Crime hub emerges amid murder hunt: [1 All-round Country Edition]
John Stapleton, Nick Leys. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Apr 2006: 8.
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In Canterbury-Bankstown, however, robbery without a weapon rose 22 per cent and robbery with a weapon other than a firearm jumped by 47.9per cent. Bankstown had a huge jump of 61.3 per cent in robberies with weapons other than firearms.
Police said the Greenfield Park man, a nightclub DJ who was Iraqi- born and of Assyrian descent, had been unknown to authorities. No drugs were found on Mr Audisho. His background and his association with an Assyrian club he visited during the day are being examined.
Police are investigating potential links to the Babylon Cafe murder and the Assyrian crime syndicate known as “dlasthr”. Task Force Gain investigates ethnic gangland murders in southwest Sydney. The Babylon Cafe was sprayed with bullets on October 31 last year, killing bystander Raymond Khananyah, 29, and wounding three men.
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THE Canterbury-Bankstown area in Sydney’s southwest has been singled out as a crime hotspot by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics.
Figures for 2003-05, released yesterday, show a significant drop in many types of serious crime — including robbery with a firearm, down 26.7per cent — while murder and sexual assault remained stable across the state.
In Canterbury-Bankstown, however, robbery without a weapon rose 22 per cent and robbery with a weapon other than a firearm jumped by 47.9per cent. Bankstown had a huge jump of 61.3 per cent in robberies with weapons other than firearms.
The statistics came as detectives from Task Force Gain widened the investigation into the shooting death of Ashoor Audisho, 21, at nearby Fairfield on Sunday night to examine links with a shooting at the suburb’s Babylon Cafe last year.
Police said the Greenfield Park man, a nightclub DJ who was Iraqi- born and of Assyrian descent, had been unknown to authorities. No drugs were found on Mr Audisho. His background and his association with an Assyrian club he visited during the day are being examined.
Police are investigating potential links to the Babylon Cafe murder and the Assyrian crime syndicate known as “dlasthr”. Task Force Gain investigates ethnic gangland murders in southwest Sydney. The Babylon Cafe was sprayed with bullets on October 31 last year, killing bystander Raymond Khananyah, 29, and wounding three men.
Task Force Gain Commander Detective Superintendent Mark Henney said witnesses confirmed three men had been involved in Sunday’s murder. Mr Audisho was seen arguing with the men before shots were fired.
The three men drove off in a black 1999 Jeep Cherokee, which was impounded from a house in Edensor Park, southwest Sydney.
Crime bureau director Don Weatherburn said the recent shootings were not counted in the new figures. But he said incidents involving shooting with intent to murder or inflicting grievous bodily harm had declined 43per cent across NSW between 2001 and last year.
“It’s too soon to say whether that trend is going to reverse itself,” he said. “January was a terrible month for murder but the February and March figures were right on the average.”
PROBLEM AREA
Rate of crime per 100,000 people in Canterbury-Bankstown, NSW
………………………………………………. 2003 …. 2004 …. 2005
Assault …………………………………… 697.4 … 650 …… 661.6
Domestic violence ……………………… 277.5 … 255.4 … 276.7
Robbery without weapon ……………… 139.1 … 104 …… 126.9
Robbery with weapon not a firearm … 96.5 ….. 61.2 ….. 90.5
Source: BOCSAR