A senior constable allegedly used a police database to look up a woman he is accused of stalking and abusing. Jordan Leigh Weston is charged with 11 domestic violence offences including assault, stalking and intimidation, and making threats over the phone. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Senior constable accused of stalking woman using police database. His … Read more
The mother of a young woman killed in Australia’s worst road crash in two decades says the plea deal given to driver Brett Button has torn apart any progress the families had made in recovering from the tragedy. Rebecca Mullen was one of 10 wedding guests killed when their coach slammed into a guard rail … Read more
After hearing Justin Stein’s account into the disappearance of nine-year-old Charlise Mutten, police turned their attention to whether he knew more than he was telling them. The 33-year-old, who is on trial for the schoolgirl’s murder after pleading not guilty, claims it was the girl’s mother, Kallista Mutten, who shot her own daughter. Stein’s lawyer … Read more
The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Charlise Mutten allegedly sent a string of violent voicemails to her mother, threatening to kill her if she didn’t return his car to him. Justin Laurens Stein, 33, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Charlise on, or about, January 12, 2022, at Mount Wilson, in the Blue … Read more
Six deaths at a major Tasmanian hospital have been referred to the coroner for investigation after allegations records were altered and legal reporting requirements not followed. Tasmania’s health department launched a review after a Launceston General Hospital nurse accused a senior manager of falsifying death certificates and not reporting deaths to the coroner. Acting secretary … Read more
The sentencing of the man who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan has been met with outrage, with David McBride to spend at least two years and three months behind bars. McBride, 60, pleaded guilty to leaking classified defence information to journalists. Justice David Mossop sentenced him to an aggregated five years … Read more
A woman from Arizona, in the US, accused of attempting to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee, has been sentenced to three years probation. Melody Felicano Johnson was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder and pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser charge of adding poison or a harmful substance to food or … Read more
A man has been charged over an alleged assault and deliberately lit fire in NSW. The 40-year-old man allegedly assaulted his neighbour — a 56-year-old man — at a unit on Crown St in West Wollongong about 12pm on Monday. Paramedics treated the older man at the unit for facial injuries before taking him to … Read more
A 10-year-old boy has been released from custody after being accused of sexually assaulting an Italian tourist in a far north Queensland holiday hotspot. The juvenile has been charged with several offences after the 23-year-old woman was allegedly attacked in the Cairns CBD on Wednesday morning. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Tourist allegedly sexually assaulted by … Read more
A Sydney detective is accused of abusing his position to touch, grope and rape a teenage girl who attended a Western Sydney police station to make a sexual crime complaint, a jury has been told. Glen Coleman was first introduced to the 19-year-old girl at Windsor Police Station in February 2022, after she came in … Read more
