Stabbings rock Coast
A MAN has been stabbed in the stomach during a fight in a Gold Coast party precinct.
Queensland Police officers and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics, including the critical care and the high acuity response unit, were called to the disturbance in Clifford St, Surfers Paradise, about 10.20pm on Saturday.
Paramedics treated a man in his 20s who suffered a puncture wound to his abdomen, QAS said in a statement.
A police spokeswoman was not able to say whether a knife or a different weapon was used.
The injured man was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
No arrests had been made on Sunday and investigations were continuing.
The Saturday night incident follows an alleged stabbing in the heart of Surfers Paradise during an altercation early on Friday morning. A mother of eight from Boronia Heights faced Southport Magistrates Court later in the day. She was charged with wounding, grievous bodily harm, and failing to comply with COVID-19 public health directions.
Police alleged a fight broke out between a “large number of people” on The Esplanade.
A man was stabbed in his ribs with a knife, and a 17-yearold was also wounded in the fight, police alleged.
The man and the teen were taken to GCUH in a serious but stable condition.
A STABBING in the heart of the Gold Coast’s party precinct should not be a blase event.
Whatever the circumstance, a knife plunging into a person’s chest or stomach is moment of life-changing violence, the effects of which will flow on for years for those at the centre of any alleged incident whether it is fatal – as it has proven to be on multiple tragic occasions in recent times.
So it is a somewhat sad reflection on the times when the Gold Coast Bulletin contacted the Queensland police yesterday to ask for further clarification over the alleged stabbing of a man in Surfers Paradise, it was told the incident was described as “minor” and its staff were “a little bit caught up” in dealing with an alleged stabbing murder in Brisbane.
Understandable on many levels. The Brisbane stabbing was fatal. The Surfers stabbling, thankfully, was not.
While this alleged run-in itself may be minor, it is disconcerting to think that violence of this kind has now become so routine it would be described in such a cavalier fashion, especially given the spate of similar incidents in the city’s party precinct during the past year.
The stabbing death of Parkwood teenager Jack Beasley on the streets of Surfers Paradise in December 2019 was a stark reminder of a young life being lost in a moment of madness. and why similar events should not happen again.
Just five months later, another Gold Coast local, Nicholas Braid, aged 35, lost his life after being allegedly stabbed outside the Beachcomber resort.
Stabbings are never minor, much like coward punches. It is only dumb luck when it doesn’t not result in a more serious outcome.