Courts
'The hallmarks of tragedy': Sydney lawyer disqualified after drug conviction
A high-achieving criminal lawyer has been disqualified from the legal profession after being found guilty of drug supply charges.
- by Ben Weir
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Road safety
'Akin to a war zone': Twelve years jail for Hunter truck crash driver who led police on dangerous pursuit
"It's astonishing that no one was killed," the judge said in sentencing Rodney Johnson to 12-and-a-half years jail after the dangerous 2017 police pursuit.
- by Matthew Kelly
Gold Coast
Mother faces court over drowned baby on Gold Coast
Lawyers for the mother of a baby girl whose body washed up on a Gold Coast beach after drowning in the Tweed River have asked for a lengthy adjournment to consider the case.
- by Robyn Wuth
Courts
Man guilty of murder for stabbing victim in Sydney shop
Douglas Johnson suspected that he was about to be ambushed, the court heard, but the judge rejected his claim that he acted in self-defence.
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Crime
'Please don’t die. Come on little man': Neighbour's desperate bid to save baby
The grandmother said she had never seen 28-year-old Jie Smith before he appeared on her doorstep with a lifeless child in his arms.
- by Nick Bielby and Matthew Kelly
Courts
NSW toddler burnt with cigarette lighter, jury told
Mohammed Khazma has pleaded not guilty to murdering his then-girlfriend's daughter in December 2016 in Sydney.
- by Sophie Moore
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'Police and lawyers talk often': force denies use of criminal solicitors as informants
NSW Police have been forced to conduct an audit of almost two decades' worth of human source records in the wake of shocking revelations in Victoria.
- by Sally Rawsthorne, Lucy Cormack and Michaela Whitbourn
Mum reveals pain of son's 'execution-style' birthday murder
A grieving mother says the birth of her first child was the happiest day of her life but the date now brings only pain after he was slain on a dark Sydney street on his 45th birthday.
- by Margaret Scheikowski
Actor John Jarratt denies rape charge
Actor John Jarratt has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman more than 40 years ago in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
- by Sophie Moore
Child abuse
Psychologist facing child sex charges granted conditional bail
A Queensland psychologist extradited to NSW on historical sex offences against young scouts has been granted strict conditional bail.
Courts
Former Sydney Scoutmaster in court over child sex assault charges
Bob Montgomery, who is also a high-profile psychologist, was extradited to NSW from Queensland on Wednesday.
- by Rachel Clun