Law, Crime and Justice

• Autistic man who killed father not a 'callous killer'

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 28, 2017 17:12:19

  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

• Young property terrorism arrest image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 28, 2017 16:30:35

  Topics: terrorism, crime, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war

• Terror accused who 'advised IS on missiles' arrested in rural NSW

  By Jordan Hayne

  Posted February 28, 2017 15:31:08 | Updated February 28, 2017 17:15:23

  A 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

• Louise Bell's killer argues trial had DNA shortfalls

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 28, 2017 14:16:24 | Updated February 28, 2017 15:25:43

  The 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

• Andrew John Sheals outside Burnie Magistrates Court image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 28, 2017 13:22:46

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice

• Learner driver charged over crash that killed girlfriend and baby faces court

  Posted February 28, 2017 13:22:46 | Updated February 28, 2017 17:02:01

  A 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

• SA appoints commissioner to lead Indigenous treaty process

  By Ruby Jones

  Posted February 28, 2017 13:00:59 | Updated February 28, 2017 15:29:55

  South Australia names senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas as the state's treaty commissioner, to draft a proposed framework after negotiating with Indigenous communities.

  Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa

• Brothers 4 Life gang members found guilty of murdering standover man

  By David Marchese

  Posted February 28, 2017 12:52:06 | Updated February 28, 2017 14:31:05

  Senior 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

• Queensland Government drops appeal against Palm Island riots racism ruling

  By Chris O'Brien

  Posted February 28, 2017 12:01:41 | Updated February 28, 2017 12:09:57

  The 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

• Man jailed for 22 years over 'brutal, unprovoked' murder of friend's mum (photos)

  By Guy Stayner

  Posted February 28, 2017 10:43:54 | Updated February 28, 2017 13:21:22

  A 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

• Police to lay murder charge over 2015 crash into river

  By Clare Mathie

  Posted February 28, 2017 09:29:37 | Updated February 28, 2017 12:28:11

  New 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

• $100k taxpayer payout for SA inmate over 'worsening diabetes'

  Posted February 28, 2017 08:14:52

  A drug trafficker is awarded $100,000 in compensation after he says his diabetes worsened while in prison, but crime victims and lawyers might get all of that money.

  Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa

• Man charged with attempted murder after Melbourne drug raids

  Posted February 28, 2017 07:46:45 | Updated February 28, 2017 13:33:17

  A man is charged with attempted murder, and four others are charged with drug offences, following police raids in Melbourne over an alleged international drug trafficking syndicate.

  Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, st-albans-3021, vic, sydney-2000

• Tennis Australia to set up help line for alleged victims of abuse

  By national sport correspondent Mary Gearin

  Posted February 28, 2017 00:32:17 | Updated February 28, 2017 00:55:16

  Tennis Australia is hoping to set up a Crimestoppers-style hotline within the next few weeks for athletes allegedly abused by coaches and others who have control over them, the ABC has learned.

  Topics: tennis, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, australia

• WA doctor who killed abusive husband granted parole

  By Sebastian Neuweiler

  Posted February 27, 2017 20:44:42

  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

• Truck driver who caused fatal Murray Bridge crash faces fatigue management charges

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 27, 2017 18:14:38

  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

• One of Reza Barati's killers escapes prison for second time

  By Papua New Guinea correspondent Eric Tlozek

  Posted February 27, 2017 17:53:49

  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

• Victims face 'cold-hearted' real estate agent after $1.8m theft

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 27, 2017 17:39:16 | Updated February 27, 2017 18:05:45

  Former 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

• Man hands himself in after St Albans home raided by police

  Posted February 27, 2017 17:35:28

  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

• Canberra inmate choked after taking methadone behind bars, inquest hears

  Posted February 27, 2017 16:03:49 | Updated February 27, 2017 17:28:51

  An inquest into the death in custody of Indigenous man Steven Freeman hears he took a toxic level of methadone, which was given to him inside prison despite a lack of evidence he was addicted to opioids.

  Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, australia

• Universities 'take plagiarism more seriously than rape', advocacy group says

  By Danuta Kozaki

  Posted February 27, 2017 15:33:45 | Updated February 27, 2017 16:27:46

  With thousands of new students starting university this week, an advocacy group claims violence against women is rife on Australian campuses, and there is a culture of covering up claims.

  Topics: university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, education, sydney-2000, the-university-of-sydney-2006, nsw, australia

• Cybercrime victims 'on their own' as police fail to follow up cases

  Lateline

  By Matt Wordsworth

  Posted February 27, 2017 14:41:58 | Updated February 28, 2017 00:33:34

  If you get scammed online it is likely you will never hear from police, let alone see justice done to the culprits, according to the head of Australia and New Zealand's cybercrime helpline.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia

• Adelaide man who stabbed brother cradled him as he died, court told

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 27, 2017 14:38:14

  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

• These are the emotional traps to watch out for in scams

  Lateline

  Posted February 27, 2017 14:23:02 | Updated February 27, 2017 17:00:47

  From 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

• Gordon Wood takes stand for first time, says he felt 'unsafe' after acquittal (video)

  By court reporter Jamelle Wells

  Posted February 27, 2017 12:07:34 | Updated February 27, 2017 16:01:27

  Gordon 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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