Jamie Freestone
Jamie Freestone is a senior reporter at 9 News Perth.
‘Unprovoked, gratuitous, brutal’: Two men sentenced over WA grandfather’s murder
Raymond Smith, 68, died alone and in pain after three men broke into his house and brutally attacked him in December 2023.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Jamie Freestone
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Court told there could be more alleged victims of WA paediatrician facing child sex charges
It is alleged the offending occurred with patients inside Chia Saw’s consulting rooms.
- Heather McNeill and Jamie Freestone
Jasper Jones author Craig Silvey pleads guilty to distributing child exploitation material
The Fremantle-based writer, 43, was arrested in January after he was caught actively engaging with other alleged child exploitation offenders online.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Jamie Freestone
Teenage rider in fatal Edgewater e-motorbike crash to fight manslaughter charge
A teenager who fatally mowed down a pedestrian in Edgewater on an electric motorbike in July last year has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but not a charge of manslaughter.
- Jamie Freestone and Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth man jailed for ‘prolonged, ferocious’ City Beach highway attack
Matthew Lawson hadn’t slept for a week when he snapped at work and decided he was going to kill his friend, running him over and severing his leg on West Coast Highway.
- Heather McNeill and Jamie Freestone
- Opinion
- Network outage
The eyes of the cricketing world are on Perth. But about that stadium...
With the naming rights deal due to expire in 2027, the question has to be asked: why does the state government not pull down Optus’ logos permanently?
- Jamie Freestone
Perth brother of exiled crime boss has luxury cars seized after police bust alleged ‘commercial-scale’ tobacco ring
Maytham Hamad, the brother of exiled crime boss Kazem Hamad, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday, accused of operating a “commercial-scale” operation running dirty money and illicit tobacco across three states.
- Hannah Murphy and Jamie Freestone
- Exclusive
- Australians abroad
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson ends fight against drug-smuggling conviction
The 59-year-old, who was a “blind mule”, had until Friday to launch an appeal to the Supreme Court after the High Court in Tokyo last month upheld her conviction and six-year sentence.
- Jamie Freestone
The Australian couple making the most of Japan’s cheap abandoned houses
Brisbane couple John and Miranda Bertram are among a growing number of Australians investing in Japan’s cheap housing market.
- Jamie Freestone
Perth grandmother and ‘blind mule’ Donna Nelson loses drug trafficking appeal
The 59-year-old will be forced to serve a six-year drug trafficking sentence after a Japanese court rejected her appeal.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Jamie Freestone