THE driver of the white Toyota Landcruiser cleared off after allegedly ramming the back of a parked car in a Majura Park car park on Friday evening.
Police say a 31-year-old Banks man left the location and failed to provide details with the driver of the damaged Ford Falcon.
At about 1.40am on Saturday, a group of people were sitting in a Kingston front yard when three men approached them, including the 31-year-old Banks man, who is alleged to have struck one of the people in the face and back of the head with the hammer and repeatedly threatened them.
Police were called and found the men in the white Toyota Landcruiser in Kingston.
The 31-year-old was breath tested at the scene, returning a breath analysis reading of 0.144.
He has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, reckless threat to kill a person, damage property and driving-related charges. Police say further charges may be laid.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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