No jail for trainers who used rabbits to get greyhounds up to speed
Community service, and banning but no time behind bars for 'repugnant' conduct.
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Community service, and banning but no time behind bars for 'repugnant' conduct.
The teenager who had alcohol and drugs in his system and was speeding when he crashed a car and killed the 16-year-old son of AFL great Brett Ratten has been jailed for five years.
Bowe Maddigan has pleaded guilty to one charge of murder and one of committing an indecent act with a child under 16.
The head of the collapsed Viking Group has been jailed for 11 years for his role in defrauding one of Australia's biggest banks of $33.5 million.
AFL great Brett Ratten's family has described in court the heartache at losing their son in a fatal car crash last year.
New Zealand national charged over death of Sydney woman Tanami Nayler in alleged hit-run failed to appear in court because prison authorities didn't transport him from jail.
Convicted murderer Adrian Bayley will now spend a minimum of 40 years behind bars after the Court of Appeal sliced three years off his sentence.
Former bank clerk will serve at least 16 years for 'senseless' and brutal assault in a St Kilda Road McDonald's that killed young Aboriginal man.
Michael Aulsebrook, who lured boarding student to his office one night before assaulting the boy, is part of a long line of staff from notorious school to be imprisoned for sexually abusing children.
A man who stabbed the mother of four of his children to death in broad daylight offered to plead guilty to her murder, but on one crucial condition – that prosecutors drop evidence he was the one with the knife.
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