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<\/p>\nPolice have released images of a woman they believe was tasked to kidnap another woman in the regional Victorian town of Warrnambool earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Police say a 33-year-old woman was walking home from work on Willow Tree Lane on July 7 about 4.30pm when another woman grabbed her from behind and pushed her into a car.<\/p>\n
The victim managed to fight off her attacker, but the offender stole her phone and drove south away from the scene.<\/p>\n
Authorities have established that the 2016 Hyundai i30 used in the attack was a hire car.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said they believe the woman was tasked with the crime by a man who lives overseas and is known to the victim.<\/p>\n
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Police say the attacker was a blonde woman aged in her 20s or 30s. (ABC News: Abbey Haberecht)<\/p>\n
The female offender is described as Caucasian, aged between 20 and 30 years old with blonde curly hair.<\/p>\n
She was wearing a black hoodie and pink hiking pants during the incident.<\/p>\n
“We’ve done a lot of work and progressed our investigation; however, we’re now at a stage where we need assistance from the public,” Detective Acting Sergeant Joe Fisher said.<\/p>\n
“This was a targeted incident in which we believe the woman involved was tasked by a man linked to the victim.”<\/p>\n
Detective Acting Sergeant Fisher said he couldn’t go into detail on who they believe the individual who ordered the kidnapping may be.<\/p>\n
“We believe we know who he is, and he appears to be offshore,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Our aim today is to identify the woman involved, and we believe someone will know who she is.<\/p>\n
“The victim was very brave, and I thank goodness she was able to get away. Luckily, she was not seriously injured.”<\/p>\n
Investigators have released CCTV of the vehicle driving on Koroit, Hyland and Giffen streets, and Raglan Parade in the hour following the incident.<\/p>\n
Detectives are appealing for more CCTV and dash cam vision from motorists who might have been in the street or the surrounding area at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released images of a woman they believe was tasked to kidnap another woman in the regional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1108,48,63513,56135,44,191319,12632],"class_list":["post-811080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-family-violence","tag-kidnapping","tag-news","tag-warrnambool","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811080","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=811080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}