'I still love him': Freedom for woman who killed her abusive partner
A woman who killed her long-term partner with a wooden stool after decades of domestic violence has been found not guilty of murder.
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A woman who killed her long-term partner with a wooden stool after decades of domestic violence has been found not guilty of murder.
An L-plate driver who killed another motorist after crashing head-on into his car while overtaking has been sentenced to four years in jail.
Police have dropped historic child sexual abuse charges against a child protection worker after deciding they did not have enough proof to convict her, despite photographing her pelvic region against her wishes to help their investigation.
Two leading pathologists are at odds over whether a hairdresser's comb was used in an attack on two women who were fatally stabbed in a Portland hair salon, at a fresh inquest into their deaths.
A Jeep driver accused of driving away after hitting a cyclist in West Melbourne has appeared in court after he turned himself in following a public appeal by the injured man's parents.
Chief Justice Marilyn Warren has rebuked a judge, saying he blamed a child victim for her own sexual abuse when he commented that the teenager was "nubile" and that her abuser, a Children's Court security guard, was "not made of steel."
Euthanasia advocate Dr Rodney Syme, who promised to provide a lethal drug to a terminally ill man, has told a tribunal he only made that pledge so as to ease the man's psychological pain.
A Chinese student will fly home on Thursday after she was fined $5000 for kicking a teenager whose skull had been fractured in a brutal attack in a Chinatown alley.
A woman accused of murdering her long-term partner called triple-0 after fatally hitting him with a stool, and was recorded saying "I hope you die" during the call, a court has heard.
A husband and wife have walked free after stealing watches and other jewellery from their customers.
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