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A Melbourne babysitter caused the death of a 10-month-old girl and later tried to blame the parents, a jury has heard.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A 38-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to killing her baby in far north Queensland in 2012.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedShoes discovered at the murder scene of Daniel Morcombe had similar wear patterns to the shoes found in his room, a jury has heard.
Brisbane's Supreme Court has also been told how feral animals may have disturbed the crime scene where police located Daniel's remains.
Daniel was 13 when he vanished while waiting for a bus at Woombye on the Sunshine Coast in 2003.
The boy's remains were found near the Glass House Mountains eight years later.
Brett Peter Cowan has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, woombye-4559, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA man on trial for the stabbing murder of a woman at Eudunda has told the South Australian Supreme Court he did not intend killing her and she impaled herself on the knife.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, eudunda-5374
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| UpdatedA 27-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Lyneham man in late December.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602
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| UpdatedA Canberra punk musician has pleaded not guilty to the murder of popular local music fan Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
Watson man Christopher David Navin, 27, was arrested and charged on Friday after a seven-week murder investigation led police to a property in Grafton, in northern New South Wales.
Sofer-Schreiber, 27, was found dead in his Lyneham townhouse on December 28 after not being heard from since Boxing Day.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, music, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602, watson-2602, grafton-2460
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| UpdatedOne of New South Wales's most wanted men has been arrested over a stabbing in Sydney's west earlier this month.
Chinese student Gongcheng Chen was stabbed to death in his apartment at Auburn.
Chen's flatmate became the prime suspect in the murder but had not been seen since the night of the attack.
Last night detectives were told the man had been arrested in Perth.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, auburn-2144, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedFormer detective Charlie Bezzina says it's likely people with mental illnesses are slipping through the net when it comes to policing.
Topics: mental-health, crime, domestic-violence, murder-and-manslaughter, police, vic
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| UpdatedACT Police have had breakthroughs in their investigations into the two most recent murders in Canberra.
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| UpdatedACT police have had breakthroughs in their investigations into two Canberra murders, closing in on suspects.
Police have arrested a man for the Lyneham murder of Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
And they've identified their main suspect in the death of 71-year-old Miodrag Gajic at Phillip.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe jury at the murder trial of the man accused of killing Queensland teen Daniel Morcombe will not hear further testimony from witnesses until next Monday.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedPolice have revealed they missed an opportunity to arrest a man before he killed his 11-year-old son at a junior cricket club south-east of Melbourne.
Greg Anderson, 54, was shot by police when he threatened officers with a knife after killing Luke Batty on Wednesday night. He died in hospital on Thursday morning.
This morning Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said officers had spoken to Anderson about reports of assault allegations on January 27, but had not been aware that he already had five outstanding arrest warrants against him.
He said problems with the police IT system meant the officers would not have known about the warrants at the time.
"Our members who attended at that scene would not have had visibility of the existence of those warrants when they attended at this address because of shortcomings in our IT systems," he said.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, tyabb-3913
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Police talk to children at the Tyabb Football & Cricket Club after the death of 11 year old Luke Batty in Melbourne on Thursday 13 Feb 2014.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, tyabb-3913
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| UpdatedLocals pay tribute to 11-year-old Luke Batty who was killed at Tyabb Football & Cricket Club in Melbourne. Picture taken on February 13, 2014
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tyabb-3913
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| UpdatedThe mother of an 11-year-old boy killed by his father at a cricket ground in Victoria has spoken of her shock, and revealed her estranged partner had a history of mental illness and was the subject of an apprehended violence order (AVO).
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, mental-health, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tyabb-3913, vic, australia
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| UpdatedTopics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tyabb-3913
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| UpdatedFlinders Christian Community College executive principal Jill Healy says the school has been devastated by the "tragic loss" of one of their students.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, tyabb-3913
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| UpdatedTyabb locals react to news that a man who killed his 11-year-old son at a cricket ground south-east of Melbourne has died in hospital after he was shot by police at the scene.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, tyabb-3913
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| UpdatedPolice divers testifying at the murder trial of Daniel Morcombe's alleged killer have described finding muddy clothing believed to belong to the Queensland schoolboy in a Sunshine Coast creek.
Brett Peter Cowan, 44 has pleaded not guilty to murder, interfering with a corpse, and indecently dealing with a child under 16.
Police diver Gordon Thiry today told the Supreme Court in Brisbane about the discovery of shorts and a belt in Coochin Creek in August 2011.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, woombye-4559
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