{"id":65085,"date":"2026-08-04T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/65085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:08:21","slug":"footage-shows-heidelberg-hit-and-run-suspect-who-stole-mans-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/65085\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage shows Heidelberg hit-and-run suspect who stole man’s car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have released CCTV images of a person suspected of running over a man who was trying to stop his car from being stolen in Melbourne’s north-east on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

A 68-year-old Heidelberg West resident, whom neighbours said was named George, suffered critical injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said he underwent life-saving surgery overnight but remains in a critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The victim has received some incredibly traumatic injuries, some life-threatening injuries,” Detective Acting Inspector Paul Lineham from the Major Crash Investigation Unit said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve spoken to the family this morning, they are absolutely traumatised with the events that happened on Saturday night.”<\/p>\n

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Acting Inspector Paul Lineham says he has “absolutely no doubt” the woman knows she ran the victim over.\u00a0 (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said the man was struck by his black Honda SUV as he tried to stop an unknown female from stealing the vehicle.<\/p>\n

“Here’s a man that’s turned up \u2014 after a night out \u2014 turns up at home, walks into the sanctuary of his own house, somebody comes in steals his car,” Acting Inspector Lineham said.<\/p>\n

“He confronts that person \u2026 and they run him over and leave him for dead.”<\/p>\n

Police urge woman to hand herself in<\/p>\n

In footage released by Victoria Police, a woman can be seen walking along a footpath carrying a bag on the opposite side of the street from the man’s house.<\/p>\n

Acting Inspector Lineham said the woman was seen “loitering” around the area prior to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said she was looking over fences and into cars for what appears to be “the perfect opportunity” to steal something. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Police say the person who allegedly stole the man’s car has not been found. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n

The woman appears to be looking at her phone and pauses on the footpath for a few moments before walking towards the house.<\/p>\n

The man’s car can be seen in the driveway with its headlights on and at least one door open.<\/p>\n

Acting Inspector Lineham said the car was at the house for about 1 minute before it was stolen and the keys were not in the car at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He appealed to the woman to hand herself in.<\/p>\n

“Don’t wait to be arrested to decide that you’re now going to show some remorse,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If you are truly remorseful, if you have any shred of decency at all, hand yourself in now and let yourself be known to police.”<\/p>\n

The woman is described as approximately 40 years old, Caucasian, of slim build and with long dark hair.<\/p>\n

At the time of the incident she was wearing a white hooded knee-length jacket, dark-coloured leggings, and white shoes.<\/p>\n

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Police have released an image of the stolen vehicle, a Black Honda CR-V which has registration number AXA625. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n

“[I can] appreciate at the time when these circumstances happen there’s a certain level of panic involved, the time for panic is over,” Acting Inspector Lineham said.<\/p>\n

He said the woman and the stolen Honda with the licence plate number AXA625 had not been found.<\/p>\n

“If anybody knows this person or is actively assisting this person you are also committing offences as well,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police have asked anyone with information or footage related to the incident to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n

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Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives attended the scene of the incident in Heidelberg West. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The victim, George, was described by neighbour, Kim Tripitiris, as “an old knockabout” who was adored by the local community.<\/p>\n

“We love George around here, he’s very important to us,” she said.<\/p>\n

“He loved his cars \u2026 he was just a lovely down-to-earth guy, and no-one deserves this.”<\/p>\n

Ms Tripitiris and her partner performed CPR on their neighbour after the incident, after they were alerted by the sounds of screaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released CCTV images of a person suspected of running over a man who was trying to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,201,75336,5854,9705,1047,18149],"class_list":["post-65085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-cctv","tag-heidelberg-west","tag-hit-run","tag-injury","tag-police","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}