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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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| 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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| 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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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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A woman who killed her abusive husband in Western Australia's Mid West is set to be released from prison within days after her parole was approved.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, wa, geraldton-6530
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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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| 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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| 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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| UpdatedAn Indonesian woman detained in Malaysia in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam says she was paid about $120 to take part in what she thought was a prank television show.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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A man who shot dead his estranged wife on a busy Hobart road shows no remorse, continually outlining a litany of complaints about her to police, a court hears.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, tas
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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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| UpdatedA Horsham man is sentenced to nine years and six months' jail for killing his ex-partner's three-year-old daughter by stepping on her in a spontaneous act of violence.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, horsham-3400
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| UpdatedAcquitted of the murder of his girlfriend, Gordon Wood is back in court in Sydney, suing the state for malicious prosecution. But what is the basis for his case and what has happened so far?
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, watsons-bay-2030, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe "crisis of violence in Aboriginal families" must stop with the current teenage generation, says a judge who has sentenced a young man for murdering his girlfriend.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, port-augusta-5700, yalata-5690, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe violent murder of Tara Costigan at the hands of her former partner Marcus Rappel shocked and devastated Canberra. But what has changed in the years since her death?
Topics: domestic-violence, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA judge describes the actions of Marcus Rappel, who killed his ex-partner Tara Costigan with an axe in her Canberra home while she held their week-old daughter, as being "vicious and cowardly".
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, domestic-violence, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA preliminary report shows the murder of Kim Jong-nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent, Malaysian police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, crime, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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| UpdatedA man accused of killing remote outback nurse Gayle Woodford in South Australia's APY Lands pleads guilty in the Port Augusta Magistrates Court.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, fregon-872, port-augusta-5700, sa