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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Woodbrook attacks, assaults, robberies on the increase

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RHONDOR DOWLAT-ROSTANT
2061 days ago
20191204
Many of the attacks go unreported to the police.

Many of the attacks go unreported to the police.

GUARDIAN

Over the past five years there have been over 100 at­tacks against res­i­dents of Wood­brook.

The lat­est at­tacks were a home in­va­sion where an 85-year-old woman was bru­tal­ly beat­en along with her am­putee son, a rob­bery and an at­tempt­ed rape.

Over one week ago, a group of thieves en­tered a house via an al­ley near Pe­tra Street where they made their way in­to the home of the el­der­ly woman. The woman, who was in the bath­room at the time was bad­ly beat­en and had sev­er­al blows to the head with a gun butt. Her son, who had one of his legs am­pu­tat­ed re­cent­ly, was in his room when they en­tered and al­so at­tacked him. The men de­mand­ed mon­ey and man­aged to leave with an undis­closed amount of cash, in­clud­ing US cur­ren­cy and a vault that con­tained im­por­tant doc­u­ments in­clud­ing birth cer­tifi­cates. Their im­ages were cap­tured on home sur­veil­lance cam­eras and their im­ages sent vi­ral on so­cial me­dia in the hope that they are iden­ti­fied and their re­spec­tive where­abouts be re­port­ed to the po­lice so that they can be ar­rest­ed and brought to jus­tice.

Al­so, a few days ago, about sev­en o’clock one week­day morn­ing a busi­ness­woman was con­front­ed just out­side her house and dragged to the back of her home where an at­tempt­ed as­sault was made. She, how­ev­er, man­aged to es­cape and ran out on­to the road­way for help. Her as­sailant grabbed her bag in­stead and ran off.

An­oth­er el­der­ly per­son was held up in his home and robbed.

Sev­er­al re­ports have been lodged at the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion and of re­cent times, res­i­dents have seen an in­crease in po­lice pa­trols in the area.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia, res­i­dent and new­ly elect­ed coun­cil­lor June Durham con­firmed that there have been sev­er­al home in­va­sions, rob­beries and at­tacks in the area but ad­mit­ted that many go un­re­port­ed to the po­lice.

She, how­ev­er, not­ed that soon there will be “bright lights” in­stalled along streets in a bid to prop­er­ly il­lu­mi­nate the streets at night time and the es­tab­lish­ment of “watch groups” where what’s app chats will be cre­at­ed so that res­i­dents can send alerts to each oth­er.


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