An international tourist was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 10-year-old boy before being “set upon” by other youths at a busy Cairns intersection. The 23-year-old Italian woman escaped with minor injuries in what police have described as a “traumatic experience” at the Lake and Spence St intersection, near the city’s main hotel precinct, at 10am … Read more
Nearly 1000 Australians are badly injured each year as a result of unsteady wardrobes, shelves, drawers and TV units — and in the last 24 years, 28 people have died. Now, furniture suppliers are required by new consumer laws to ensure a number of steps are taken to mitigate further deaths as a result of … Read more
A former military lawyer who helped expose allegations of war crimes by leaking classified documents is asking a judge for leniency but prosecutors want him to spend at least two years behind bars. David McBride pleaded guilty to three offences including stealing commonwealth information and passing it onto journalists. Justice David Mossop heard arguments in … Read more
A teenager who murdered a woman during a home invasion could be sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment unless the judge finds the crime “particularly heinous”. The now 18-year-old and another teen were charged after Emma Lovell was fatally stabbed in her home north of Brisbane in 2022. Police alleged the two boys, then 17 years … Read more
More young people are set to be locked up in Queensland after Premier Steven Miles vowed to remove the detention as a last resort principle from youth sentencing. Hurtling towards defeat at the October state election, Miles told caucus on Tuesday night he would adopt the same changes to the Youth Justice Act the LNP … Read more
The family of a Queensland police officer killed in an alleged hit-and-run fears they “may come into contact” with a woman charged over the incident after she was released on bail. Senior Constable David Masters died after being struck by a suspected stolen car on the Bruce Highway at Burpengary, north of Brisbane, about 3am … Read more
A 14-year-old boy is accused of stabbing a man while breaking into a unit on the Cairns waterfront. The boy allegedly broke into the Esplanade unit about 5am on Saturday, waking up the 29-year-old man and sparking a “short altercation”, police said. The boy allegedly stabbed the man in the chest before running from the … Read more
A boy wanted over the assault of an elderly man has been caught trying to break into a Queensland police station. The 16-year-old Cairns boy had evaded arrest since the March 18 incident, when he allegedly assaulted the elderly man in Manunda. On Monday, he allegedly jumped the fence of a compound at the Smithfield … 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
West Australian police are searching for a man believed to have become separated from a group of people who arrived in Western Australia on an “unknown vessel”. The force said it was searching for the man in “challenging terrain” in the vicinity of Mitchell Plateau in the far northern reaches of the remote Kimberley region. … Read more
