Law
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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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
‘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
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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- Domestic violence
What 26 years of data says about the typical domestic violence killer
The statistics provide a unique profile of a domestic violence killer in NSW as the state’s coroner warned the “wicked and complex problem” was a persistent driver of homicide.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Courts
Byron psychedelic guru accused of choking ‘spiritual healer’
Tempers allegedly flared when the “alchemical storyteller” and his then partner began discussing a sexually charged internet meme.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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.
- 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.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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- Courts
Notorious one-punch killer punished for heroin use while on parole
Kieran Loveridge, who sparked Sydney’s lockout laws after killing Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross, has faced court again.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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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