Stonehaven crash near Geelong: Suspected driver Jordan Kenyon under police guard, new details emerge

Details have emerged about a hoon suspected of causing the death of a 12-year-old girl in a head-on collision.

Mia Rossiter was traveling in her family’s Holden Barina in Stonehaven, near Geelong, on Wednesday evening when a Holden Commodore collided with their vehicle.

Geelong criminal Jordan Kenyon, 28, was reportedly behind the wheel of the Commodore and survived the crash that killed Mia and left her 7-year-old sister Willow fighting for life.

Their parents, Paul and Danica Rossiter, are also in hospital with serious injuries.

While charges against the father-of-three are still pending, Daily Mail Australia can reveal Kenyon has a shocking criminal past that has seen him repeatedly jailed.

He was under police guard in hospital on Thursday and had yet to be interrogated.

A video taken earlier in the evening appears to show Kenyon’s car driving erratically and swerving to the wrong side of the road.

The footage was taken around 7:45 PM and the fatal crash occurred around 9:00 PM.

Kenyon was recently released on parole after serving 5.5 years in prison. He posted a video on TikTok at the end of October showing off his ankle ligaments.

“While I’m on parole, I’m going to show everyone how busy it is and how hard it is to make it in this society… to be judged by what you’ve done,” he said.

Court records show Kenyon had already come to the attention of police while on parole, with an appearance at the Sale District Court scheduled for next month.

While the details of this charge remain unclear, Kenyon’s shocking criminal history has been well documented over the years in his hometown of Geelong.

In 2019, Kenyon was jailed for up to six years and a month after taking police on a wild chase through Geelong.

The Geelong Advertiser reported that Kenyon attempted to escape from police while out on bail, weaving through traffic on the wrong side of the Surf Coast Highway at 107 mph in a stolen Mercedes-Benz.

The then 24-year-old also crashed into two police vans, sped through the Geelong Hospital emergency drop-off area and broke into two homes, stealing $3000 worth of jewelery during a five-day rampage.

He had appeared in court on his 24th birthday, crying in prison as he pleaded guilty to driving against police, dangerous driving during a police chase, theft and driving while disqualified.

Passing sentence, Judge Gerard Mullaly convicted Kenyon for his reckless conduct.

“What you have to understand as a fundamental fact is that this type of behavior will simply not be tolerated by the community,” Judge Mullaly said.

“Young men full of drugs and misplaced bravado should stop thinking that if they get into stolen cars and drive the way you did – as if it were just a video game – and drive towards the police who try to stop them, they must do. no longer think that they will receive anything other than years in prison.’

Several years earlier, Kenyon had been jailed for six months following a crime spree in Geelong.

He had been arrested after another wild police chase involving police in an air wing coordinating with officers on the ground.

At the age of 22, Kenyon was hit with methylamphetamine as he committed burglaries at eleven businesses, including pubs, a butcher, a garage, a bakery, a bottle shop, a pizzeria, a fish and chip shop and a hairdresser.

Kenyon had already served two community corrections orders for other crimes at the time.

He was also warned at the time that he could face years behind bars if he did not change his bad behavior.

“You’re going to have to turn this around. Only you can do this,” Magistrate John Lesser told Kenyon at the time.

“If you don’t get your drug problems under control, you’re going to spend more and more time in prison.”

Kenyon has been a thorn in the side of Geelong police for at least a decade.

In 2014, a detective told the Geelong Magistrates’ Court there had been 176 burglaries in the Geelong region between February 1 and 24.

He said that after Jordan Kenyon’s arrest on March 19 that year, the weekly figures more than halved, from 61 to 23. Geelong Advertiser reported.

Two years later, Kenyon was found in the backseat of a car with a baseball bat and a .22 rifle.

Police could barely contain their anger as she faced the media about Kenyon’s latest alleged crime.

Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Peter Romanis said police were ‘furious’ at Kenyon’s alleged driving and described the crash as a ‘completely preventable tragedy’.

“It’s the kind of collision that makes us angry,” Sergeant Romanis said.

‘We have a disqualified driver, driving at high speed, alternating between swaying in and out of the lane and this collision, as is often the case, was completely avoidable.

“We have witnesses who also saw the (Commodore) driving at a high rate of speed, doing donuts and driving dangerously on Evans Rd in Lovely Banks approximately an hour before this collision occurred.

‘This type of driving on our roads is completely unacceptable.’

Witnesses told police they said Kenyon suffered a burnout and was driving “well above the speed limit” prior to the head-on collision.

a Gofundme The fundraiser set up to help the Rossiter family had already raised just over $12,000 of its $15,000 goal as of Friday.