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Ex-AFL player Barry Cable charged with child sex abuse
WA Police have charged ex-AFL player Barry Cable with historic sexual abuse of a young girl.
- by Holly Thompson and Connor McGoverne
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‘Audacious’: Over $6 million worth of drugs found hidden on cargo ship in Fremantle
Australian Border Force intercepted 120kg of MDMA using sniffer dogs after the ship docked in WA on its way to NSW in February.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Stepmother jailed for bashing six-year-old WA girl over the head with cricket ball stuffed in a sock
A Perth woman has been jailed for 18 months after violently beating her six-year-old stepdaughter, leaving horrific bruises.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Burglaries, stealing, drug taking, but former immigration detainee is released again
Kimbengere Gosoge is the first immigration detainee to be sentenced for breaching the conditions of his release from detention last year.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
WA to get first shelter for male victims of domestic violence
Statistics reveal one in 18 men have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a current or previous partner, while one in seven have experienced emotional abuse.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Jury finds WA mum not guilty of trying to kill severely disabled daughter
The woman admitted injecting the six-year-old with insulin, but said she did it to incite a medical episode that would get the girl help.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth doctor charged with indecently assaulting woman
A doctor has been charged with indecently assaulting a woman during a medical procedure in Western Australia.
- by Savannah Meacham
Charges laid over stabbing of sleeping homeless man on St Georges Terrace
It will be alleged the accused approached the victim and stabbed him twice in the back as he lay defenceless in his sleeping bag.Â
- by Emma Young
Second man charged with murder over Safety Bay stabbing
A 50-year-old man has been accused of stabbing a 30-year-old man to death in a Safety Bay home two weeks ago. A 46-year-old man was also earlier charged over the same incident.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth carer admits leaving autistic man in car during heatwave
Tsz Wing Tam had cared for Jefferson Do for eight years and was highly thought of by his family when he left him for hours inside a car on a sweltering January day while he went shopping.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt