A teenage boy facing a possible life term in prison for terrorism over the stabbing of a bishop has shown behaviour consistent with mental illness or intellectual disability, his lawyer says. The 16-year-old is accused of travelling 90 minutes from his home to attack Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a livestreamed sermon at Christ the … Read more
Woolworths has lauded itself as an “exemplary employer” and “a model accused” in court as the supermarket giant admitted underpaying more than $1 million total to about 1200 workers. Two days after Woolworths’ boss was threatened with jail for holding the Senate in contempt, the company faced Melbourne Magistrates Court where it pleaded guilty to … Read more
An elderly woman was left with “blood all over her face” after she was allegedly bashed by a teenage girl on a bus in an incident near Brisbane that a witness described as “seriously traumatic”. The 15-year-old girl, upon being released on bail, told 7NEWS, the woman “started it and I finished it”. WATCH THE … Read more
The death of a baby who was tossed into a river by her father during a psychotic episode was predictable and inevitable, a coroner has found. NSW Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame said the nine-month-old girl, known as Baby Q*, “fell through the cracks” despite being known to child protection services in three states. Baby … Read more
A disability support provider has been fined $1.8 million after admitting serious shortfalls in staff training that led to a vulnerable Indigenous woman dying from burns after being given a bath. Kyah Lucas suffered burns to 35 to 40 per cent of her body when she was bathed at her home in Orange, in central-west … Read more
Woolworths boss Brad Banducci has been threatened with a six-month prison sentence and a fine for failing to answer questions at a Senate inquiry over the supermarket’s profits. Banducci was asked repeatedly during a hearing into supermarket prices to disclose Woolworths’ return on equity, a key measure of the company’s profitability. Instead, the chief executive … Read more
The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts — including hands, feet and heads — to buyers. Denise Lodge, 64, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on Friday in the United States District Court in the Middle … Read more
Medical staff delayed taking a pregnant mother for a caesarean section and did not mention the umbilical cord had been detached hours before her baby tragically died. Kirsty Carleton and her husband Chase were expecting to welcome a healthy baby boy when they arrived at Liverpool Hospital in western Sydney on August 8, 2018. However, … Read more
A man has overturned a 20-year jail sentence for murder after a court found delusions his girlfriend was a demon as he strangled her were the first onset of schizophrenia. Jordan Brodie Miller took LSD 11 days before violently attacking and killing his partner Emerald Wardle at a home at Metford, in the NSW Hunter … Read more
A man is set to front court following an alleged stabbing at a home on NSW’s far north coast. One man died and another was seriously injured at a home on Oxford St in Kingscliff, just a few hundred metres from a school, just after 8pm on Tuesday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: 26-year-old charged after … Read more
