on Instagram around 12 hours earlier.
Sultan returns
An Australian musician who cancelled a national tour in June after his “inexcusable and disrespectful” behaviour at a Cairns show will return to the stage at November’s Queenscliff Music Festival, organisers have announced.
Dan Sultan, whose management said would be off stage until he had completed a “full recovery”, was one of the first names revealed when the festival made its second line-up announcement on Thursday.
Bar sale
A cake shop that replaced a rug store perpetually on sale at the Geelong corner of Moorabool and Ryrie Sts has gone on the market seven months after opening.
The four owners have put a $40,000 price tag on Cake Bar after three of them, siblings Kaiser, Rose and Samantha Khater, won a mentorship package for a separate business on TV’s Shark Tank.
Journey’s over
A training company with around 140 workers in Geelong has gone to ground after closing multiple Victorian offices.
Journey Management Group pulled down its website and Facebook pages and left office phones either disconnected or unanswered this week after reports the company had gone into liquidation.
Bottlo ‘thieves’
Security cameras have snapped men allegedly involved in three separate thefts from bottle shops around Geelong.
Police appealed for information from the public after this week releasing images of three males wanted for questioning over the thefts at Geelong West, Newcomb and Corio Central Shopping Centre between 19 June and 12 July.
