MELBOURNE - The partner of a woman who was fatally stabbed while pursuing people who had been throwing eggs at their home has told how he tried in vain to resuscitate her.
A 14-year-old has been charged with manslaughter after the death of the woman who pursued a group of
youths who were throwing eggs at her home in Lalor, in Melbourne's north, on Sunday night.
The man said that he, his partner and their 11-year-old daughter followed the group of egg-throwers in their car.
After they caught up with the group of five, he chased a few of them.
He returned to his partner and found she had been stabbed and was on the ground, alive but bleeding.
"She didn't say anything," he said.
He said he tried to resuscitate her and he is not sure if she was still alive by the time paramedics arrived a little later.
His daughter was with him when the ambulance arrived, he said.
The man said his partner was 40, and they have two other children, boys aged 17 and 15. Police arrested five people - four teenagers and a 20-year-old - in relation to the incident.
The 20-year-old and three teenagers were questioned over the stabbing and later released.
The man whose partner died said a number of homes in the area had been egged recently, and he did not believe the attack on their house was personal.
Anne Watson, who lived nearby, said she saw the man trying to resuscitate his partner.
"He was yelling out, 'I can't feel her heartbeat, I can't feel her heartbeat'," Watson said.
"He was really, really upset, he was saying 'wake up, wake up, wake up'."
Enver Mehmet, 21, who lived across the road from where the woman was stabbed, said the man and his daughter were screaming and crying.
"He was soaked in blood," he said.
He said a boy hiding in the front yard of a home near the stabbing was grabbed by police.
"He was vomiting," Mehmet said. "We didn't know if he was vomiting because he was drunk or because he was scared."
- AAP
