Wyndham Vale stabbing: Teenage boy hospitalised after second machete attack in Melbourne’s southwest

A second machete attack took place on Sunday in Melbourne’s southwestern suburbs, leaving a teenage boy hospitalised after the violent stabbing.

The incident occurred at around 11.45pm, when four males were seen chasing another male through the streets of Wyndham Vale.

The victim ran to a property on Manuka Drive to seek help, but was attacked on the doorstep before the offenders fled the scene.

CCTV footage shows one perpetrator carrying a bloodied machete.

Police confirmed in a statement that the victim suffered a laceration to his arm and injuries to his ribs. He was taken to hospital to receive treatment.

It wasn’t the only attack on Sunday, with shoppers left terrified after Northland Shopping Centre was forced into lockdown due to a violent brawl involving machetes.

A 16-year-old boy from the Darebin area and a 15-year-old boy from the Melton area were arrested at the scene.

The teenagers were charged with affray, intentionally causing injury, possession of a controlled weapon and use of a controlled weapon and have been remanded to appear in a children’s court at a later date.

Superintendent Kelly Lawson confirmed the attack was not random, saying rival gangs had arranged a meeting at the centre’s food court before the fight erupted.

“It was a chaotic scene,” Supt. Lawson added.

“It’s really frightening for members of the public to go through this.”

Following the violent brawl, large and dangerous blades will be removed from shop shelves in days in an Australian-first ban.

On Monday, Premier Jacinta Allan announced the laws, which bans the sale of machetes across Victoria, will take effect from noon on May 28.

“In Victoria, community safety comes first. We must never let places we meet become places we fear,” Ms Allan told reporters.

“I hate these knives, and I will keep introducing as many laws as it takes to get them off our streets, out of our shops and out of our lives.”

The purpose of the interim sale ban is to stop the supply of the items, before a possession ban comes into effect on September 1.

There will be no exemptions to allow the sale of machetes during the interim sales ban. It is a total ban on sales.

The laws were rushed initially through parliament after Crime Statistics Agency figures showed there were 24,550 offences committed by children aged 10 to 17 in Victoria in 2024, the highest number since electronic records started being collected in 1993.

Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000.

- With AAP