Edith Bevin
Edith Bevin is the court and crime reporter for ABC News based in Hobart. She has been a newspaper and broadcast journalist for more than a decade. Edith was awarded Tasmania's major media prize in 2013 and 2015 when she named Journalist of the Year. In 2105, she also won the Keith Welsh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
Lucille Butterworth's clicker gift credited with saving lives in Vietnam War
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Almost 50 years after Lucille Butterworth was murdered in Tasmania, the story of how her gift of a simple metal clicker may have saved lives in the Vietnam War is revealed.
Topics: human-interest, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, hobart-7000, vietnam
Rise in heroin seizures prompts Tasmanian police to increase scrutiny of mail
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The amount of heroin detected being smuggled into Tasmania in the first three months of this financial year is three times the amount seized for the entire previous year.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, drug-use, tas
Woman accused of murder remanded in custody
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A 33-year-old Hobart woman accused of murdering Michelle Meades is remanded in custody after a court appearance.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000, tas
Man who tried to hire hitman to kill wife loses appeal
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A Tasmanian man who repeatedly tried to hire a hitman to kill his wife loses his bid to have his conviction overturned.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, tas, launceston-7250
Fugitive caught in Tasmanian shopping centre car park
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One of Australia's most wanted fugitives, Samuel McGovern, who is wanted over drug charges in Sydney, is behind bars after being caught in a Tasmanian shopping centre.
Topics: crime, hobart-7000, tas, nsw, sydney-2000
Man who produced child pornography avoids more jail time
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A 60-year-old man who produced child exploitation material while serving time in Hobart's Risdon Prison avoids more time in jail.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, pornography, tas
Anti-abortion protester to be first to appeal conviction under Tasmanian law
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The first person prosecuted under Tasmania's laws banning pro-life protests outside an abortion clinic appeals against his conviction, arguing the law is unconstitutional.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, abortion, activism-and-lobbying, tas
Ice popularity fuels demand for drug mules into Tasmania
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People are risking long jail terms for small reward to become ice drug mules to meet demand in Tasmania.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, crime, tas
Man who injected 16yo girl with ice avoids jail term
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A man who injected a 16-year-old girl he met in Hobart's Franklin Square with the drug ice escapes a jail term.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, hobart-7000
Police seize $2m worth of cannabis in north-west Tasmania
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Cannabis with a street value of $2.3 million is seized from a house in Tasmania's north-west, in what police say is one the state's biggest drug busts.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, smithton-7330
Drug driver in fatal crash jailed for nine months
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A Tasmanian woman who had a cocktail of drugs, including cannabis and methylamphetamine, in her system when her car hit and killed another driver could be released within weeks.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, new-norfolk-7140
No extra jail time for man who threatened builder with fake gun
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A 25-year-old man who was mistakenly released from custody will serve no more actual jail time for threatening a builder with a realistic-looking toy gun, and threatening to burn down his house.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000
Residents escape Hobart blaze that engulfed their house
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The occupants of an inner-city Hobart home manage to get themselves to safety before flames engulfed the ground floor of their house.
Topics: fires, hobart-7000
Flood-ravaged famers urged to swallow pride to get relief grants
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Farmers at Ouse in the Derwent Valley deserve joint state and Commonwealth disaster relief grants, the Tasmanian Flood Recovery Taskforce says.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, rural, ouse-7140
Police believe Shane Barker shot by killer from adjacent property
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Police search the vacant paddock next to the home of murder victim Shane Barker in Campbell Town, Tasmania, where they believe his killer was laying in wait.
Hobart man fined $750 over underage girl's facial tattoos
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A 41-year-old Hobart man who tattooed "family" across the cheek of a 17-year-old girl as her mother watched on becomes one of the first people convicted under a state law banning under-18s from getting tattoos or body piercings.
Topics: courts-and-trials, hobart-7000
High-profile barrister engaged to fight 'minor' charge in Hobart
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A Sydney lawyer who has previously been involved in the Wood royal commission into NSW police corruption is being brought in to fight a charge of failing to state name and address to police in Hobart.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, hobart-7000, sydney-2000, nsw
Record $250k reward gives Tasmanian victim's family hope
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The family of a man gunned down in a small country town in Tasmania's midlands hope a record $250,000 reward will finally see his killer convicted.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, campbell-town-7210
Man accused of shopkeeper's stabbing murder pleads not guilty
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The man charged over the stabbing death of popular North Hobart shopkeeper Voula Delios pleads not guilty to her murder.
Topics: crime, hobart-7000
Search for last of four missing fishermen called off
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Tasmanian police call off a search for the last of four men who embarked on a fishing trip near Hobart almost three weeks ago and did not return.
Topics: missing-person, emergency-incidents, police, hobart-7000, tas
Tasmanian man charged with emotional abuse or intimidation
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A Tasmanian man pleads not guilty of emotional abuse or intimidation of his partner, a charge rarely prosecuted because of the difficulty in proving intent.
Topics: courts-and-trials, moonah-7009
Double murderer loses appeal against sentence for shooting ex-partner, lover
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Murderer Patrick Daley loses an appeal against his 45-year sentence for killing his ex-partner and her boyfriend at Hamilton in 2012.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, hamilton-7140, tas
Toddler in bittersweet University of Tasmania graduation ceremony
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A toddler was the youngest person on stage at the University of Tasmania's mid-year graduation ceremony in Hobart.
Topics: university-and-further-education, university-of-tasmania-7005
Tasmanian businesses warned of credit card fraud network
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Police warn businesses about a network of criminals carrying out a sophisticated system of credit card fraud in the state.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, wa, tas
Tasmanian police give Lucille Butterworth file to DPP
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Authorities are a step closer to a possible prosecution for the murder of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth almost 50 years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000
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