TWO ATTACKS IN TWO MONTHS
THE manager of a Cranbrook retirement village is “livid” after two residents were attacked in as many months.
One is a victim of an alleged assault, the other of an alleged car-jacking. Now the residents of Cranbrook Suites Retirement Village have had enough.
Manager Lyn Freeman has taken every measure, including CCTV, to make sure residents were safe, but Michael Franklin still has a baseball bat handy, just in case.
Ms Freeman often has to chase opportunistic offenders out of the village and the residents have called for change.
“Elderly people are vulnerable; police have been around here helping them, you know, telling them how to keep themselves safe,” Ms Freeman said. “I think getting vulnerable kids into the right situation (will help), they should be at school not wandering through here in the middle of the day.”
Resident Mr Franklin said young kids often tried to get into residents’ homes, and the problem kept getting worse. “What we need is a result, not promises.”
LNP Mundingburra candidate Glenn Doyle said some of the residents impacted were “genuinely scared”.
“It is an absolute tragedy we are in the situation we are here, where these residents are scared to leave the premises,” Mr Doyle said. “That is not the Townsville we want.”
Labor candidate Les Walker said it was the same old rhetoric, over and over again from the LNP. “They bring out the old box of tricks and they talk about one issue,” he said.