A 31-YEAR-OLD man is expected to face a Victorian court today charged over a double homicide stemming from a neighbourhood dispute.
Police were called to a home in the small south-western Victorian town of Casterton on Tuesday night, an hour and half before two men were stabbed to death and another two were injured.
Police first attended the home to deal with a squabble between locals about 8.30pm (AEDT) and returned around 10pm to find a 38-year-old local man dead.
Another man, a 25-year-old from Warrnambool, had been stabbed in the abdomen and died while being airlifted to a Melbourne hospital.
The 38-year-old reportedly had reacted to an insult levelled at one of his daughters.
His family said he was a devoted father, who had raised two teenage daughters on his own since their mother died and had recently had another two children with his fiancee.
A 28-year-old Hamilton man was taken to Hamilton Hospital in a serious but stable condition with multiple stab wounds to his torso.
A fourth man turned up at the Mount Gambier hospital over the border in South Australia.
Aaron Jamie Ball, 31, of Casterton, was arrested at the hospital early yesterday.
He appeared in Mount Gambier Magistrates Court yesterday afternoon charged with one count of murder.
Victorian police successfully applied for his extradition and he’s expected to appear in Warrnambool Magistrates Court today for a preliminary hearing.
Casterton, with a population of about 1600, is about 40km from the South Australian border.
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