Law, Crime and Justice

• Melbourne man sentenced to 21 months jail over cannabis grow house in Morwell

  ABC Gippsland

  By Kellie Lazzaro

  Posted January 17, 2017 10:02:25 | Updated January 17, 2017 16:29:18

  A man is jailed after pleading guility to charges relating to the operation of an elaborate hydroponic cannabis grow house at Morwell, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, cannabis, crime, morwell-3840

• South Korea prosecutor seeks arrest of Samsung chief for bribery

  Posted January 17, 2017 08:11:39

  South Korea's special prosecutor seeks a warrant to arrest the head of Samsung, the country's largest conglomerate, accusing him of paying multi-million-dollar bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye.

  Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, bribery, government-and-politics, world-politics, business-economics-and-finance, korea-republic-of, asia

• Inside one of Australia's oldest working prisons

  By Alkira Reinfrank

  Posted January 17, 2017 08:10:07 | Updated January 17, 2017 20:33:44

  Take a look behind the barbed wire at Cooma jail to see how the prisoners live and what the corrections officers have to deal with on a daily basis.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, cooma-2630, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia, bega-2550

• MSG has become "proxy theatre of debate over West Papua" Audio

  Audio
  Pacific Beat

  3min 26sec

  Posted January 17, 2017 07:05:00 | Updated January 17, 2017 09:05:42

  The chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, has set out on a regional charm offensive to persuade fellow leaders to back the admission of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

  Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, pacific, solomon-islands, vanuatu, fiji, papua-new-guinea, indonesia, papua

• Mexico shooting witness tells of horror scenes Video

  Video
  ABC News

  1min 4sec

  Posted January 17, 2017 06:39:59 | Updated January 17, 2017 07:58:02

  Perth man Nathan Hanna tells ABC News Breakfast about the scenes around the Blue Parrot club after a lone gunman opened fire at the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mexico

• Emails of senior politicians compromised in Yahoo hack (photos)

  By the National Reporting Team's Benjamin Sveen

  Posted January 17, 2017 06:04:51 | Updated January 17, 2017 15:39:40

  Thousands of Australian government officials, including high-profile politicians, senior Defence officials and ambassadors posted overseas, are among the 1 billion victims of the Yahoo data breach, according a secret dataset obtained by the ABC.

  Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia

• Orlando nightclub shooter's wife arrested, US Attorney-General says

  Posted January 17, 2017 05:48:49 | Updated January 17, 2017 09:36:35

  The wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter is arrested by the FBI on charges of obstruction of justice and "aiding and abetting" in connection with the attack, law enforcement officials say.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, united-states

• Five dead in Mexico nightclub music festival shooting: officials

  Posted January 17, 2017 00:06:10 | Updated January 17, 2017 12:43:36

  An Australian man describes the moment a lone shooter opened fire outside a nightclub in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, killing at least five people and injuring 15.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mexico

• 'It's been a nightmare': Realtor says car firebombed over Sydney Fish Market plan

  7.30

  By Dylan Welch

  Posted January 16, 2017 17:47:01 | Updated January 16, 2017 22:49:03

  Realtor Robert Deans had grand plans for the nation's biggest fish market until his car was set alight outside his home while his young family was asleep — the latest incident in a long-running "nightmare" he never thought could happen in Australia.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, urban-development-and-planning, pyrmont-2009, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Alleged pizzeria rapist 'told teen to drop charges'

  By Stephanie Dalzell

  Posted January 16, 2017 17:06:31 | Updated January 16, 2017 20:07:35

  Three teenagers charged over the alleged gang rape of a young woman at a pizza shop in Sydney's south west are granted conditional bail in a children's court.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, assault, sydney-2000

• Wheatbelt father accused of assaulting seven-month-old son

  By Joanna Menagh

  Posted January 16, 2017 16:44:19

  A West Australian father who allegedly assaulted his his child, leaving him with serious head injuries, told police he probably smacked the child "a bit too hard", a court hears.

