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Mums Sam Bowles (left) and Michelle Jones say murder or manslaughter charges should be brought against the people responsible for the Laos poisoning horror.

Courts & Justice CommentsGrieving mothers ‘furious’ at Laos poisoning charges

Mums Sam Bowles and Michelle Jones have shared their anger with 60 Minutes as Lao authorities prepare charges for the poisoning horror that killed their daughters.

Duncan Evans

Mrs Rinehart said the decision “seems to be taken by some in the Channel 9 group as something they can gloat about.”

Courts & Justice PremiumGina slams ‘gloating’ Nine as she backs Ben Roberts-Smith

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has thrown her support behind Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, who is seeking to take his defamation fight to the High Court. 

Danielle Le Messurier & Adelaide Lang

Jessica Kumala Wongso was jailed for fatally poisoning her best friend with a cyanide-laced latte at a Jakarta cafe.

Courts & JusticePremiumAussie ‘iced coffee killer’ determined to rewrite history

A former NSW Ambulance worker jailed for fatally poisoning her best friend with a cyanide-laced latte at a Jakarta cafe has made a fresh claim of innocence, months after being freed.

Sarah Steger

Business owner Andrew Donnelly and business associate Shane Carlson leave Joondalup Court on Friday after facing charges.

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Ex Eagle & wife facing trial over workers’ comp insurance

Former West Coast Eagle Andrew Donnelly and his wife Natasha are being prosecuted for failing to take out workers’ compensation insurance for staff at two of their companies.

John Flint

Kalgoorlie police station.

Courts & JusticePremiumMan ‘framed’ for cop stalking and threat to kill charges

A man accused of stalking and threatening to kill a local police officer has told a Kalgoorlie magistrate he was being ‘framed’. 

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & JusticePremiumMan accused of paying 13yo girl for ‘nudes’ on Snapchat

A Coolgardie man is accused of paying a 13-year-old girl he added on Snapchat $200 and offering her more for nudes or unprotected sex.

Tegan Guthrie

An Eden Hill man has been sentenced after he was caught sending nasty, threatening, and menacing emails to a Commonwealth parliamentarian.

Courts & JusticePremiumNasty emails land WA man in legal trouble

An Eden Hill man has been sentenced after sending nasty threatening and menacing emails to a Commonwealth parliamentarian.

Artemisia Blythe

Michael Anthony Woodhall, 51, has been jailed for more than 20 years.

Courts & Justice PremiumSerial rapist jailed for 20 years over 1990s sex attacks

For almost three decades serial rapist Michael Anthony Woodhall went unpunished for the brutal and terrifying attacks he unleashed on four innocent women in the 1990s. On Friday he was jailed.

Emily Moulton

The State is seeking to increase the jail term handed to former junior sporting coach and high school physical education teacher Nicholas Visser.

COURTS & JUSTICEPremiumTeacher who repeatedly molested teenage student loses appeal

Nicholas Visser attacked his victim’s evidence, saying it was improbable she would keep meeting with him if she didn’t want his attention.

Rebecca Le May

Kalgoorlie-Boulder based mining consultant Darryl Mapleson leaving Perth Magistrates Court in December.

MiningPremiumBeacon Minerals adviser pleads guilty to insider trading

A geological consultant faces jail time after admitting to insider trading over suspect share purchases ahead of positive drill results at a Goldfields project.

Adrian Rauso

Lauren Vivian Brown has been jailed.

Courts & JusticePremiumDV victim jailed for killing her sugar daddy

A woman who fatally stabbed her abusive partner in their Joondalup apartment after just 142 days together has been put behind bars.

Rebecca Le May

The man was fined for setting yabby traps around a dam on a Wickepin farm.

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WA man fined for stealing yabbies from farms

A West Aussie who ‘just wanted yabbies to eat with his mum’ has been slapped with a fine for trespass and stealing.

Hannah Whitehead

Ben Roberts-Smith appealed following his defamation suit loss to Nine Newspapers. NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers.

Courts & JusticeBen Roberts-Smith vows High Court appeal

Ben Roberts-Smith plans to ask Australia’s highest court to overturn a judgement that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, and find the journalist who destroyed his reputation acted unethically.

Aaron Patrick

Clive Palmer.

MiningPremiumPalmer rocks CITIC with $920m ore claim

Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy hits CITIC Pacific with $920 million waste claim as their legal teams puff peace pipe in another row.

Neale Prior

A man has received a suspended jail term for threatening police at the Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & Justice PremiumMan avoids jail for threats to kill cops

A Kalgoorlie magistrate has described a 60-year-old man who threatened to kill police officers on multiple occasions as a “Jekyll and Hyde”.

Tegan Guthrie

Geraldton Courthouse.

COURTS & JUSTICEPremiumPerth dad accused of Geraldton foreshore rape granted bail

A father of two young children - one of two men accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a Geraldton beach last month - has been granted bail under strict conditions.

Josephine Hingst

A Narrogin woman who attacked a woman outside a public pool and threatened her own mother with a hammer has been jailed for a year..

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Woman jailed for year over assault and hammer threat

A Narrogin woman who attacked a woman outside a public pool and threatened her own mother with a hammer has been jailed for a year.

Hannah Whitehead

Paul Criddle

MiningPremiumMining CEO quits despite assault charges being dropped

Paul Criddle is not returning to Capricorn Metals as its chief executive despite aggravated assault charges against him being thrown out.

Adrian Rauso

Louise Carruthers walks out of Magistrates court on Friday afternoon.

State PoliticsCommentsPremiumVenuesWest hires ex-CCC officer at centre of bombshell probe

Premier Roger Cook has questioned the ‘gap in the system’ that allowed a former senior CCC officer accused of having an intimate relationship with an informant to land a senior government job.

Sarah Steger

Atbin Razavianroudbarden, top left, was killed after an attack the Landsdale 7-Eleven.

Courts & JusticePremiumLandsdale petrol station machete killer gets 18 years

A concreter who murdered a stranger with a machete in front of horrified onlookers at a Perth petrol station was responding ‘entirely disproportionately’ to a perceived threat.

Rebecca Le May

A man accused of ramming a police car injuring two officers following a dangerous pursuit through a Perth suburb had two juveniles inside and was already on bail for other offences, a court was told.

Courts & justice PremiumDriver accused of ramming police car had kids inside

A man accused of ramming a police car and injuring two officers after a dangerous pursuit through Perth had two juveniles inside and was already on bail for other offences, a court has been told.

Emily Moulton

A 74-year-old man has been charged over an indecent assault at Town Beach Reserve in Broome.

Courts & justicePremiumCharge over beach assault on beachgoer in Broome

A 74-year-old man has been charged over an indecent assault at Town Beach Reserve in Broome.

Natasha Clark

Two police officers have been hurt after a vehicle slammed into the side of their car following a dangerous pursuit through Churchlands. 

CrimePremiumCops hurt after car slams into their vehicle during chase

Two police officers have been hurt after a vehicle slammed into the side of their car following a dangerous pursuit through Churchlands. 

Jessica Evensen

Stanley Malcolm Douglas Farmer was sentenced to jail in Albany Magistrates Court on Thursday.

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‘Sexual deviant’: Man jailed for indecent and obscene acts

A registered child sex offender who has terrorised Albany women in their homes and workplaces for months has been jailed.

Melissa Sheil