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A Hobart jury has found Klaus Dieter Neubert, 74, guilty of the shooting murder of his estranged wife Olga, 37, in a Hobart street in 2015.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, new-town-7008
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| UpdatedAlthough details are still uncertain over how and why the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was killed, government officials and independent experts all say the assassination looks like the work of North Korean agents.
Topics: death, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, malaysia, united-states
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| UpdatedNorth Korea expert Aidan Foster-Carter said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, did not pose a threat to the regime and his suspected assassination in Malaysia has come as a surprise to some experts.
Topics: word-or-number-games, murder-and-manslaughter, forms-of-government, law-crime-and-justice, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, malaysia
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| UpdatedThe half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is dead after being reportedly assassinated by two chemical-wielding female North Korean agents in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, murder-and-manslaughter, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedCarl Williams organised for underworld figure Graham Kinniburgh to be killed 13 years ago after a failed bid to have gangland rival Lewis Moran murdered, a court hears, as Stephen Asling stands trial for murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, kew-3101
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| UpdatedKlaus Dieter Neubert, who allegedly shot his wife dead on a busy Hobart road, was not in a "murderous rage" his lawyer tells court in closing statements at his trial.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, hobart-7000, tas
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A man who admitted killing Daniel Hind before putting his body in a wheelie bin in Adelaide's northern suburbs tells a court the victim "took a swing" at him before he retaliated, but he "didn't mean for Daniel to die".
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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The man accused of murdering missing WA teenager Hayley Dodd 18 years ago wants to be tried by judge alone, instead of a jury.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, wa, perth-6000, badgingarra-6521
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A man who beat another man to death after coming to the aid of two women who were being sexually assaulted is jailed for 12 years, in what the judge describes as a vicious and cruel beating.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, beaumont-5066
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| UpdatedLin family killer Robert Xie, who murdered five members of his family, is given five life sentences without the possibility of parole, while his wife says he is innocent and a "scapegoat" for the crimes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, family-and-children, courts-and-trials, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw
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A Coburg man is charged with murder following the death of a 73-year-old man in Melbourne's north.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, coburg-3058
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A Sydney woman is charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter, just months after charges were laid against her de-facto partner over the girl's death.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, guildford-west-2161
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| UpdatedAustralian kickboxer Antonio Bagnato will lodge an appeal after being sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a former Hell's Angels bikie and suspected drug trafficker in Thailand.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, death, thailand, australia
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A man convicted of murdering Adelaide teenager Deborah Leach more than 40 years ago is granted permission to appeal against his conviction in the High Court.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA man accused of shooting and killing his wife on a busy road in Hobart tells police he intended to shoot himself in front of his wife, a court hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe crown prosecutor asks a judge to hand Robert Xie, who bludgeoned five members of his family to death, a life sentence for each of the murders.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, sydney-2000
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George Sloane is found guilty of murdering Renee Mitchell near Newcastle in 2014 and dumping her body in a park.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, windale-2306
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| UpdatedA Brisbane man who punched his neighbour over playing loud music is found not guilty of manslaughter.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, boondall-4034, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA man who has previously been tried and acquitted of the murders of two Aboriginal children at Bowraville, on the NSW mid-north coast in the early 1990s, is again charged with their murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, laws, bowraville-2449
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The accused murderer of Adelaide man Daniel Hind, whose body was found in a wheelie bin, pleads guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe 42-year-old former partner of missing far north Queensland woman Leann Lapham is charged with her murder almost seven years after her disappearance.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, missing-person, innisfail-4860, cairns-4870
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Antonio Bagnato, the kickboxer convicted of murdering a suspected drug kingpin in Pattaya, is the first Australian on death row in Thailand in 30 years but experts say he is unlikely to actually face lethal injection.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, international-law, thailand, australia
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| UpdatedA woman with autism is acquitted of manslaughter over the death of her elderly mother who lay on the floor of their home without food and water for several days after a fall.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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A key witness in the murder trial of Sydney property developer Ron Medich says he became suspicious of two former police officers he had recruited to get money out of the accused, a Sydney court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, cremorne-2090, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe family of a man brutally killed in the car park of a Melbourne shopping centre last week were so distressed they did not recognise his brother in CCTV footage captured at the scene, police say.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, murder-and-manslaughter, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000