Victorian election debate: Daniel Andrews forced to defend bail for Melbourne attacker

In a televised face-off, the premier clashes with Matthew Guy over law and order

Daniel Andrews, the Victorian premier, has been forced to defend the decision of police to bail the man who committed the fatal Bourke Street attack in an emotive leadership debate with the state opposition leader, Matthew Guy.

In a rowdy exchange, Guy claimed that the killer, Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, who was on bail for a driving offence at the time, would have been remanded in custody under tough new bail laws proposed by the Coalition. He suggested that the attack, which led to in the fatal stabbing of the Melbourne restaurant identity Sisto Malaspina, would not have occurred.

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