Whodunit? Mystery surrounds blood splatter

Kooweerup resident Chris Ham has no clue how the blood ended up on his car.

By Aneeka Simonis

SUSPICIOUS blood splatter appears to have left traces of a grizzly encounter in Kooweerup – what it was, no-one knows.
Chris Ham, 36, parked his car out the front of his Moody Street home in Kooweerup overnight on Tuesday 23 August. When he walked outside to his car at 7.30am the next morning, blood was all he saw.
Blood splatter was found across the front driver’s side of his car.
He thought maybe someone had tried to break into his car by breaking a window – but a quick inspection found that was not the case.
He posted an image of his bloodied car to a Kooweerup online newsboard, hoping someone might be able to shed some light on the finding, but no-one has come forward with information that might help piece together how the blood came to be on his car.
Mr Ham’s second theory was that someone may have injured themselves up the road, and walked up to the nearest street light located outside his house to assess the damage.
But so far – that theory hasn’t been corroborated either.
“I didn’t hear a noise,” he said.
Pakenham police Senior Sergeant Graeme Stanley said the only incident recorded overnight in the Kooweerup area related to a mental health patient on Rossiter Road.
The incident report does not indicate the patient was harmed or left the house before police arrived. The male patient was transferred to Casey Hospital.