Rebecca Peppiatt
Rebecca Peppiatt is a journalist with WAtoday, specialising in crime and courts.
Tribunal finds Perth nurse was caught stealing from disabled patients, selling items on eBay
A tribunal ruled the woman was “not currently a fit and proper person” to hold a nursing registration after she allegedly stole clothing, shoes, toiletries and food from a couple whose disabled children she cared for.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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‘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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- Courts
Celebrity Perth vet banned after fabricating debt, posing as lawyer
Dr Peter Ricci wrote letters to a club secretary pretending to be a legal representative, falsely accusing the woman of harassment, stalking and intimidation.
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- One Nation
Hanson met by protesters as she flies into Perth for sold-out sundowner
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson arrived in Perth to protests in the city’s east ahead of a sold-out sundowner on Wednesday evening.
- Michael Philipps and Rebecca Peppiatt
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- Courts
The $16m Osborne Park hospital, the gym upstairs, and the battle over dropped weights
A state-of-the-art day hospital that specialises in spinal injections for pain management has taken a neighbouring gym to court after claiming throbbing music and the noise of dropped weights was impacting their business.
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- Sharks
Man, 35, dies after being bitten by shark off coast of Albany
The incident happened off Michaelmas Island just before 11.30am on Saturday.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Floreat dad accused of starving his daughter pushes for charges to be dropped
The man and his wife are facing a re-trial over allegations of neglect and infantalisation of their teenage daughter.
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- Construction
Perth house relocator leaves trail of clients, contractors claiming he owes millions
A group of aggrieved clients claim James Thomson owes them money. He claims he is the victim of an online smear campaign.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
‘Confronting’: Perth primary school teacher jailed over sexual abuse of children
Kurt Charlton, 29, was working as a babysitter on top of his usual teaching job to gain “unsupervised access to children” a court has heard.
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- Immigration
Wife-killer on hunger strike after deportation from Perth to ‘hellhole’ Nauru
Tony Kellisar was jailed for 22 years after he strangled his wife in 1997. He was then in limbo in immigration detention before being released in 2023, but his freedom was short-lived.
- Rebecca Peppiatt