'Vigilantism has got to stop': Police call for calm amid stabbings and arson attacks in WA tow truck industry

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Police are investigating a series of increasingly violent, allegedly tit-for-tat attacks within Western Australia's tow truck industry.

It is alleged a tow truck driver in his 20s almost died in one attackIn recent weeks, there have been a string of arson attacks, serious assaults and stabbings associated with the tow truck industry.

Police said members of the public were also regularly threatened and intimidated by "unscrupulous towies", who pressured people into accepting their towing services and demanded large payments. "It created a massive wound, and that could easily have killed him, let alone if he had been hit in the neck."Want more WA news?

 

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