  Topics: assault, child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, wa

• Malmsbury youth offenders sent to adult prison, charged over justice centre riot

  By Stephanie Corsetti

  Posted January 16, 2017 16:30:38 | Updated January 16, 2017 16:38:11

  A magistrate sends four young offenders to an adult jail after they were charged over a disturbance at the Malmsbury youth justice centre last week.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, youth, community-and-society, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, malmsbury-3446

• The evidence that helped police prove Robert Xie was a killer

  By court reporter Karl Hoerr and staff

  Posted January 16, 2017 16:25:20 | Updated January 16, 2017 20:48:05

  Blood stains, shoeprints and a slip of the tongue were among the key pieces of evidence used by investigators to prove Robert Xie was guilty of Sydney's shocking Lin family murders.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw

• Unit 'set on fire' after alleged domestic dispute in Sydney's south-west

  By Danuta Kozaki

  Posted January 16, 2017 15:26:56

  A 48-year-old woman is under police guard in Canterbury Hospital in Sydney's south west, after a unit was destroyed by fire following an alleged domestic dispute in Hugh Street, Belmore.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, belmore-2192

• Man who punched Darwin police officer jailed

  By Steven Schubert

  Posted January 16, 2017 14:32:29 | Updated January 16, 2017 17:36:46

  A man is jailed for punching Constable Nick Carter, who had no memory of the attack or the immediate events afterwards and was unable to work for five days.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, assault, darwin-0800

• Three people die from drug overdoses in Melbourne, court hears

  By Stephanie Anderson

  Posted January 16, 2017 13:34:35 | Updated January 16, 2017 19:05:21

  Three people die in Melbourne after more than 20 people are hospitalised due to suspected overdoses of the drug MDMA at the weekend, a court hears.

  Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, south-yarra-3141

• Entitlements system reform must go further than expenses: Shorten

  By political reporter Stephanie Anderson

  Posted January 16, 2017 12:56:48 | Updated January 16, 2017 13:28:58

  Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says it is crucial to explore the options for a federal anti-corruption watchdog as part of reforms around parliamentary expenditure.

  Topics: bill-shorten, person, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, political-parties, government-and-politics, australia

• Mother pleads guilty to killing three children in lake crash

  Posted January 16, 2017 10:26:59 | Updated January 16, 2017 15:22:53

  Akon Guode shows no emotion as she pleads guilty to killing three of her children and trying to kill a fourth by driving into a lake at Wyndham Vale in Melbourne's south-west.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, wyndham-vale-3024, melbourne-3000

• NSW RSL spent $93k defending executive in discrimination case

  AM

  By Angela Lavoipierre

  Posted January 16, 2017 09:27:30 | Updated January 16, 2017 11:30:39

  Documents obtained by the ABC reveal the New South Wales branch of the RSL spent more than $93,000 defending a senior executive accused of vilifying a young, gay RSL member.

  Topics: unions, veterans, defence-and-national-security, law-crime-and-justice, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, nsw, australia

• Explosive device found near Mudgeeraba ATM identified as fireworks

  By Elise Kinsella

  Posted January 16, 2017 08:27:38 | Updated January 16, 2017 13:05:10

  An explosive device uncovered by police at a shopping centre on Queensland's Gold Coast is identified as fireworks.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mudgeeraba-4213, qld, australia, southport-4215

• Man shot in Sydney after 'altercation between a number of males'

  Posted January 15, 2017 23:17:08 | Updated January 16, 2017 06:59:45

  A man aged in his 20s is shot at Jannali in Sydney's south after an "altercation between a number of males", police say.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, jannali-2226, sydney-2000, nsw

• NZ father charged over Australia voyage as mother and daughter reunited

  By Jean Kennedy

  Posted January 15, 2017 18:07:55 | Updated January 16, 2017 13:27:20

  A man who sailed across the Tasman Sea with his six-year-old daughter has been charged by New Zealand police with taking a child from the country.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, children, new-zealand, ulladulla-2539, nsw, australia

• Jump in domestic violence incidents over holidays, shelter says

  By Nadia Daly

  Posted January 15, 2017 16:40:03 | Updated January 15, 2017 16:54:19

  The number of domestic violence incidents being reported increased in Darwin over the holidays, according to a shelter which received a spike in calls for help in the lead up to and directly after Christmas.

  Topics: domestic-violence, crime, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800

• Don Dale detainee flown to Melbourne after medical emergency

  Posted January 15, 2017 11:57:12 | Updated January 15, 2017 16:59:37

  A child on remand at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin is flown to Melbourne after a medical emergency overnight.

  Topics: emergency-incidents, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, melbourne-3000

• Police find stolen car involved in daylight jewellery store robbery

  Posted January 15, 2017 10:54:23

  The stolen getaway car used in the second armed robbery of a jewellery store in Toorak in a matter of months, is found by police in Collingwood.

  Topics: crime, armed-robbery, law-crime-and-justice, police, toorak-3142, collingwood-3066, melbourne-3000

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