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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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| 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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Former Young Queenslander of the Year Jean Madden says she will continue fighting charges she misappropriated more than $440,000 from a charity she founded, adding she has "never done a dishonest thing in my life".
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000
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Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian learner driver appears in a Burnie court over a 2016 crash that killed his teenage girlfriend and their infant son.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, burnie-7320, tas
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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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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government scraps its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that police were racist in their response to riots sparked by the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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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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| UpdatedA West Australian police officer convicted two years ago of unlawfully using a tracking device to monitor a mate's girlfriend is awarded almost $15,000 in legal costs after successfully appealing against the decision.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido Lionel Patea, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Tara Brown, has a history of breaching domestic violence orders and attacked the young Gold Coast mother a week before killing her.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, qld, molendinar-4214, brisbane-4000
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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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| 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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| UpdatedSupreme Court Justice Debra Mullins sentences former Bandido bikie Lionel Patea to life in jail for the bashing murder of his ex-partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
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As Gordon Wood takes the stand in his case against the state of NSW, take a look back at the main events which led to his conviction and later acquittal of the murder of Caroline Byrne.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, 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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| UpdatedGordon Wood was paranoid police would try to "stitch him up again" after he was acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend Caroline Byrne, the Supreme Court is told.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, suicide, sydney-2000, nsw
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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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A 31-year-old Canberra man is charged with assaulting his former partner three times over the past month, all witnessed at close range by their sons aged two and four.
Topics: domestic-violence, courts-and-trials, assault, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedPolice accuse a Brisbane man of deliberately grabbing the steering wheel of his ex-girlfriend's car, causing it to crash head-on into a ute and leaving her seriously injured.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedIt would be unreasonable to expect former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink to fly in an economy-sized seat to Australia to face a public examination into the refinery's collapse, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedFormer doctor Graeme Reeves, who is on trial for manslaughter, says he made a mistake when he misdiagnosed a mother who later died, but was not criminally negligent.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, doctors-and-medical-professionals, courts-and-trials, baulkham-hills-2153, sydney-2000, nsw
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A Perth taxi driver is jailed for sexually assaulting a female passenger who fell asleep in his cab.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA woman is rushed to hospital after taking a potentially deadly drug, similar to the substance that killed three people in Melbourne last month, that was falsely sold as MDMA.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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Singer Shannon Noll is excused for not attending his first court hearing after being arrested for allegedly assaulting a bouncer outside an Adelaide strip club.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, assault, crime, music, arts-and-entertainment, adelaide-5000