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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Police Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Malogorski on the bashing & robbing of a gentleman in a wheelchair · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now, Detective Senior Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Mark Malagrowski from the Serious Crime Squad. Good morning to you, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning Katie. How are you not too bad?
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  Speaker 2: Mate?
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  Speaker 1: Talk us through exactly what's gone on with this poor
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven year old wheelchair bound man having his home
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  Speaker 1: broken into overnight and being assaulted.
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  Speaker 3: It's about two forty five this morning. It appears four
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  Speaker 3: years between seventeen and twenty five years old have a
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  Speaker 3: tended place in Malac where they've confronted. They've pretended to
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  Speaker 3: break into the unit in Malac and have been confronted
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  Speaker 3: by the occupant, a sixty seven year old male who's
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  Speaker 3: just disabled, and as a result, they've forced their way
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  Speaker 3: into the residents and they've assaulted the male to his
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  Speaker 3: face and chest area. They've entered their residents and stolen
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  Speaker 3: a phone and the vehicle, the victim's keys and later
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  Speaker 3: off then they've ransacked the premises and then stolen his vehicle.
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  Speaker 3: The vehicle was then driven around Karama in a honing behavior,
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  Speaker 3: where it was then abandoned in Karama and police have attended.
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  Speaker 3: A crime scenes been established at the residence in Malac
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  Speaker 3: and the vehicle was tied back to Peter McCauley Center
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  Speaker 3: forensic examination.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness me is that man okay, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Being treated now for cuts and bruising to his face,
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  Speaker 3: arms and also bruising to his ribs. So he's receiving
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  Speaker 3: medical treatment as we speak. So hopefully we'll get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to speak to him this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, have you been able to get a hold of
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  Speaker 1: those youths, those four youths, they.
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  Speaker 3: Are outstanding at the moment. We've got forensic examinations on
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  Speaker 3: the vehicle and also the residents and hopefully we can
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  Speaker 3: get some good results of that. And we've got our
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  Speaker 3: detectives at the moment making inquiries. Donuts have been conducted
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  Speaker 3: of that area and we're in hot pursuit of these offenders.
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  Speaker 1: Did they know that this man was wheelchair bound?
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I can't say that they knew that at
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  Speaker 3: this stage. So yeah, it was quite a tragic incident
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  Speaker 3: for the man. So what we do want is any
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  Speaker 3: witnesses in the area that they've seen the vehicle, which
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  Speaker 3: was a red MASDA three that was seen hooting around
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  Speaker 3: the area, a Kurama and Malac between two forty five
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  Speaker 3: and three point thirty. Any witnesses call contact int police
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  Speaker 3: on one three one triple four Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Was that vehicle kitted out for this sixty seven year
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  Speaker 1: old who is wheelchair bound?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I believe it was adapted for the disabled man.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, goodness me, I don't. It makes me really cross
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  Speaker 1: hearing this story. I can't believe that you know that
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  Speaker 1: people pray upon somebody you know who's older, and particularly
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is disabled.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it sounds horrendous.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, it is. The matter has been treated very seriously.
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  Speaker 3: We have got investigators from the Crime division working now
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  Speaker 3: on it and hopefully we can have the offenders apprehended shortly.
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  Speaker 1: And Mate, you have said that that you know you
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  Speaker 1: guys are working incredibly hard on it. I have no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about that, and I know that you work incredibly
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  Speaker 1: fast on this kind of thing as well. But if
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  Speaker 1: anybody is out there listening, who's got any information which
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  Speaker 1: could assist what exactly are you after?
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  Speaker 3: After anything, we can get any witnesses that's seen, any suspects,
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  Speaker 3: descriptions of the persons in the area of around Carama
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  Speaker 3: and Malac between two thirty and three thirty, any siding
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  Speaker 3: of that vehicle around the streets, would be any information
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  Speaker 3: we can get contact in t plase on one three
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  Speaker 3: one two four.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark, I really appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you guys are really busy and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be working very fast on this. Oh look, our hearts
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  Speaker 1: go out to this sixty seven year old man. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that he is okay, and I hope that you're
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  Speaker 1: able to apprehend these offenders really quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, thank you, CODI thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time this morning. That is Detective Senior
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant there Mark Malagorski. And I tell you what, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get much lower than praying upon a sixty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old man in a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: To me, I just think it's the lowest of low.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there will be plenty of people out
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  Speaker 1: there listening, thinking exactly the same thing. Then to steal
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  Speaker 1: his vehicle, a red mas To three which has been
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  Speaker 1: kitted out and obviously been modified to be able to
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  Speaker 1: fit his wheelchair in there and be able to get
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  Speaker 1: him around as required.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to say. I just think it's horrendous.