20 years ago
April 7, 2000
The head of a religious cult operating in the Geelong region and at the centre of mass suicide fears has moved to defend the group in an exclusive interview with The Independent.
Order of St Charbel Geelong chapter leader Guido Colla said the order was devoted to “traditional Catholicism”.
15 years ago
April 8, 2005
Corio residents could remain in their homes if a nearby storage sphere containing butadiene gas exploded, a medical expert said yesterday.
Dr David Barton said the predicted level of gas in the atmosphere from a leak would not cause significant harm to people in nearby residential areas.
10 years ago
April 9, 2010
Council documents have cast doubt on the hopes of hundreds of shooters to relocate two homeless Geelong gun clubs to vacant farmland.
Geelong’s clay target and field and game clubs have submitted a joint planning permit to build a shooting range on more than 30 hectares on Old Boundary Road, Anakie.
5 years ago
April 10, 2015
A policeman charged with rape appeared in Geelong Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Phillip Gordon Shaw, a Western Region Victoria Police Leading Senior Constable, was initially charged with two counts of recklessly causing injury in February after a Professional Standards Command investigation.
* The rape charge was dropped against Shaw in December 2015 when he formally pleaded guilty at the Geelong Magistrates Court to two counts of unlawful assault
