ST KILDA, VIC. — Port Phillip Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) detectives yesterday charged a 48-year-old St Kilda man following the alleged assault of eight female victims in separate incidents in the vicinity of Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, between Sunday, August 30 and Wednesday, October 14.
Detectives understand the man approached the female victims aged between 20 and 53 years old.
Police will allege that in each incident, the man yelled obscenities at the women before fleeing the scene.
Police believe the alleged incidents were random attacks. None of the women were physically injured.
Officers arrested the 48-year-old St Kilda man at a Park Street residence yesterday.
He was interviewed and charged with a total of 33 offences, including two counts of making threats to kill, six counts of assault, six counts of the aggravated assault of a female, two counts of stalking another person and five counts of behaving in a riotous manner in a public place.
He was remanded to face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on December 8.
