Crime
Accused killer of 23-year-old Hannah McGuire faces her family in court
Lachlan Young, a 21-year-old from Sebastopol, appeared at the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday morning charged with murdering McGuire.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Police investigate ‘terrifying’ attempted abduction of 11-year-old girl
The girl was walking home from school in Doncaster East when an unknown man in a grey Audi ordered her to get in his car.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
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Naked City
We have no trouble catching youth offenders – but can’t find the key to stop them
Taking away the social media “likes” would be a good starting point to negating youth crime.
- by John Silvester
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Courts
Restaurateur launches private prosecution against Mick Gatto
Jamal Mohammad has been granted an interim intervention order against Mick Gatto after filing charges against the former heavyweight boxer in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, where he has made a series of explosive but unsubstantiated allegations.
- by Cameron Houston and Chris Vedelago
Police search for truck driver after pedestrian nearly crushed in Melbourne CBD
CCTV footage shows the moment a truck driver reversed into a pole and knocked it over, and a passing pedestrian narrowly escaped being crushed.
- by Chris Vedelago and Roy Ward
Police search for truck driver after pedestrian nearly crushed in Melbourne CBD
Police search for truck driver after pedestrian nearly crushed in Melbourne CBD
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Education
These students cheated on a test and got away with it. Then the blackmail started
Australian students are being blackmailed by illegal cheating syndicates largely run by organised crime. Experts warn it is a risk to national security as blackmailers return, threatening to out students for past cheating.
- by Sherryn Groch
Man attempts to kidnap child from Footscray street
A teenager who attempted to prevent the kidnapping is alleged to have been punched in the face.
- by Alex Crowe
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Victoria Police
Man gunned down on Glenroy shopping strip in ‘targeted attack’
Homicide squad detectives are combing an area in Melbourne’s north after a man was shot dead in the early hours of Good Friday.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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Tobacco
Tobacco scheme will need tough powers to end state’s turf wars
Victoria’s new tobacco licensing laws must have strict character tests, a dedicated task force and massive fines to avoid being a toothless tiger at stopping the state’s underground turf war, the industry has warned.
- by Kieran Rooney, Broede Carmody and Chris Vedelago
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Victoria Police conduct
‘On target’: How allegedly false police logs may have tainted dozens of criminal cases
Victoria Police’s internal investigators are probing allegations surveillance crews falsified logs to claim they were monitoring suspects when not doing so.
- by Nick McKenzie