A 26-year-old man is alleged to have attacked a woman with a knife before carjacking a white Mazda 4WD utility in a multi-story car park of a Belconnen shopping centre at 11.30am on Sunday.
During the altercation, a woman suffered a single stab wound to the arm, and was taken to hospital.
The stolen vehicle was sighted by police a short time later in Braddon, and the man was arrested about 11.50am in Ainslie following a short foot chase.
He has been charged with aggravated robbery, intentionally wounding a person, knife possession, two counts of failing to stop for police, two counts of dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.
Anyone who witnessed the aggravated robbery in Belconnen, or who may have dash-cam footage of the vehicle, should call 1800 333000 or on the Crime Stoppers ACT website.
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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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