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A man with autism who murdered his "controlling and demeaning" father with a dumbbell is not a cruel, calculating killer, his lawyer says.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, port-noarlunga-5167, adelaide-5000, sa
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A 42-year-old man has been arrested in relation to alleged terrorism offences at Young, west of Canberra, having allegedly tried to assist the Islamic State group to develop missiles.
Topics: crime, terrorism, young-2594
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Topics: terrorism, crime, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war
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| UpdatedA 42-year-old man is arrested for allegedly seeking to advise the Islamic State group on how to develop high-tech weaponry, including long-range guided missiles, at Young, north-west of Canberra.
Topics: terrorism, police-sieges, crime, law-crime-and-justice, young-2594, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe man convicted of Adelaide girl Louise Bell's 1983 murder argues DNA technology advances still leave doubt about the case made against him.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, hackham-5163, adelaide-5000, sa
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A 15-year-old boy becomes the third youth arrested over the violent robbery of an elderly woman in Alice Springs.
Topics: crime, community-and-society, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedSenior Brothers 4 Life gang members Mumtaz and Farhad Qaumi refuse to enter the dock as a judge finds them guilty of the 2013 shooting murder of a standover man in western Sydney.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man who murdered his friend's mother in her family home in a "vicious, gruesome and cowardly attack" is sentenced to 22 years' jail with a non-parole period of 17 years.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, hoppers-crossing-3029, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedNew South Wales Police plan to charge a Queensland man with the murder of a woman, who died days after the car she was a passenger in veered off a road and plunged into the Tweed River two years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, tumbulgum-2490, nsw, qld, bonogin-4213
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Byron Bay woman Sara Connor will directly address judges in her murder trial today in a bid to avoid a possible 15-year jail sentence for her role in the death of a Bali police officer.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, bali, australia
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| UpdatedThe Border Force Commissioner defends his agency's decision to ban all mobile phone use in the nation's onshore detention centres, arguing it is a way of cracking down on crime within the facilities.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, crime, mobile-phones, information-and-communication, australia, christmas-island
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Ajai Sahni from the Institute for Conflict Management about the arrest of two men in India for alleged links to the Islamic State group.
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An Australian man allegedly caught with 7 grams of hashish in Bali tells the court he did not realise "it was such a big criminal offence" and that he uses it to manage back pain.
Topics: crime, drug-offences, bali, australia, indonesia
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Truck driver Kenneth Pillar, found guilty of causing a head-on fatal crash, appears to collapse in the dock after being charged with breaching fatigue management policies.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, sa, vic
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Police in Papua New Guinea appeal for help to capture Joshua Kaluvia, one of the killers of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati, after he escaped from jail for a second time.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedFormer Adelaide real estate agent David Parkinson, who stole $1.8 million from his clients, is labelled "cold-hearted" and "manipulative" by his victims during a pre-sentencing hearing.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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A man who was allegedly armed and on the run after the discovery of a drug laboratory in Melbourne's north-west surrenders to police.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, st-albans-3021, sydney-2000
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An Adelaide man was stabbed in the neck and killed by his brother after intervening in a domestic violence incident, a Supreme Court trial is told.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, gilles-plains-5086, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFrom love bombing and ether states, these are the emotional traps scammers are using against us.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia
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WA's criminal offender rate surges 8 per cent, bucking a nationwide decline, with police suggesting the spike could be related to the high rate of ice use in the state.
Topics: crime, police, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido bikie Lionel Patea pleads guilty to murder after running his ex-partner's car off the road and bashing her with a metal plate while she was trapped in the wreckage.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, molendinar-4214, southport-4215
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| UpdatedPolice search for an armed man who is believed to have shot at officers as they attempted to execute a search warrant targeting international drug traffickers in Melbourne's north-west.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, st-albans-3021, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused "very serious paralysis", Malaysia's Health Minister says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedA man is attacked with a hammer and robbed by two men after they ran into the back of his car in Melbourne's north-east early this morning.
Topics: crime, bulleen-3105, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA mother tells her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, family, family-and-children, community-and-society, babies, drug-offences, crime, maldon-3463