Kate Langbroek injured in “crazed, violent” attack
Radio star Kate Langbroek has lashed out at politicians after she was injured trying to protect her babysitter who was attacked outside her home in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda.
Bruised, shaken and angry after the “crazed, terrifying and violent” attack, Kate unleashed on politicians on her radio show for failing to clean up St Kilda in the face of growing crime rates.
Speaking on air on her Hughesy and Kate raduo show, Kate said the terrifying attack on Friday night was the last straw.
Kate described how her babysitter, Annabelle was walking to her car, which was parked less than 10 metres from Kate’s front door, at about 10pm when a man tried to get into the passenger seat.
A terrified Annabelle ran back to Kate’s house and banged on the front door.
The man, yelling and swearing, followed Annabelle and tried to get into the property.
With her children and the babysitter inside, Kate and her husband Peter went outside to investigate.
The man, who she described as looking “deranged”, was across the road but when he saw them he started running towards the house.
“He was quick as insanity and was right there on us,” she said.
Kate ran for the house, slamming the door once she was inside and holding the door to brace it.
As the man kicked the door repeatedly, police were called. About 12 officers arrived to take the man away.
Kate later tweeted a picture, showing the large bruise on her arm, to Victorian Housing minister Martin Foley.
“This is the bruise I sustained trying to keep that ‘vulnerable’ resident from kicking our front door in on Friday night,” she wrote. “The real vulnerable are the decent citizens of St Kilda. We await your action.”
Langbroek told listeners “the people we have elected to solve the problems are not solving the problems.”
“People who are living good, decent lives are having those lives compromised by people who have chosen to do the opposite,” she said.
Langbroek told Fairfax that anti-social behaviour in the area had become “rampant” in St Kilda since residents of the Gatwick were moved to public housing,
“Our children walk to school and [the other day] we saw a guy get a Glasgow kiss,” she said. “He was just walking around the corner with his headphones in and he got headbutted in broad daylight. It’s crazy.”
“It’s an extremely complex issue, but in the meantime we’re not being offered the most basic short-term solution.
“They [politicians] want to look like heroes and use words like ‘vulnerable’ and ‘the community’, but they’re not actually servicing the community. “