A man has been found dead following a unit fire in Sydney’s west. The body of the man, who is yet to be formally identified, was discovered after firefighters extinguished the blaze in Yagoona on Tuesday morning. Police were initially called to the unit on Wilkins St about 10.30am to conduct a concern for welfare … Read more
WARNING: Distressing content. Police are now treating an alleged stabbing at a church in Western Sydney as a ‘terrorist act’. The incident occurred at Wakeley’s Christ The Good Shepherd Church on Box Rd just before 7.10pm on Monday. Newsletters: Breaking news as it happens. Subscribe now WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: NSW Police Commissioner addresses media. … Read more
Emergency services are responding to a stabbing at a church in Sydney’s west. About 8pm Monday, police and ambulance crews were called to Wakeley’s Christ The Good Shepherd Church on Box Rd to reports multiple people had been stabbed. NSW Ambulance said paramedics were treating four patients: two men — one aged in his 50s … Read more
A brave witness has told of the terrifying moment he came face-to-face with the “empty eyes” of the man behind the mass stabbing at a busy Sydney shopping centre. Damien Guerot and friend Silas Despreaux confronted the killer with a bollard before helping lead police to the knife-welding man at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday. … Read more
The security guard killed in the Bondi Junction massacre died protecting those around him, those close to him have revealed. Faraz Tahir, 30, was working as a security guard at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon when Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, stormed the busy shopping centre wielding a knife, sending it into lockdown. Cauchi … Read more
The police officer who stopped a man’s killing spree at a Sydney shopping centre has been praised for her “enormous courage and bravery”. The Royal family has been among those to pay tribute to Inspector Amy Scott after she shot dead 40-year-old knife-wielding man Joel Cauchi in the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction on … Read more
The man who killed six people in a stabbing rampage at one of Sydney’s busiest shopping centres has been identified as a 40-year-old from Queensland. Dressed in a green rugby league jersey and matching shorts, Joel Cauchi fatally stabbed six people in Sydney’s deadliest attack in years. Videos of chaotic scenes inside Westfield Bondi Junction … Read more
A man has died after a truck, carrying plane fuel, crashed into a tree in northern NSW. NSW police said emergency services were called to reports of a truck crash on Clifton Road in Gunnedah about 8am on Saturday. Paramedics treated the 22-year-old male driver, but he died at the scene. Newsletters: Breaking news as … Read more
A boy has died and another is in a serious condition in hospital following a stabbing near a school in Sydney’s west. Police were called to Power St, near Crawford Public School in Doonside, about 3.40pm on Friday. Before officers could arrive, two teenaged boys presented to Blacktown Police Station with serious stab wounds. Newsletters: … Read more
A 30-year-old truck driver has been fined $42,000 after he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Walgett, in northern NSW. The Wagga Wagga man was pulled over at about 11.30am on February 2, after NSW Police detected the man travelling at 64km/h in a 50 km/h zone. While speaking to the driver, … Read more
