ACT Policing is renewing its appeal for witnesses to the aggravated robbery of the Mawson Club on Monday, 8 August 2016.
ACT Policing’s investigations are ongoing with police releasing CCTV footage of the robbery and urge anyone who may be able to identify the offender to come forward.
About 4am, a man entered the Mawson Club on Heard Street and proceeded through the building threatening two staff members with a weapon, demanding cash. Staff complied with the man’s request and the offender then fled on foot through the rear of the building and through a carpark.
ACT Policing attended and members of the Australian Federal Police Forensic Services examined the scene.
The offender was described as being a man of solid build, about 186cm (6’1”) tall with an Australian accent. He was wearing a black balaclava, all black clothing and black shoes.
Police are urging anyone who may have any information that could assist police to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website. Please quote reference 5996492. Information can be provided anonymously.
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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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