Crime

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Man invokes murdered QLD family in alleged wife threat

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: ‘You and your daughter deserve to be burned alive like the Queensland family’, was one of the threats a man made against his wife before brutally raping her, prosecutors say.

Jake Dietsch

A-salt chargeMan charged with ‘chicken salt’ assault on mum

A chicken salt container will be at the centre of a legal argument as a Kalgoorlie-Boulder man denies he assaulted his mother with the popular condiment.

Taylar Amonini

CrimeTrump offered to pardon Assange: lawyer

President Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he revealed the source of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails in 2016, his lawyer says.

Quarantine breachSecond ankle bracelet fitted to WA COVID breacher

A Secret Harbour man who allegedly breached hotel quarantine by inviting women to his room and going to a party has become the second person in WA to be fitted with a COVID monitoring device.

Sarah Steger

‘Idiot abroad’French backpacker jailed after drug order to WA hostel

An ‘idiot abroad’ whose dream holiday around Australia with his girlfriend turned into a nightmare after he was caught importing party drugs in the mail to his Kununurra hostel has been jailed.

Shannon Hampton

Bowel busterMan jailed after rolling dice to ‘clear gambling debt’

A 56-year-old drug mule was picked up by authorities in WA after swallowing five heroin-filled pellets he urgently needed to 'evacuate'.

Shannon Hampton

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Child sex predator’s creepy kids’ catalogue search

A convicted sex offender has been released from prison just months after being locked back up for viewing photos of kids on children’s clothing websites — including Target and Best & Less.

Sarah Steger

Crisis pointViolence against women a growing ‘mountain’ to move

The Federal Government needs to commit at least $12 billion over the next 12 years to tackle the ‘undeniable crisis of violence against women and children’.

Sarah Ison

Yanchep shootingShot man charged with endangering officers’ lives

The man at the centre of the Yanchep police shooting Drew Christopher Lushey — who is in a coma under guard in hospital — has been charged with endangering the lives of the officers who shot him.

Phil Hickey and Tim Clarke

Family relievedWA cop fails in bid for JC murder trial in Geraldton

An attempt by the WA Police officer charged over the shooting death of Yamatji woman JC to have his murder trial heard north of Perth has failed.

Emily Moulton

Looking slickMercanti debuts new look as lawyers argue over funeral

Prosecutors will apply to have a special hearing to determine a “discrete jurisdictional issue” linked to charges stemming from Troy Mercanti’s attendance at a bikie funeral in NSW.

Shannon Hampton

CrimeNetflix 'Cheer' star on child porn charge

The star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer has been arrested and charged with producing child pornography.

Don Babwin

Major operationPolice raid northern suburbs ‘drug den’

Police have raided a home in Perth’s northern suburbs where four people were arrested after a $12 million stash of meth was uncovered earlier this year.

Daryna Zadvirna

Pub brawlMan slashed with knife outside tavern

A woman has been arrested after a man was slashed with a knife outside a northern suburbs tavern.

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Body-worn cop camera videos to convict DV abusers

Police camera footage will soon be able to be used as evidence in court to convict domestic violence offenders currently escaping punishment because their victims are being pressured not to testify.

Elise Van Aken

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Domestic violence law reform welcome

The issue is complex and there will be further challenges. But it is heartening to know that action is under way.

guilty or not guilty?Claremont podcast: The moment of truth is upon us

Is Bradley Robert Edwards guilty or not guilty? Only one person knows what the answer to that question is, and he’s taken 12 weeks to make it. But on Thursday September 24, the world will find out.

Kate Ryan

Assault chargesChild care worker charged over ‘scratches’ on kids

A Quinns Rocks woman is facing assault charges after an investigation into allegations children at Goodstart Early Learning in Banksia Grove had come home with scratches.

CrimeNavalny may have been poisoned at hotel

Alexei Navalny's team says the nerve agent Novichok was found on a water bottle in his Siberian hotel room, suggesting the Kremlin critic was poisoned there.

CrimeFour now charged over SA bashing murder

Police have made two more arrests and there are now four men charged over a bashing murder in Adelaide last month.

Confronting imagesHunt on for Greenfields gruesome socket attacker

A woman needed 18 staples in her head after being struck by a metal tool that was thrown through the window of her car as she was driving in Perth’s south.

Rourke Walsh

Fatal scuffle‘I stabbed him’: Frantic Triple-0 call played to court

A former immigration agent on trial over the death of his housemate following a Boxing Day fight says he was protecting himself, fearing he was going to be sexually assaulted, a WA court has heard.

Emily Moulton

WATCH THE FOOTAGEDramatic footage emerges of Yanchep police shooting

A neighbour has described hearing gunshots ring out as officers opened fire in Yanchep this morning, as dramatic footage emerges of the man shot by police being taken from the scene by paramedics.

Daryna Zadvirna