{"id":565456,"date":"2026-03-26T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:05:09","slug":"sixteen-year-old-girl-the-fifth-person-charged-over-death-of-aidan-becker-at-mernda-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565456\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old girl the fifth person charged over death of Aidan Becker at Mernda railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 16-year-old girl is the fifth person to be charged following the <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-07\/four-arrested-over-death-of-man-in-mernda-railway-station-fight\/106427586\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106427586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death of a 22-year-old man<\/a> at a train station in Melbourne&#8217;s outer north earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Homicide Squad detectives today charged a Pascoe Vale teenager with robbery, two counts of theft, hindering and assaulting police, and possessing a drug of dependence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She has been summonsed to appear before a children&#8217;s court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The charges follow the death of Aidan Becker, an off-duty security guard who died in an alleged stabbing attack while trying to protect a 14-year-old boy at Mernda railway station on March 6.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of Aidan Becker smiling\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774523109_326_161876dfce1597321a210231a65836c3.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Aidan Becker died at a Melbourne train station this month while trying to protect a teenage boy. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Becker was located with life-threatening injuries and was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-13\/aidan-becker-vigil-mernda-railway-station-death\/106453980\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106453980\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands gathered at Mernda station<\/a> for a vigil to honour him a week after his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have since arrested a 16-year-old, an 18-year-old and two 17-year-olds in relation to the incident, charging all four with murder and armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 18-year is due to appear at Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court on June 24, with the other three to face a children&#8217;s court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old girl is the fifth person to be charged following the death of a 22-year-old man at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[266806,64,63,2025,1300,49307,260823,44,48586],"class_list":["post-565456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aidan-becker","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charges","tag-death","tag-homicide-squad","tag-mernda","tag-news","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565456","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=565456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}