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Truck driver who hit pedestrians in Southbank gets bail
Truck driver Frank Rogers, 64 tells court he ‘felt a bump’ during a collision which left two people seriously injured in Southbank on Thursday evening.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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Lawyer found with ice, almost $6000 in cash and rolled up $20 note, court told
Prominent Melbourne lawyer Pat Lennon was allegedly found with 11 grams of methamphetamine and almost $6000 when he was apprehended by police last year.
- by Cameron Houston
Richard Pusey to contest charges over alleged road-rage incident
The man jailed for filming four dying police officers on the Eastern Freeway last year is accused of assaulting another driver and stealing his car keys.
- by Adam Cooper
Man charged with raping woman who believed his car was ride-share vehicle
Police allege the 50-year-old raped the young woman in an inner-Melbourne suburb soon after offering her a free ride home.
- by Adam Cooper and David Estcourt
Private school admits safety errors after groundskeeper’s death
Kym Page was working at Haileybury College’s Berwick campus when he suffered fatal head injuries from a falling tree branch in 2018.
- by Erin Pearson
Babysitter who seriously injured boy pleads for jail release to bond with her daughter
A couple had an unwell friend’s son stay with them in May 2019, but the stint ended with the boy suffering a serious head injury that will affect the rest of his life.
- by Adam Cooper
Man faces court charged with threatening Richmond’s Dylan Grimes
The man is accused of threatening and abusing the Richmond defender in the days after the footballer received a controversial free kick.
- by Adam Cooper
Chief Judge counters criticism of Pusey sentence, says ‘retribution’ can’t prevail
The Chief Judge of the County Court has pushed back against criticism of the 10-month sentence handed to Richard Pusey over his filming of four police officers who were killed in last year’s horror Eastern Freeway crash.
- by David Estcourt
Man faces court charged with injuring missing woman Maryam Hamka
The boyfriend of a Melbourne woman who has been missing for almost three weeks has faced court charged with injuring her before her disappearance.
- by Adam Cooper and Rachael Dexter
‘It’s in my nightmares’: Bourke Street witness fights for compensation
The aftermath of the Bourke Street massacre is vivid in Chris Harris’ nightmares, but he’s being denied serious injury compensation from the Transport Accident Commission for what he says is an unbearable but invisible injury.
- by Erin Pearson
Former Christian Brother faces more jail for sex abuse at orphanage in 1960s
A man sexually abused as a boy more than 50 years ago at a Geelong orphanage has told a court how thankful he is at being believed after decades of trauma.
- by Adam Cooper