Police
AFL star Marlion Pickett pleads not guilty to stealing more than $380,000 in Perth
The Richmond player was arrested last year in connection to a spate of commercial thefts. On Thursday, he formally denied having any involvement and will take the matter to trial.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Missing person
Mum’s appeal for daughter missing in Perth for five days
Police and family have appealed for information on the whereabouts of Tahlia Prior who turned 27 today but has not been seen by her family since last Friday.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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WA courts
Rebels bikie charged after police find cash and gun hidden in arcade game
WA Police allege that officers removed a portion of the game machine to reveal a hidden cavity which contained over $400,000 in cash, several rounds of ammunition and a handgun.
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Perth
Man charged over bloodied City Beach attack
The victim, a 29-year-old man, had his leg severed in the assault, with an off-duty doctor saving his life.
- by Heather McNeill
Three-year-old boy hit by car and left on side of Perth road
Sometime between 12.30pm and 1pm on Friday the boy was found injured alongside The Strand in Bayswater.
Man in India charged over sexual abuse of WA girl via social media
It is alleged the abuse started when the girl was 11-years-old and continued for several years.
Nick Martin’s assassin has written a book in prison, but doesn’t want the man accused of hiring him to read it
The hit man allegedly hired by Mongols bikie David Pye to assassinate Nike Martin wants the contents of an autobiography he wrote in prison to be kept secret.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Two pilots die in WA cattle station helicopter tragedy
A 29-year-old man and a 30-year-old man have died after their helicopters collided shortly after take-off at a cattle station in WA’s far north.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Kenneth and Wendy got engaged four days after they met. Four decades later she tried to kill him
She described their marriage as “lovely” and said she loved her husband to bits. Now she’s been sentenced to nine years behind bars for attempted murder.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Dodgy Perth dealer fined a second time over illegal car trading business
Jacob Hamilton copped a $40,000 fine two years ago for running a car sales business in Stirling without a license. Within weeks he was back at it.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth nurse who tried to kill ill husband collapses after hearing sentence
Wendy Sym was suffering from carer’s burnout and had “hit the end of her tether” when she injected a lethal dose of insulin into her husband while he was in hospital.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt