Four teenagers have been arrested over an assault in a shop in Melbourne’s west that left a retail worker in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
Investigators say two boys, aged 13 and 15, and two girls, aged 14 and 15, entered a shop on Hampshire Road in Sunshine just after 2pm on Saturday and stole items.<\/p>\n
When two staff members attempted to confront the four teenagers, a physical altercation broke out.<\/p>\n
One of the staff members, a 60-year-old man, sustained serious injuries during the incident.<\/p>\n
The man was transported to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
All four teenagers have since been arrested by police, and are expected to be interviewed by detectives.<\/p>\n
The serious assault comes just days after new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll pledged to increase safeguards for retail workers in the state.<\/p>\n
“We are putting workers front and centre,” Mr Carroll said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“And that begins with protecting them.”<\/p>\n
The government introduced laws last year that increased the penalty for assaulting or threatening workers in hospitality and retail to a maximum of five years.<\/p>\n
Mr Carroll this week announced the introduction of workplace protection orders enabling businesses to ban aggressive customers from their premises.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four teenagers have been arrested over an assault in a shop in Melbourne’s west that left a retail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,24278,25653,64,63,48,44,1158,5216,9963],"class_list":["post-837914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-police","tag-retail","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837914","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=837914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}