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A man has been sentenced to prison over an attack that left another man with a fractured skull and cognitive impairment in Victoria's north west.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedRobert Adams, 64, will serve at least 15 years in jail for the murder of Sydney nurse Mary Wallace more than 30 years ago.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crows-nest-2065
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| UpdatedA man who killed a woman in a head-on crash and injured her two young children while over the legal blood alcohol limit is jailed for four and a half years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road, landsdale-6065
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Amber Harrison's planned counter claim against Seven West Media could contain "scurrilous and scandalous material", the NSW Supreme Court is told.
Topics: media, industry, business-economics-and-finance, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, nsw
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| UpdatedDetective Superintendent Michael O'Dowd confirms that in a "sad set of circumstances" a 24-year-old nanny sexually assaulted in Brisbane last year has died in a traffic incident in Poland days before her alleged attacker has appeared in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, poland
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| UpdatedLeonard John Warwick formally pleads not guilty to a string of murders and bombings in Sydney in the 1980s.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedHigh level drug dealer and standover man Rocco Arico is sentenced to 14 years' jail for extortion and drug trafficking, and will likely be deported back to Italy when he is released.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, brunswick-3056, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA Brisbane man tells the Supreme Court his first thought upon discovering the body of his daughter on his lounge room floor was to get rid of a bong before calling police.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA 41-year-old Canberra man changes his plea over the death of another man at the Stuart Flats in Griffith last year.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, griffith-2603, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedEven from across the globe in London Lloyd Rayney has been recognised, his multi-million-dollar defamation trial hears, as the Perth barrister reveals the stress at being named the "prime and only suspect" in his wife's murder.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA decorated ex-Army sergeant has been told to 'rot in hell' after being jailed in Newcastle for a 2014 stabbing murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, windale-2306, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
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| UpdatedFormer trainee soldier Alexander Gall is found not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a colleague during a training exercise at Sydney's Holsworthy Barracks in 2012.
Topics: army, defence-forces, courts-and-trials, holsworthy-2173, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedCaleb Jakobsson pleads guilty to hitting and killing a mother-of-two with his mini-motorbike at a Melbourne shopping centre.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, carrum-downs-3201, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe corporate regulator says it has been investigating up to 11 lenders over their home lending practices, after announcing court action against Westpac.
Topics: banking, regulation, housing-industry, courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian man who tried to seduce a 14-year-old girl over Facebook is added to the sex offenders register and sentenced to community service.
Topics: courts-and-trials, child-abuse, tas
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The Tasmanian Government is moving to broaden the definition of rape in legislation to be introduced in April, making the charge more gender-neutral and to recognise a raft of non-consensual sex acts.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, hobart-7000, tas
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Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik loses a human rights case, with an appeals court overturning a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, norway
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The West Australian coroner says he is unable to determine if the care of post-surgical patient Christine Stroner at Fremantle Hospital may have contributed to her death after she was discharged.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, courts-and-trials, death, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA Brisbane father who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his three-year-old girl locked her in a bedroom using rope while he slept in the day, and would slap her like an adult, his sentencing hearing is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedLengthy delays in obtaining psychiatric reports are delaying the finalisation of serious court cases and keeping disadvantaged defendants on remand, South Australian lawyers and judges warn.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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Sicen Sun, 27, was arrested and charged with various offences relating to the manufacture of firearms using a 3D printer. after detectives searched his Waverley unit in Sydney's east.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, computers-and-technology, waverley-2024
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Australia's peak shearing body says animal cruelty cases heard in western Victoria this week has forever changed the industry.
Topics: sheep-production, courts-and-trials, animal-welfare, horsham-3400
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| UpdatedPerth barrister Lloyd Rayney suffered a "dreadful stain on his reputation" after being named as a suspect in his wife's death, the WA Supreme Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, kings-park-6005, como-6152