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Sushi chef stabbing plunges Victoria into crime crisis · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's Biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Shocking footage of a young woman
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  Speaker 1: being stabbed in the chest in an unprovoked attack on
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  Speaker 1: a Melbourne city street has plunged the Victorian government into
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  Speaker 1: damage control mode. In the CCTV footage of an incident
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  Speaker 1: that happened on October two, a thirty six year old
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  Speaker 1: woman is walking down Little Burke Street just before eight
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  Speaker 1: am when a woman approaches her from behind, engages her
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  Speaker 1: in conversation and then attacks with a knife. The victim,
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  Speaker 1: One Lie, crumples to the pavement with a collapsed lung
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  Speaker 1: as her attacker runs away and strangers rush to help.
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  Speaker 1: One Lie is now recovering at home, but her family
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  Speaker 1: says she's terrified to leave the house. A thirty two
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  Speaker 1: year old woman who was out on bail at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the attack has now been arrested and charged
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  Speaker 1: with intentionally causing injury and committing an indictable offense while
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  Speaker 1: on bail. She's not been required to enter a plea.
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  Speaker 1: One Lie, a sushi chef, said in a statement, my
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  Speaker 1: familiar living environment no longer gives me the comfort I
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  Speaker 1: once had. I love this neighborhood and live there for
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  Speaker 1: over four years, but now because of this incident, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so scared that even the sound of footsteps behind me
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  Speaker 1: is dangerous. It comes after two boys were stabbed to
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  Speaker 1: death while walking home from a basketball game, and after
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  Speaker 1: an armed so called sovereign citizen shot two police officers
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  Speaker 1: dead and escaped into the bush, sparking a huge manhunt
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  Speaker 1: that's continuing. Premiegesin to allan already battling perceptions of a
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  Speaker 1: crime crisis, is seeking to downplay allegations the government sat
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  Speaker 1: on the footage for two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of the identification of victims and their perpetrator,
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  Speaker 2: they are very serious matters and we would not want
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  Speaker 2: to see anything occur that would obstruct justice being done
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  Speaker 2: in the matter of this sickening violent.
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  Speaker 1: E nine Entertainment has acted a colorful radio host, Peter Figan,
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  Speaker 1: from its Brisbane radio station four BC, after a ratings collapse.
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  Speaker 1: It comes amid a series of dramas at the network
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  Speaker 1: that have been closely covered by our Media Diary editor
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  Speaker 1: Steve Jackson, including raging speculation that one of the network's
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  Speaker 1: prime stars, today host Sarah Arbo, is about to be
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  Speaker 1: axed in favor of Samantha Armitage. Come back to the
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  Speaker 1: front on Monday for more on that intriguing TV drama.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, check out All our Journalism Live right
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  Speaker 1: now at Beaustralian dot com dot au.