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A tram passenger ignored a young tourist's pleas for help as she was allegedly assaulted and later repeatedly raped in Fitzroy by a man who had released on bail the previous day, a court has heard.
Minutes after fatally striking a visiting Sydney woman on a Melbourne street and then fleeing the scene, a drink-driver posted on Facebook that he was going to jail - and sent photos of his injuries to his friends.
A prominent music festival promoter has been fined $12,000 for trafficking drugs he claimed were to help him meditate, after a magistrate told him his actions were "putting lives at risk".
A woman who stabbed the elderly man she shared a squalid home with more than 20 times while arguing over money for cigarettes has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for his murder.
A mother accused of murdering her 14-month-old daughter was told by a Fijian imam that the toddler was possessed by an "evil spirit", police say.
Mother Sofina Nikat could have smothered her 14-month-old daughter Sanaya when she allegedly killed her, a court has heard.
A man dragged his pregnant girlfriend by the hair towards a creek "so nobody would hear her screams", Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard.
A man who whipped and prostituted two teenage girls has been freed to live in the community without supervision for the first time in almost 20 years.
A woman accused of murdering her husband told police she was asleep beside him while her friend allegedly poured cyanide-laced orange juice down his throat, a court has heard.
A man who fatally crashed his mini-motorbike into a woman on a pedestrian crossing was out in the community on bail for nine months despite drink-driving in breach of his bail conditions, in can be revealed.
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