/ 30 April 2024

A brutal attack

Image source: AAP
Image source: AAP

A Perth grandmother was allegedly brutally bashed by a freed immigration detainee in a violent home invasion, police claim. Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan was refused bail yesterday over the attack and robbery, in which he allegedly posed as a police officer with 2 other men to get into the Girrawheen home of 73yo cancer patient Ninette Simons. Doukoshkan, from Kuwait, is one of 154 detainees released from detention last November in a controversial ruling by the High Court of Australia. Police claim the men tied up Simons’ husband and then violently assaulted her before stealing jewellery and other valuables worth $200K, which she says were their “life savings”. “I thought I was dying… I don’t know how I survived this at my age,” she told Nine News. The Albanese Government hasn’t yet commented but reports say the incident will add pressure to its agenda of fast-tracking preventative detention orders.

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