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Convicted fraudster George Alex leaves court in Sydney. He was granted bail last year despite a hefty prison sentence.

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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Ronglai “Martin” Zhang and Mingfeng “Richard” Gu.

Bentleys, brawls and bad loans: Jailed ex-lawyer battles failed property tycoon

The two, each with criminal convictions, are fighting in the Supreme Court over an alleged $3 million loan.

  • Kate McClymont
A Sydney man threw his six-year-old daughter into the Parramatta River before jumping in himself in what police believe was a carefully planned murder-suicide.

Father rehearsed murder-suicide over several days, police believe

Cameras at a waterfront property captured the man throwing his six-year-old daughter into the Parramatta River moments before jumping in himself.

  • Riley Walter
Senior curator Shannon Biederman and Melbourne artist Nina Sanadze have been commissioned to transform the flower tributes from the Bondi shooting into a permanent exhibit/artwork.

Despite our pain, the Jewish community refuses to wallow in anger

Six months on from the Bondi massacre, Australia’s Jews are in the second stage of their mourning. Next, we will seek light to dispel the darkness.

  • Alex Ryvchin
Merrylands is the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis.

The suburb at the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis

Youth workers are putting themselves between vulnerable teens and the crime families willing to pay them for brazen acts of violence.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
Richard Jones has been jailed for sexually assaulting a girl while he worked the Horizon Church in Sutherland.

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
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A man has been charged with the murder of a missing woman.

Estranged son allegedly killed mother after arranging meeting at Sydney park

The woman has not been seen since Monday afternoon, when she drove to meet her son at a park in Sydney’s north-western suburbs.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo and Sarah McPhee
Tracy Lee said she was never interviewed by police with an adult present.

Sex assault victim’s outrage after arrest of notorious gang rapist Mohammed Skaf

Tracy Lee says she was just 15 when she allegedly became one of the first victims of the Skaf brothers.

  • Amber Schultz
NSW Police has been accused of being out of step with the times.

NSW Police culture resists change and outsider expertise

Australia’s biggest police force has problems that have been ignored for too long.

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Anthony Koletti leaves Downing District Court on Thursday.

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