Big Bash League cricket player Nikhil Chaudhary has denied raping a woman in Queensland. Chaudhary, 27, is on trial in the District Court in Townsville on Monday after he pleaded not guilty to raping the woman in his car on Flinders St in the city’s nightlife precinct in May 2021. He met the woman at … Read more
Youth justice reforms will be the first order of business for the Liberal National Party if they win Queensland’s October election. Opposition Leader David Crisafulli said the LNP would remove detention as a last resort from the state’s Youth Justice Act. “We’ve got a generation of repeat hardcore young offenders and they’re not being dealt … Read more
ANZ has agreed to pay $57.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging customers were charged interest on credit card purchases that should have been interest-free. The class action claim, brought by Phi Finney McDonald, alleged ANZ’s credit card interest terms were unfair because they enabled the bank to retrospectively cancel customers’ interest-free periods. … Read more
A magistrate has dismissed a slew of domestic violence allegations facing William Tyrell’s former foster parents, while upholding counts of intimidation against each. Arguments over household chores, including cleaning a bedroom and stacking the dishwasher, formed part of the prosecution’s case against the pair. The former foster mother was cleared of five counts of intimidation, … Read more
A woman convicted of killing her baby daughter in one of Australia’s most notorious criminal cases has been denied parole after more than 13 years behind bars. Keli Lane, 48, was convicted in 2010 after a jury found her guilty of murdering her newborn daughter Tegan in September 1996. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Keli Lane’s … Read more
Disgraced former basketball star Kendal “Tiny” Pinder could be deported from Australia after being hit with a hefty prison sentence for the latest in a long history of sexual crimes. The Bahamian-born basketballer was sentenced to eight years’ jail in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty in April to sexual intercourse … Read more
A Sydney real estate agent accidentally burned her client’s multimillion-dollar Northern Beaches home to ground, a court has ruled. Domain Residential realtor Julie Bundock was supervising an open house at the four-bedroom home on Riverview Rd at Avalon Beach in May 2019 when the blaze erupted, and she had to make an unenviable call to … Read more
A country doctor has been banned from working after wrongly diagnosing a woman with glandular fever and anxiety weeks before she died of liver cancer and heart disease. The 71-year-old woman went to GP Kin Vui Tan in Lithgow, central western NSW, five times in early 2021 with “alarming” blood test results and rapidly declining … Read more
A man accused of stealing a taxi after a night out has told a court he only did it because he feared for his life. Brett Henson, 44, claims he was accosted by a group of men who tried to extort money from him after a night out in Sydney on November 4 in 2022 … Read more
Brian Earl Johnston’s life has been filled with brutality — both during his strict upbringing in a religiously conservative community of Ohio and as he served with the United States Marines. He brought that brutality with him to suburban Australia, committing an act of “pure evil” when he fatally stabbed and set alight his estranged … Read more
