Jessica Kidd
Jessica Kidd is the police reporter for ABC News in New South Wales, filing for television, radio and online.
Knuckle dusters, throwing stars seized during raids targeting bikie gang
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Police seize more than 70 illegal weapons including knuckle dusters, machetes and metal throwing stars in a series of raids targeting the Lone Wolf bikie gang at Lismore in northern New South Wales.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, lismore-3324, nsw
What are the chances of Catherine Burn getting the top cop job? Analysis
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With Catherine Burn's confirmation she is applying to become NSW's next top cop, ABC's police reporter Jessica Kidd explains why the candidate has faced so much public criticism.
Body of former Rebels bikie 'with price on head' believed found
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Ricky Ciano, who survived an attempt on his life and subsequently relocated to Queensland, is found dead in a car in the NSW Central Tablelands, the ABC understands, with a friend saying he "ran out of places to hide".
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
What is double jeopardy and why is it important with the Bowraville murders?
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The legal quirk of double jeopardy has proven to be a stumbling block throughout the Bowraville case. Find out why it's taken so long to return to court.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, courts-and-trials, state-parliament, parliament, sydney-2000
Islamic 'Bonnie and Clyde' face terrorism charges in Sydney
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A married couple who refer to themselves as the "Islamic Bonnie and Clyde" are charged with conspiring to plan a terrorist attack.
Topics: terrorism, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, police, sydney-2000
Man charged over All Blacks hotel-room bugging
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A man, understood to be a security consultant for New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, is charged over a listening device found in the team's Sydney hotel room during last year's Bledisloe Cup.
Topics: rugby-union, sport, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, nsw
The 'Game of Thrones' race to be NSW top cop
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With the retirement of NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione now official, all eyes are turning to who might take over. Here are the contenders.
Topics: police, state-parliament, nsw
New counter-terrorism ministry a factional 'farce'
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's decision to create a separate portfolio for counter-terrorism has taken the state's police force by surprise, sources have told the ABC, as the Opposition labels it a "farce" driven by factional deals.
Topics: police, state-parliament, parliament, nsw
Australia's largest Islamic school loses federal funding after unsuccessful appeal
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The future of Sydney's Malek Fahd Islamic School — the country's largest Islamic school — is now under a cloud after the Federal Government's decision to revoke its funding was upheld.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, education, secondary-schools, community-and-society, greenacre-2190, nsw, sydney-2000
Third suspicious fire at business with links to Eddie Obeid
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Police say the third suspicious fire at a Bankstown business with links to corrupt former politician Eddie Obeid had several ignition points.
Topics: fires, industrial-fires, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, bankstown-2200
Elderly inmate charged after allegedly bashing 71yo cellmate to death with sandwich press
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John Walsh, 77, is charged with murder after allegedly bashing to death his 71-year-old cellmate with a sandwich press in the frail aged unit at Sydney's Long Bay jail complex.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, assault, matraville-2036, maroubra-2035
Fireworks won't worry these horses on New Year's Eve
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The NSW Police horses are regularly exposed to loud noises, smoke, flashing lights and people in order to prepare them for nights like this.
Topics: police, animals, sydney-2000, nsw
Body of missing man found in NSW river
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The body of a 27-year-old man who disappeared while swimming with a friend in the Kangaroo River near Bendeela in New South Wales is found.
Topics: missing-person, police, kangaroo-valley-2577
Man dies of serious injuries on footpath in Sydney's west
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A man, found lying unconscious on a footpath in Sydney's west, dies at the scene from serious injuries leaving police to piece together what happened.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, death, lidcombe-2141, sydney-2000, nsw
Christmas eve toddler death could be suspicious: police
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A three-year-old girl dies in Westmead Hospital after being found unresponsive in a car outside her Sydney family home on Saturday evening, and police are treating it as suspicious.
Topics: police, family-and-children, children, death, glenwood-2768
Catherine Burn has mixed reaction to NSW Ombudsman report
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Deputy NSW Police Commissioner Cath Burn says she has been exonerated from accusations of "dishonest and corrupt conduct" but has rejected other adverse findings surrounding her performance.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, nsw
'Too hard' to pull former top cop out of bugging report
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Retired Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas is "right at the centre" of the NSW Ombudsman's report into illegal police bugging, the Supreme Court has heard, as the former top cop battles to keep the investigation findings from being released.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
Bias claims directed at judge presiding over NSW police bugging case
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Lawyers for retired deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas say the NSW Ombudsman's report into illegal police bugging is a "stitch-up".
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
Man found guilty of funding terror in Australian-first legal case
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For the first time in Australia, a man has been convicted of providing material support to the terrorist group Islamic State to fund fighters' trips to Syria, after arranging to send thousands of dollars overseas.
Topics: terrorism, law-crime-and-justice, crime, sydney-2000
Nick Kaldas claims small win in attempt to block bugging report
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Retired deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas claims a minor victory in his fight to stop the publication of a report into illegal police bugging, with the New South Wales Ombudsman promising not to release the document until the matter is heard in court.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
Former top cop Kaldas tries to block police-bugging report
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Former deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas is seeking a Supreme Court injunction to prevent the NSW ombudsman from publishing his report into the long-running police-bugging scandal.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, sydney-2000
Breakthrough in 47yo case of missing toddler Cheryl Grimmer
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Detectives identify a new suspect in the abduction of a three-year-old girl from a beach on the New South Wales south coast almost 50 years ago.
Topics: missing-person, family, crime, police, fairy-meadow-2519
Men make up 90pc of coastal drownings in Australia
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The number of drownings in the Australian surf has surged over the past year, with data showing men now account for almost 90 per cent of deaths on the coast.
Topics: death, community-and-society, accidents---other, maritime, australia
Strike Force Grassy seizes $2.5m worth of cannabis
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NSW Police seize cannabis with a street value of more than $2.5 million and uncover more than half a dozen drug houses they allege are part of a major cultivation and distribution network operating across Sydney.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, guildford-2161, miranda-2228, kogarah-2217, north-strathfield-2137, peakhurst-2210, padstow-2211, yagoona-2199, beverly-hills-2209, granville-2142, bankstown-2200, sydney-2000, nsw
Four men charged with murder of Sydney gangland figure
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Four men, aged between 18 and 29, are charged with the murder of Sydney underworld figure Pasquale Barbaro (pictured), following a series of raids yesterday in response to several gangland shootings in the city.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police
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