'After Jill we're all responsible': Men step up to stop bike path rape
A split-second decision by four men to respond to the screams of a pregnant woman along a Brunswick bike path prevented what could have been a far worse crime, police say.
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Tammy Mills
Crime reporter
Son's murder leaves father distressed, court leaves him angry
The last conversation Terry Sullivan had with his son Glen was nothing out of the ordinary.
No bail for drug-user who allegedly beat sex worker with wooden leg
A man accused of assaulting a sex worker he allegedly picked up on Grey Street, St Kilda, before belting her with a piece of wood and holding her against her will has been refused bail.
How mass DNA screening may catch a killer
He went to Wee Waa to ride horses and become a fair dinkum bush lawyer. He didn't move to Wee Waa to land smack bang in the middle of Australia's most public debate about mass DNA testing.
Carjackings carried out for thrill
Some of Melbourne's carjackings and aggravated burglaries are being organised by established criminals who are using young people to steal luxury cars to order. But more young offenders, senior police say, are doing it for a far more concerning reason: they enjoy the violence.
Carjacking law would rev up crime data but won't halt the gangs
Police union wants more resources to deal with carjacking, says tougher laws won't work as would-be offenders don't care about the 'severity of the penalty'.
Silent tears as Kylie Maybury's mother faces man accused of daughter's murder
A 73-year-old man has faced court charged with the 1984 Melbourne Cup Day abduction, rape and murder of six-year-old Kylie Maybury.
"She has gotten away with it"
Judge said woman who turned to drugs after a boating tragedy and who later stabbed her younger boyfriend in the midst of an ice-fuelled fight should get a 'measure of leniency'. The dead man's mother disagrees.
Heavily pregnant woman saved by Good Samaritans from alleged sex attack
A young man accused of trying to rape a heavily pregnant woman on a popular inner city bike path in Melbourne allegedly tackled her to the ground before assaulting her.
Breakthrough in hunt for killer of Pakenham woman
A bank card and a few possessions; that's what Kylie Blackwood's life was taken for.
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