Murder and Manslaughter
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Police refuse to brief Rayney on wife's murder case review
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WA police are refusing to provide Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney with a report on the cold case review into the unsolved murder of his wife, a Supreme Court hearing his defamation action against the state is told.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, wa
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Man who killed nurse 'in prime of her life' sentenced to 20 years in prison
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Robert 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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Mother extradited as search of Murray River continues for son
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A mother allegedly told onlookers "I had to drown my babies" after holding her two children under the water in the Murray River on the Victoria-New South Wales border, a court hears.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, moama-2731
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Accused Family Court bomber formally pleads not guilty over murders and bombings
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Leonard 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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Shotgun killer who wrote victim's name on shell jailed
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A man who shot his girlfriend using a cartridge bearing her name and stole drugs from her as she lay dying in a West Perth car park is sentenced to at least 20 years' jail.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, perth-6000, wa
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'Get rid of the bong': Man recalls reaction to finding daughter dead
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A 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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'I am guilty': Canberra man owns up to murder
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A 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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'You look just like a murderer': Rayney defamation trial hears of 'unimaginable' stress
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Even 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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Ex-Army sergeant jailed for murder near Newcastle
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A 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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North Korea pressures Malaysia over Kim Jong-nam's murder Video
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Beverley O'Connor gets the latest from Reuters deputy bureau chief for Malaysia, A Ananthalakshmi, in the murder case of the half-brother of North Korea's leader.
Topics: foreign-affairs, murder-and-manslaughter, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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Mass killer Anders Breivik loses human rights case against Norway
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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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Myanmar army denies ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
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Myanmar's military uses a rare news conference to defend its crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority as a lawful counterinsurgency operation, claiming villagers does not know about any human rights abuses.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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Taylor apologises to slain police officer's family in address to court
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David Taylor tells the Denpasar District Court he is sorry to "the beautiful country of Bali and all the people who live here and to the police force and the colleagues of Wayan Sudarsa".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, bali, indonesia
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Rope used to lock 3yo in room while dad slept, manslaughter sentencing hears
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A 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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Lloyd Rayney suffered 'stain on reputation', defamation trial hears
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Perth 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
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Two women charged over Kim Jong-nam's murder
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A Malaysian court charges two women — one Indonesian and one Vietnamese — with murder over their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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Gold Coast man to face NSW court over wife's death in car accident
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A man is extradited to New South Wales, where he is wanted for allegedly murdering his wife by driving their car into a river.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, road, southport-4215, tweed-heads-2485, lismore-2480
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WA doctor who killed abusive husband with mallet walks free
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A Sri Lankan-born doctor who killed her abusive husband in Western Australia's Mid West speaks publicly for the first time after being released from prison, saying she is looking forward to a "peaceful life".
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, murder-and-manslaughter, domestic-violence, greenough-6532, geraldton-6530, wa
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Bali murder accused 'scared' when she let boyfriend burn clothes
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The Australian woman standing trial for the murder of a Bali police officer says she let her boyfriend burn bloodstained clothing because she was scared and was thinking of her children.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, bali
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Jail for NT man who bashed, stabbed ex-girlfriend in face
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A man who drunkenly bashed the mother of his children with a chair in Darwin's Bagot community and later stabbed her in the face with a steak knife because he felt "slighted", is jailed for more than three years.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, darwin-0800, bagot-0820
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Defamed? How the case against Rayney unfolded
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The murder of court registrar Corryn Rayney was one of the biggest legal cases ever heard in Perth, both in the scope of its criminal investigation, and the closeness of the media coverage.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa
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Rayney seeks redress over police 'prime and only suspect' claim
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney was cleared of murdering his wife Corryn five years after her body was found buried in Kings Park — and is now launching a multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, wa, kings-park-6005
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Sword found in Melbourne shopping centre killing investigation
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A sword believed to have been used to kill a man at a Melbourne shopping centre is found by police, and investigators release more CCTV as part of a search for the victim's brother.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000, vic
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'Living death': Gordon Wood attacked in jail, court hears
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Gordon Wood says he was bashed in jail by a notorious rapist and killer before being acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend Caroline Byrne, a statement released by the NSW Supreme Court reveals.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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Women to be charged over Kim Jong-nam nerve agent assassination
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Two women will be charged with murder over their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader at Kuala Lumpur's main airport, Malaysia's Attorney-General says.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, vietnam, asia, indonesia, pacific
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