A government department has been charged with failing to meet safety standards at the National Science and Technology Centre known as Questacon over an incident that seriously injured a child. The nine-year-old child was allegedly burned on the hand and wrist when they touched a plasma globe during a July 2022 visit to the Canberra … Read more
A teenage boy accused of stabbing a student at the University of Sydney has been charged. A 22-year-old man was rushed to hospital with stab wounds to the neck on July 2. The inner-city Camperdown campus went into lockdown as police raced to the scene and searched for the attacker. Know the news with the … Read more
A woman has been sentenced to two months in prison because he was so obese he could barely move or breathe. He died two months after he was rescued. The dog, named Nuggi, was found at the home of an Auckland woman in October 2021 after a search warrant was carried out by police, the … Read more
One of the men convicted of abducting and raping Sydney bank teller Janine Balding before her murder in the late 1980s has been returned to jail, where a magistrate says he best belongs. Wayne Wilmot, 51, was placed under strict conditions when he left jail earlier in 2024, including requirements that he be subject to … Read more
A 21-year-old man with severe intellectual disabilities, known as MZU in court documents, is set to spend two years in jail without ever facing trial. That’s due to “profoundly regrettable” delays in the Queensland Mental Health Court, chief justice Helen Bowskill said last Thursday as she refused bail to the young man due to an … Read more
A former victim’s advocate who was fired after sending a sexually inappropriate message about “panties” to his boss and colleagues claims the message was sent as a mistake and meant for a friend. Jovan Thomas, a victim advocate in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, sent a reply-all email to his boss, District Attorney Brooke … Read more
An area of Kosciuszko National Park’s backcountry where a 23-year-old man was found dead is “complex and technical” for skiing, an inquest has been told. Andrew Keith Seton’s body was found on a rock in Watsons Crags on September 5, 2022. Watsons Crags is a challenging backcountry skiing destination requiring hiking and climbing northwest of … Read more
The family of a 76-year-old US man was rewarded over $US2 million ($A3 million) for his death from second- and third-degree burns suffered in a scalding hot motel shower where water temperatures reached at least 65C. Court documents from the lawsuit alleged that Kentucky man Alex Chronis checked into the Econo Lodge in Erlanger, Kentucky, … Read more
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of people who have died A mother and her son are accused of deliberately striking an Indigenous teen with their ute and leaving him to die by the side of a road south of Sydney in an act of retribution over past … Read more
WARNING: Distressing content Three men have been found guilty of luring three women to be gang-raped in an apartment they were renting for a buck’s party weekend. Maurice Hawell, 30, his brother Marius Hawell, 22, and Andrew David, 30, were hit with the verdicts on Monday after an almost four-week-long trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre … Read more
