Aneeka Simonis

2 months ago | heraldsun.com.au | Aneeka Simonis

A series of child abduction attempts remain unsolved as nervous parents return their kids to school for the year. Men in white vans who tried to take four children aged 10-15 from the streets of Melbourne in separate terrifying incidents in the final weeks of term four remain at large despite police efforts to locate them. Police have stressed they are hunting four individual suspects with no connection to each other.

2 months ago | news.com.au | Aneeka Simonis |Rebecca Borg

A series of child abduction attempts remain unsolved as nervous parents return their kids to school for the year. Men in white vans who tried to take four children aged 10-15 from the streets of Melbourne in separate terrifying incidents in the final weeks of term four remain at large despite police efforts to locate them. Police have stressed they are hunting four individual suspects with no connection to each other.

May 4, 2024 | news.com.au | Aneeka Simonis

A little girl facing an uncertain future is fighting her rare illness by staying “strong in her heart and brave in her head”. Four-year-old Sammi has spent more than three months in hospital battling an extremely rare lymphatic malformation, which is very difficult to treat and likely to be life-limiting.

Apr 18, 2024 | goldcoastbulletin.com.au | Aneeka Simonis

Violence against women and children at the hands of men is a worsening “national crisis” which requires men to stand up and prevent it, one of Australia’s most powerful judges has declared. Dozens of women have been killed in Australia in the first four months of 2024, with nine killed in the past 18 days alone – a rate of one woman every second day.

Mar 21, 2024 | news.com.au | Aneeka Simonis

A teenager on bail for violent offences lost his licence days before he ran a red light and killed 19-year-old disability support worker Darrell Chepseba in a horror Burwood East crash. Diesel Handley, then aged 18, was unlicensed and driving an unregistered car when he crashed into and killed Mr Chepseba, on a motorbike, at the intersection of Middleborough Rd and Burwood Hwy on January 6, 2023. Handley lost his learner permit for excessive speeding just three days before the crash.