{"id":476872,"date":"2026-02-13T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:45:11","slug":"kitchen-hand-charged-with-attempted-murder-stalking-over-alleged-stabbing-at-brisbane-leagues-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476872\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen hand charged with attempted murder, stalking over alleged stabbing at Brisbane leagues club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland police have charged a man with attempted murder after an alleged multiple stabbing at a rugby league club in Brisbane’s inner-south.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Easts Leagues Club on Main Avenue, Coorparoo, about 5:15pm on Thursday after reports of a “disturbance involving multiple people”.<\/p>\n

A 20-year-old female employee was found at the scene with stab wounds to her head and body, while a 61-year-old male employee sustained a stab wound to the abdomen.<\/p>\n

A member of the public \u2014 a 41-year-old woman \u2014 also suffered a laceration to her hand.<\/p>\n

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Police were called to the club after reports of a stabbing incident. (ABC News: Lucas Hill)<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old alleged attacker, Cameron William Leslie Clark, \u00a0also suffered a wound to his hand and is under police guard in hospital.<\/p>\n

He did not appear when the matter was briefly mentioned in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday morning and it has been\u00a0adjourned to Monday.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with multiple offences including attempted murder, unlawful stalking and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n

‘Confronting incident’<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said it was a confronting incident.<\/p>\n

He said the man \u2014 who worked as a kitchen hand \u2014 had been excluded from the workplace hours before the attack.<\/p>\n

“We’ll be alleging that there were some behaviours in the workplace that were inappropriate that was directed towards the 20-year-old victim by the offender,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He had been subject to an internal investigation due to his behaviour at work.”<\/p>\n

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Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham says it was a confronting incident. (ABC News: Lucas Hill)<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Massingham said the man arrived at the club about 5pm, allegedly concealing a large knife.<\/p>\n

“We will allege that the offender produced the knife and repeatedly stabbed and slashed a 20-year-old female employee whom he encountered initially in a hallway,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Those employees, those patrons of the club, went there yesterday to go about their daily work activities or to enjoy a meal at the club.<\/p>\n

“We were fortunate that we had a number of bystanders that overpowered the 33-year-old male, or…I think the outcome today would\u2019ve been very different.”<\/p>\n

‘Life altering event’<\/p>\n

A 61-year-old man employed as a chef was also injured during the alleged attack.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, the interactions of the chef only slowed the offenders progress but was enough for the girl to get away,” Detective Superintendent Massingham said.<\/p>\n

“She was set upon a second time…hence the defensive injuries and the injuries to the arm and head.”<\/p>\n

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Three people were injured during the alleged stabbing incident at the club. (ABC News: Lucas Hill)<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Massingham said it was a “life altering” event for all involved.<\/p>\n

“Those people that were physically injured, those people that witnessed the event, they will forever remember what occurred yesterday,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That young lady will take some time to get over what’s occurred, if at all.<\/p>\n

“What’s really important is that she’s in a really good place at the moment…and she’s been provided with all that support that’s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Massingham said police would oppose bail once the man appears in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland police have charged a man with attempted murder after an alleged multiple stabbing at a rugby league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-476872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}