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| UpdatedThe Brighton siege gunman told police he had a bomb and would kill his hostage if officers stormed the apartment he was holed up in, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, brighton-3186, melbourne-3000, vic
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Scammers impersonating National Broadband Network staff are attempting to con unsuspecting consumers into handing over sensitive personal identification details.
Topics: consumer-protection, internet-technology, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, australia
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US authorities charge a 25-year-old man with trying to blow up a Confederate statue, federal prosecutors say, in the latest development amid demonstrations and fierce debate about race and the legacy of America's Civil War.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, vandalism, donald-trump, race-relations, community-and-society, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedA new authority will keep watch over Victoria's worst sex offenders after their release from prison, taking over the responsibility from the state's parole board.
Topics: community-and-society, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe family of a 70-year-old woman found dead at Kew on Monday appeal for privacy to deal with the "tragic matter" which happened in the company of a person she considered a friend.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, kew-3101, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA Queensland couple who were listed among 19 of Australia's most wanted criminals in the latest Crime Stoppers campaign are arrested in South Australia.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, sa
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government announces a raft of measures designed to stem rural crime rates in country New South Wales.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, agricultural-prices, orange-2800, tamworth-2340, nsw
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| UpdatedA man who was shot by police for brandishing a toy gun at a Melbourne nightclub during an "erotic fancy ball" appears to have used the prop in a joke with bar staff earlier that night, new security vision reveals.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000
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Committal proceedings get underway for four men charged over a plot to attack central sites in Melbourne, including Federation Square, at Christmas last year.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, terrorism, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA convicted rapist who drugged a Victorian mother, injected her with battery acid and set her on fire, killing her, was motivated by his sexual interest in her, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, wangaratta-3677, vic, whorouly-3735
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Jamie McCrossen, Tasmania's longest-serving "dangerous criminal", faces a move to a secure mental health unit as part of a new bid to have his indefinite jail term overturned.
Topics: crime, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, tas
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| UpdatedFive teenagers are charged with manslaughter over a fatal hit-and-run at Parafield in Adelaide's northern suburbs that killed AnglicareSA care worker Lucy Paveley while she was driving to work.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, accidents, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, disasters-and-accidents, parafield-5106, adelaide-5000, sa
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The man jailed for at least 30 years for the "heinous, chilling and grotesque" stabbing murder of Morgan Huxley in Sydney's Neutral Bay in 2013 has sought to have his sentence reduced by 10 years.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, neutral-bay-2089
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Roo meat pies, organised crime and 1980s Queensland cops: the disappearance of the Andy Komarnicki had everything — but 37 years later, his body has never been found.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, food-and-beverage, st-george-4487
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| UpdatedVolunteer firefighter Nathaniel Hendrik Brouwer pleads not guilty to charges related to a blaze that destroyed a Tasmanian rural fire station.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000, tas, middleton-7163
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| UpdatedThree teenagers are arrested after an allegedly stolen four-wheel-drive kills a 40-year-old woman in a road smash and the offenders flee in a second stolen vehicle.
Topics: traffic-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, parafield-5106, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAn increasing number of victims of crime are meeting their offenders behind bars in the search for closure as part of Canberra's restorative justice program.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, crime, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAn 18-year-old Moroccan man arrested over knife attacks that killed two people in Finland appears to have specifically targeted women, say police, who are treating the incident as terrorism-related.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, finland
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The boss of Victoria Police's counter-terrorism command acknowledges the "significant challenge" of protecting people in crowded public spaces in the wake of the Spain terror attacks.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, states-and-territories, police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedSouth Australian police appeal for any dashcam vision taken along a major highway which might help their investigation of the suspected murder of mother-of-two Tanja Ebert.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, missing-person, suicide, community-and-society, manna-hill-5440, rosewater-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
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A man who dumped his son's body in an outback mine and later claimed he thought the toddler was possessed is granted supervised release from a psychiatric facility.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, domestic-violence, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sa, coober-pedy-5723, perth-6000, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion by India's top court gives birth in a case that has drawn outrage about the sexual abuse of children.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, india, asia