NSW Police Claim Credit for Solving Cold Case Murder
Quanne Diec left her parent’s Granville home for Strathfield Girls High School on the morning of July 27, 1998. But the 12-year-old vanished before she got to Clyde Station. On Sunday, police charged a 49-year-old man with the murder of...
Police Strike Force to Investigate Sydney Killings
NSW Police have developed a new strike force in an effort to stamp out gangland warfare, after the killing of several crime figures on Sydney’s streets in recent months. Investigations into a number of shooting deaths over the past 17...
Byron Bay Mum Faces Murder Charges in Bali
A romantic overseas getaway has turned into a nightmare for Byron Bay mother Sara Connor. Connor is back in court in Denpasar this week, facing murder charges over the death of a Balinese policeman in August. She is being tried...
Convicted Murderer Sues Prison After Being Forced to Speak English
Convicted murderer and Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy has filed proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court against Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin from his cell at Goulburn’s ‘Supermax’ prison. Hamzy claims he is being denied religious freedom - which...
Dreamworld: A Tragedy Waiting to Happen
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim Australia was rocked this week by the tragic deaths of four people on a recreational ride at Dreamworld on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Many want answers from Ardent Leisure, the owners and operators of the theme park,...
Tinder Murder Trial: What the Jury Wasn’t Told
Mr Gable Tostee was acquitted yesterday of both murder and manslaughter over the death of his Tinder date Warriena Wright, who fell from his 14th floor apartment after the pair got into an argument. As reported in an earlier blog,...
Guilty or Not Guilty? You be the Judge
CCTV, selfies and mobile phone recordings are at the centre of a Queensland murder trial this week. A Supreme Court jury is deciding the fate of a Gold Coast man on trial for murder after his Tinder date plunged 14...
Attempted Murderer Laughs at Victim in Court
Brisbane woman Rachel Moore says she didn’t expect her former-partner would even have the ‘guts to look at her’ in court, but that if he did, she thought he might show sorrow and regret. Instead, he looked at her and...
Mother Accused of Murdering Baby Daughter
Police are still trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the shock finding of a two-year old girl’s body wrapped in a towel in a home in Sydney’s south-west. The girl’s mother faced Penrith Local Court this morning via videolink, charged...
Life Sentences in NSW: “Life Meaning Life”
At the conclusion of their highly publicised Supreme Court trial, Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara were found guilty and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murdering Sydney student Jamie Gao. Gao was shot dead in 2014 after Rogerson...