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Aged care worker who strangled 70-year-old WA woman to death had a fixation on serial killers
His own defence lawyer said it seemed extraordinary that someone with Jacob Hoysted’s background was left to care for vulnerable people.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Murderer of WA women owned 13 guns, called daughter during shooting
The Perth man who murdered two innocent women inside their suburban home on Friday was a licensed gun owner, it has been revealed.Â
- by Heather McNeill
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Perth
‘Floreat murders were domestic violence’: Minister at odds with police
Minister Reece Whitby has publicly revealed his disagreement with a decision of WA Police not to classify the murder of a mother and daughter by a man who attended their Floreat home on the hunt for his ex-wife a domestic violence incident.
- by Jesinta Burton
Updated
Tragedy
Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown
Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her youngest daughter Gretl, 18, were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.Â
- by Holly Thompson, Heather McNeill, Michael Stamp and Amber Wilkinson
Updated
Tragedy
Man who killed mother, daughter in Floreat home was looking for his ex-wife
The man attended the Floreat house looking for his ex-wife, but when he realised she wasn’t there, he instead killed Jenny Petelczyc and her teenage daughter before turning the gun on himself.
- by Holly Thompson
Two women killed, man dead, after shooting in Floreat home
WA Police have confirmed a man in his 60s killed two women, before turning the gun on himself.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Holly Thompson
Ex-AFL player Barry Cable charged with child sex abuse
The 80-year-old faces criminal charges that he allegedly had unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl who police say was just nine to 10 years old at the time.
- by Holly Thompson, Connor McGoverne and Lachlan Abbott
WA News as it happened Friday, May 24
WAtoday brings you all the news you need to know as it happens this Friday, May 24.
- by Daile Cross and Cameron Myles
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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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Courts
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