Week-end of violence in Auckland

Press, 10 April 1978, Page 6

Week-end of violence in Auckland

PA Auckland In five separate incidents, six persons were victims of bashings in the Auckland | area at the week-end. Two of them are still tn hospital, one in a serious condition. As well, a teen-age girl: was also seriously ill with head injuries in the Auckland Hospital last evening) after falling from a car on I the North-West Motorway yesterday morning. It is believed she fell while she was trying to climb through the; car window after a struggle with the male driver. Two men. both aged 21. j were attacked by two other. men, one of them wedding a; knife, in a bus shelter near the Ellerslie Motor Inn Hotel ' on the main Ellerslie high-; way about 9.30 p.m. on Sat-)

One of the two suffered a ,6in stab wound in the chest. Last evening he was reported Ito be in a satisfactory condiItion in Greenlane Hospital. ■ His companion was stabbed in the back. He was disI charged from hospital after , treatment. An unidentified man was I found lying on the footpath I in Grafton Road about 6.30 I a.m. yesterday suffering from 'severe facial injuries. A police spokesman said the man almost certainly had I been beaten up. The man was unconscious when found by a i near-by resident and was ‘ taken "to the Auckland Hosipital. A man. aged 29, is believed i; to have lain unconscious for i at least three hours on the i front lawn of a house in Victoria Street. Otahuhu, after • being beaten and kicked ’about the head early on Sat-

urday. An Otahuhu C. 1.8. spokesman said the man had been attacked while walking. About $BO in cash was stolen from him. The man was found about 7.30 a.m. He was treated at Middlemore Hospital for cuts and bruises to the head, and later discharged. At Mangere East a woman in her 20s was awakened about 2 a.m. on Saturday by a man standing by her bed in a Greys Avenue flat. The Otahuhu police said that the man threatened the woman with violence before he allegedly raped her twice. A Green Bay youth was attacked by nine men at a Titirangi Road party on Friday evening according to his father. A passing motorist found the youth, aged 18, and took him to the Auckland Hospital, where it was discovered he had a broken jaw.