BREAKING NEWS!!!: Jill Meagher

[Freddy]

According to ABC news, a 41 year old man is "helping police with their inquiries" over the disappearance of ABC staffer Jill Meagher. More news soon

[zombie]

Thanks for that....I saw the news...bloke knows truck all..

[Freddy]

Sept 27, 2012 20:43:06 GMT 11 @zombie said:

Thanks for that....I saw the news...bloke knows phook all..

No, that was a different Guy, Tonts.
The guy you saw on TV talking about it, came forward after seeing CCTV footage of him walking past the boutique, moments before we saw the "Hoodie" guy talking to Ms Meagher.
This latest development, is that the police are now talking to the alleged "Hoodie"

[Freddy]

www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-27/man-arrested-in-relation-to-meagher-disappearance/4284356

Victorian Homicide Squad Missing Persons Unit detectives have arrested a man in relation to the disappearance of ABC worker Jill Meagher.

A 41-year-old Coburg man was arrested this afternoon and is currently in custody assisting police with their enquiries at St Kilda Road station. No charges have been laid.

Coburg is a suburb just north of Brunswick, where Ms Meagher was last seen in the early hours of Saturday morning after a night out with work mates.

She had declined an offer for a lift home from a colleague, saying she could make the five-minute walk from Bar Etiquette to her home alone.

On Wednesday police released CCTV footage showing Ms Meagher walking along Sydney Road, just south of Hope Street, at 1:41am (AEST) on Saturday.

Six other people can also be seen in the footage, including a man wearing a blue hooded jumper who can be seen several times in the footage before he is shown speaking to Ms Meagher.

Police had been particularly interested in talking to the man and had called for others in the footage to come forward.

Watch the complete CCTV video released by Victoria Police

[zombie]

Good police work...if they bloke owns a computer and he gets on the net then no doubt his computer dobbed him in....

[Freddy]

It is now an official homicide investigation.

[Freddy]

www.heraldsun.com.au/news/man-arrested-over-disappearance-of-missing-abc-worker-jill-meagher/story-e6frf7jo-1226482868669

POLICE have arrested a man over the disappearance of missing woman Jill Meagher.


The Herald Sun understands a 41-year-old Coburg man will be charged with her abduction and murder.

Police swooped on the man late today at his home and took him to the St Kilda Rd Police Complex where he was being interviewed. No charges have yet been laid.

The Herald Sun has been told police have no other suspects and it was allegedly an opportunistic crime.

His arrest by the homicide squad missing persons unit came a day after police released CCTV video of a man wearing a hoodie, who was seen talking to Ms Meagher, 29, at 1.43am on Saturday as she walked home.

Police have not said if the man who has been arrested is the person in the hoodie.

Ms Meagher's brother, Michael McKeon, was overwhelmed when told of the arrest. Police fear Ms Meagher was abducted while making the short walk home from a Sydney Rd bar in Brunswick.

Jill Meagher on CCTV

It was also revealed they were investigating a car captured performing a sudden U-turn as the man wearing a hoodie dashed towards Ms Meagher.

Ms Meagher's distraught husband was uncontactable last night, as was Tom Wright - the last friend to see her alive after they left Bar Etiquette on Sydney Rd, Brunswick.

The Irish national, an ABC staffer, had been in Australia for three years and moved to Brunswick a year ago with her husband.

The breakthrough came a day after police, including homicide squad detectives, blanketed Sydney Rd questioning traders and shoppers.

An absence of investigators in Sydney Rd, combined with no public statements and no further release of CCTV footage by the force, led to speculation an arrest was imminent.

Ms Meagher vanished from Sydney Rd, Brunswick just 450m from her home as she returned from a night out with ABC workmates.

[slartibartfast]

Bloody dreadful news, not far from us.

I lived in Brunswick for a few years so I know the area well and one of my mates still lives in Hope Street.

[Freddy]

It's shocking.

[slartibartfast]

What did he do with the body?

[pim]

The most useless question - albeit it's a natural question to ask - is "why?" If she's alive (unlikely) it was an opportunistic act of abduction and I shudder to think what she's gone through. Robbery doesn't appear to have been involved since her bank accounts don't appear to have been touched. If as appears likely the poor young woman is dead then I hope they've got the perp. Whoever it was - and I think the guy they have in custody has been charged with her murder (and there might be a problem there since at this stage they haven't found the body) - I hope they throw the book at the bastard.

There have been a couple of cases of naive young Europeans gratuitously killed in Australian cities lately. A young Dutch guy, I think he was an engineer out here in connection with his employment, was killed in Adelaide recently when he innocently intervened in a fight in inner city Adelaide at (I think) a taxi rank in the small wee hours. Before that there was a 17 year old kid killed when he was king hit in an unprovoked attack in Kings Cross - although he wasn't from overseas. And now this case in Melbourne. In 2004 - 2006 I lived in Switzerland, in Nyon near Geneva. You'd see push bikes parked up against walls in a public street with no chains or security stuff on them. Nobody would touch them. Somebody left a portable CD player on top of the letter boxes in my block of apartments. I'd check my letter box every day and that CD player would still be there! It took a week before it was gone and for all I know it had been retrieved by its rightful owner. I used to socialise with the local rugby crowd and their watering hole was a pub on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. I came home very late one night after a heavy session at that pub after a match that the local team had played. I had to walk through the town centre at 3am to get back to my apartment. I felt quite safe and I know what it feels like to walk through a dodgy neighbourhood. My point is that I'm not trying to describe a Utopia. Obviously if the Swiss have police and courts and jails then it follows that they have bad guys who do nasty things. But in the time that I lived there it just felt like a more law-abiding place than Down Under!

[zombie]

Her poor husband .....a bullet in the back of the head for the Coburg bloke..!!

[volk]

Sept 28, 2012 8:37:27 GMT 11 @zombie said:

Her poor husband .....a bullet in the back of the head for the Coburg bloke..!!

Let's hope the full extent of the law is brought down on this mongrel...!!!

One cannot begin to imagine the mental anguish Jill's husband and family must be going through at the moment.

R.I.P. Jill Meagher, our hearts and thoughts are with you young lady.

[Freddy]

Deepest Condolences to Ms Meaghers Family, and also to the ABC Melbourne team, for whom she was an integral member. Furthermore well done to Jon Faine (whose program she managed) in the way he has handled this. From his heartbroken intro this morning and also for the way he has not descended to Tabloid Sensationalism, in his handling, in what is a particularly difficult case for him and his team.
I hope the rest of us (the Media in particular) learn to follow his example.

[Earl Grey]

So very sad and devastating for those who knew her.

I know if it were my daughter, I would make it one of my goals in life to get to the perpetrator. Foolish, I know - yet there it is.