Melanie Kembrey is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
If you ignored the prison greens, Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai might have seemed as if he was in a quiet study cubicle at a library as he was jailed for 18 years over a shooting at a gay nightclub in western Sydney.
An Australian soldier says his colleague was driving an army truck "way too fast" shortly before it flipped killing a 22-year-old trainee.
With bodies, rifles and backpacks strewn in the bush land around him, trainee soldier Alexander Gall was allegedly heard to say: "This is all my fault. These people are going to die. I'm done. I was going too fast.
A Sydney Uber driver accused of raping a sleeping woman in the back seat of his car says she told him he was handsome and that she wanted to have sex while he protested that he had a family.
Graeme Wilton, 56, had spent two and half years travelling around Australia with his wife when they stopped at a caravan park in Lake Macquarie in December 2013.
Amirah Droudis, the partner of Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis, has been jailed for the murder of his former wife in the stairwell of an apartment block in western Sydney.
Steven Ayshow allegedly murdered Ian Stanbury in his housing commission apartment after a dispute over the drug ice.
A  man charged after a stash of drugs, cash and stolen credit cards were allegedly found in properties across Sydney CBD will remain behind bars after failing to convince a registrar to release him.
A police officer who was left with traumatic brain injuries after a truck ploughed into her car on Sydney's northern beaches says she will never forgive the driver for stealing the last months she had to spend with her dying mother.
A Sydney Uber driver stopped at a petrol station to buy condoms and a bottle of water before he allegedly raped a sleeping drunk woman in the back seat of his car, a court has head.
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