Man’s body found in tiny Wimmera town after woman stabbed outside Kew home

A young woman in hospital with serious stab wounds was attacked by a young man she knew after being dropped off from a night out, police say.

The man’s body was found in regional Victoria five hours after the stabbing in Miller Grove, Kew. The woman remains in hospital.

Superintendent Wayne Cheesman said the 18-year-old man approached the woman of the same age in her driveway as she was about to enter her family home.

“He’s also of similar age, and he approaches her in her driveway as she’s about to enter the family home, and he stabs her multiple times,” Cheesman told Melbourne radio station Nova on Wednesday.

“She was just a young girl minding her own business, walking home in the safety of her own driveway.”

Blood stains remained on the home’s fence on Wednesday morning as police investigators went about their work.

The woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but is now in a stable condition.

Following the stabbing, police launched a search for the 18-year-old Camberwell man. Cheesman urged the man to hand himself in, unaware at that stage that his body had already been found.

At 6.15am on Wednesday, following a call to Triple Zero, police discovered the man dead in the town of Antwerp, 18 kilometres north of Dimboola in western Victoria’s Wimmera region.

The man’s death is not being treated as suspicious, and a report will be prepared for the coroner. Investigations continue.

Cheesman said the incident reflected the wider issue of knife crime across Victoria, and implored people who carried knives to consider the consequences of their actions.

“It’s funny how things stay with you over the years, and I guess you see the best, the worst and everything in between of life,” he said. “Sometimes you wonder how an 18-year-old boy can, for whatever reason, think it’s OK to approach a girl he knows and stab her. I don’t know how people get to that point.”

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