Bec Judd has launched another attack on Victorian authorities, expressing her anger at violent criminals walking free.
The influencer is on a crusade to reduce crime rates in Melbourne, particularly in her upmarket suburb of Bayside, and is becoming a thorn in the side of Jacinta Allan’s state government.
In her latest post, Bec expressed anger that one of the youths involved in the kidnapping of Melbourne teenager Benjamin Phikhohpoom that left him with permanent brain damage had walked free despite pleading guilty.
“Victoria, this is not right, but sadly it is just another case of a violent criminal walking free because our laws are weak,” Bec wrote on social media.
She then highlighted a response she had received from one of her followers, which read: “Maybe the victims should take this to civil court, which will NOT be as lenient. And maybe a case could be filed against the judge in civil court?”
Bec continued: ‘I get hundreds of direct messages like this. People are very angry with magistrates, but confused by the legal process. I would love to better understand how much the law influences the decision on a sentence versus the discretion of the magistrate themselves.
‘If you are a legal expert and can explain this in layman’s terms so I can share it with my audience, please DM me (I will protect my identity). Victorians are angry. They are also confused by the decision-making. Is the government to blame, the magistrates, the attorney general, etc.? Thank you.’
Benjamin suffered life-changing injuries when a group of three teenagers allegedly bundled him into a stolen car at around 3.30pm outside Glen Eira College in Melbourne’s south-east last September.
Bec Judd has launched another attack on Victorian authorities, expressing her anger at violent criminals walking free.
A 15-year-old boy accused of being part of the alleged kidnap and assault of schoolboy Benjamin Phikhohpoom (pictured) has had serious charges dropped in exchange for a guilty plea.
The group, two boys and a girl, were allegedly armed with machetes and demanded that he hand over his phone and belongings.
He was then allegedly run over by the car and dragged for 150 metres before being allegedly stabbed and then run over again when he was thrown from the vehicle.
Passersby found Benjamin vomiting blood and he was rushed to hospital, where he spent six days in a coma with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
However, a plea agreement reached with prosecutors allowed charges of intentionally causing serious injury and reckless conduct to be dropped.
Benjamin’s mother, Wannisa Srichan, said that while there had been some justice, the family was “still very sad about the outcome.”
“What this boy did was very serious and affected my son greatly,” she said. Herald of the Sun.
‘I heard the court case today and it was very hard… My son is still affected by this, he is struggling.
“It’s been almost 10 months and we are so angry that our family had to go through this, Benjamin did not deserve this.”
The accused teenager had spent 43 days in pre-trial detention before being released on bail in October.
Benjamin spent six days in a coma (pictured) after suffering a fractured skull and a brain haemorrhage when he was dragged 150 metres from a stolen car driven by the group.
Benjamin’s family said it was difficult to hear the details of the courtroom statement.
Last month, Bec slammed Melbourne as “woke, poor and violent” after residents were encouraged to put Apple AirTags in their cars amid a crime wave in the city.
The football WAG, who lives in a $7.3million mansion in Brighton, was drawn to comment on an interview between 3AW radio’s Jacqui Felgate and Sandringham Liberal MP Brad Rowswell.
During the talk, Mr Rowswell was asked about the rise in violent crime in Melbourne’s suburbs.
At a community safety forum in Beaumaris last Thursday, the MP was asked about a suggestion that residents consider placing AirTag trackers inside their cars in case they were stolen, something Judd disagreed with.
“Melbourne, this is sad. We’re up, broke and violent. I can’t believe we’re living like this,” Judd wrote online.
In March, Judd called out Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan after a home invasion in Bayside left an elderly man fighting for his life.
Three offenders broke into a house in Beaumaris, a stone’s throw from Judd’s mansion, where they attacked the man.
Jacinta Allan has been under pressure to make changes to sentencing laws
His 75-year-old wife, who was also at home at the time, was not injured. Nothing is believed to have been stolen.
“Just another night in Victoria (yes, this is Bayside again, but we know this happens everywhere),” Judd told her Instagram followers at the time.
‘Jacinta Allan, how do you keep avoiding this? Let’s see how many of the alleged offenders are out on bail… Our thoughts are with the victim in ICU and his poor wife.’
In June 2022, Judd said she felt “unsafe” in her mansion and was “so fed up with the rapes, assaults and home invasions at the hands of the Bayside gangs.”
“I personally know two women who have had their homes invaded in Brighton in recent weeks while they were at home,” she said.
She also reposted CCTV footage showing a gang of youths lurking outside properties in her affluent suburb and claimed it made her feel “unsafe”.
Last year, he reiterated his claim that Melbourne’s elite suburbs are under siege by criminals and “machete-wielding thugs” and called for changes to youth crime laws.
She and husband Chris share four children: daughter Billie, nine, son Oscar, 12, and twins Darcy and Tom, seven.
