Courts
Jailed construction boss lives in the community as he fights $10m fraud conviction
It can be revealed George Alex was granted bail just months after being imprisoned for nearly a decade. He is appealing over “jury misconduct”.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Domestic violence
Domestic violence royal commission ‘should examine family law system’
Teal MPs are calling for action amid warnings that perpetrators are weaponising the family court system and “deliberately driving up the other side’s legal costs”.
- Michaela Whitbourn
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- Family law
‘I will work until the day I die’: The crippling cost of family law fights
Eloise was forced to flee a husband who subjected her and their children to a “daily regime of coercive control”. The legal bills were crushing.
- Michaela Whitbourn
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
Dressed as a cop, he arrived at a politician’s home and rang the doorbell. Then the killing began
A Minnesota man who spent months stalking Democrats before killing a top Minnesota politician and her husband has been spared the death penalty.
- Tim Sullivan and Hannah Fingerhut
‘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
Pentecostal predator had ‘lifetime free of punishment’ for Sydney child abuse
A former volunteer at former prime minister Scott Morrison’s church in Sydney has been jailed for sexually abusing a young girl 40 years ago.
- Amber Schultz
Melissa Caddick’s widower says police tricked him over alleged Vaucluse assault
Anthony Koletti is accused of shoulder barging a 73-year-old woman at a clifftop reserve in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Veterinary health
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.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Accused killer makes claim in police interview over missing beauty queen
Her body was never found, with the suspect shown photos of authorities excavating his front yard.
- Cloe Read