Seven people charged following Port Melbourne incident

Armed Crime Squad detectives have charged seven people after a man was located with serious injuries in Port Melbourne this morning.

The five men and two women have each been charged with the following offences:

• reckless conduct endanger serious injury

• causing serious injury intentionally in circumstances of gross violence

• intentionally cause serious injury

• causing serious injury recklessly in circumstances of gross violence

• recklessly cause serious injury

• intentionally cause injury

• recklessly cause injury

• false imprisonment

• possess firearm

• possess prohibited weapon without exemption.

A 35-year-old man from Clayton South, was also charged with possessing a firearm while subject to a firearm prohibition order.

The six others charged include a 36-year-old Dandenong North man, a 38-year-old Vermont man, a 27-year-old Box Hill man, a 33-year-old Clayton South woman, a 34-year-old Springvale man and a 35-year-old Port Melbourne woman.

The charges follow reports of a serious assault on Dow Street, on Friday 16 May, about 4.55am.

Attending police discovered a 33-year-old man injured on a unit balcony. He was taken to hospital where he remains with serious injuries.

It is believed the people involved are known to one another.

Those charged have been held over to appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.

Sergeant Julie-Anne Newman

Media Unit

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