Vic: $1m bounty for Mokbel arrest justified - criminologist

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2007
Vic: $1m bounty for Mokbel arrest justified - criminologist

A $1 million reward has been offered in seven other Victorian murders:

- Elisabeth Membrey, 22, was last seen alive as she left for home from her job as a
waitress at a hotel in Ringwood, in Melbourne's north-east, shortly before midnight on
December 6, 1994;

- Mersina Halvagis, 25, who was murdered as she tended her grandmother's grave at Fawkner
Cemetery, in the city's north, on November 1, 1997;

- Jennifer Tanner, who was shot dead at her home at Bonnie Doon, in Victoria's north-east,
in 1984;

- Adele Bailey, whose body was found dumped in a Bonnie Doon mineshaft 10 years later;

- Sarah McDiarmid, who was abducted from Kananook railway station in Melbourne's south in 1990;

- Vicky Jacobs, who was shot in her bed as her young son slept beside her in their
home at Long Gully, a suburb of the central Victorian city of Bendigo, in 1999; and,

- Jane Thurgood-Dove, who in 1997 was shot dead in the driveway of her house in north-west
suburban Melbourne as her children watched.

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