Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
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Rising to say no to violence From lighting up Parliament House in Canberra to hundreds turning out to walk around Lillydale Lake, the Yarra Ranges community has risen to say no to gendered violence in their communities. The launch of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence occurred on Tuesday 25 November, seeing the influence of an Inner Wheel Club of Wandin member reach the country’s Parliament. Closer to home, the Walk Against Family Violence returned for a third year, with some of the region’s services banding together to help put an end to violence. See the full coverage on pages 10 - 12 Fvree’s Lisa and Women’s Health East’s Avega joined the Walk Against Family Violence in Lilydale on Thursday 27 November. (Stewart Chambers: 520464)
Appeal rejected By Oliver Winn The Supreme Court of Victoria has rejected the appeal of 25-year-old Anmoldeep Singh after he was sentenced for causing a fatal car crash in Wandin North two years ago. 20 November 2025, judges concluded Mr Singh’s four grounds of appeal weren’t successful, leaving Mr Singh to face the original sentence of three years and nine months in prison. In February 2023, the Uber driver and student was transporting two Uber passengers Jessica
Henning and Justin King to a wedding only a short distance away when he struck Jorja O’Connor’s car, causing it to hit an embankment. Ms O’Connor was with her grandfather Lewis Carnegie and her great uncle Peter Carnegie when the car was struck, killing the grandfather Lewis and seriously injuring the great uncle Peter. Mr Singh failed to stop at the intersection and was travelling at a speed of between 42-44km/h when he struck Ms O’Connor’s car. Mr Singh appealed on grounds of imprison-
ment exacerbating a mental health condition, his relative youth, the intersection’s design being the cause of the crash and the sentence being too excessive for his personal circumstances. But, judges rejected all four grounds of appeal. The judge rejected the evidence provided claiming Singh had suffered nine separate psychological disorders, as it was “expressed in quite adversarial, and subjective, terms”. The claim that the judge’s original sentencing didn’t take Singh’s age into account also failed -
it was found the judge actually had taken his age into account. With the a bunch of road signs, advance warnings and markings preceding the intersection, the judge concluded Mr Singh was to blame for his failure to stop. Since the purpose of the sentence was to reduce further incidents of dangerous driving, the judge concluded the sentence wasn’t excessive, thus this appeal also failed. Turn to page five to read more
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