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Cassandra Morgan

Appeal to identify man 12 years on from bookshop attack

Police are looking for a man seen in Altona when bookshop owner Jill Brookes was assaulted in 2012. (HANDOUT/VICTORIA POLICE)

Police are holding out hope they could find the person who severely bashed a Melbourne bookshop owner in 2012, as they release photos of a man they want to speak to.

Jill Brookes was left with serious brain damage and life-threatening injuries after she was bashed and robbed at her second-hand bookshop at Harrington Square at Altona in Melbourne's southwest about 5pm on July 20 that year.

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