AN elderly pensioner who died in hospital yesterday after being bashed by a would-be thief was looking forward to her new role as a grandmother.
Josephine Cesnik, 76, died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital about 1am after suffering bleeding on the brain on Tuesday. Her attacker, wearing a grey balaclava, throttled her in her back yard before pushing her against the trunk of a tree on Sunday, January 20, during an attempted robbery.
The assailant told Mrs Cesnik, a Slovenian immigrant with a recent sad family history, to stay quiet about the attack or he would return to her house and kill her.
The kind church-goer took the threat seriously and stayed silent, despite chronic headaches and severe bruising to her neck.
Police say her fearful silence cost the woman her life.
Mrs Cesnik had lived alone in her Templewood Cres home in Avondale Heights for the past five years after the death of her husband.
SIXTY teenagers, many of them wielding knives, ran amok in Melbourne's northwest yesterday, leaving a trail of vandalism, assaults and robberies.
The rampaging youths attacked bystanders and robbed a shop in Moonee Ponds before moving through Essendon and Highpoint shopping centre at Maribyrnong.
Police said the group was mostly males aged 14 to 18, "hell-bent on causing trouble".
A security guard witness said the Highpoint incident was a clash between Turkish and Lebanese boys.
Knives were found in rubbish bins in Moonee Ponds. Police also arrested a man after finding knives strapped to his legs.
Moonee Ponds Insp Nigel Howard said frightened shoppers phoned police at 2.30pm to report at least 60 teenagers were gathering outside the ANZ bank in Puckle St, Moonee Ponds, and assaulting shoppers.
Many of the youths left on a train, with some believed to be behind vandalism at Hoyts at Highpoint shortly before 4pm.
At least 30 of them stole clothes from a shop in Puckle St about 5pm. They committed more assaults and robberies at Essendon railway station.
Police were last night interviewing several people.



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