Crime
WA Bunnings evacuated over 'fart spray' prank gone wrong
Paul Hart has been jailed over the 2024 incident, which led to 11 people requiring hospital treatment.
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Etan’s disappearance changed childhood forever. Now this decades-old case has been reopened
When six-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school in 1979, frightened parents began to raise their children differently.
Man jailed over ‘traumatic’ Bunnings fart spray prank
Instead of “lightening the mood”, the incident forced the hardware store to close and customers to be subjected to “humiliating” decontamination showers outside hospital.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
‘Chose to kill her’: Teen pleads guilty to murder of grandmother Vyleen White
White was stabbed in a shopping centre car park, sparking outrage and prompting the state government to change bail laws for juveniles.
- Anna Rawlings and Cloe Read
Jury discharged in trial of celebrity jeweller over staged $2.8m heist
The 67-year-old faced trial alongside two co-accused over their alleged roles in the 2023 insurance sham in which a shop assistant was allegedly strapped to a chair with cable ties.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Courts
Charges laid over photo of kids bound with tape, held at gunpoint
Police said the two boys, aged three and four, were safe and well, but the image was “alarming ... whether it was in jest or not”.
- Catherine Strohfeldt and William Davis
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- Victoria
Exiled tobacco kingpin linked to fire that killed innocent burlesque dancer
Police suspect Kazem “Kaz” Hamad of ordering the botched Truganina arson attack from overseas and have set a $500,000 reward for information.
- Hannah Hammoud
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- Missing person
A Sydney chef checked out of a Surry Hills hotel. He was never seen again
Simon Knight left the hotel by bike, withdrew $500 from the bank then “disappeared off the face of the earth”.
- Josefine Ganko
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- Scams
Luxury hotels and a Lamborghini: School captain ‘conned mates out of millions’
Chao Wang claimed he was running a successful betting company. Police allege it was all a “heinous” scam to steal more than $2 million from investors.
- Perry Duffin
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- Childcare
Why parents are kept in dark about alleged abusers at childcare providers
While thousands of parents were told about a Victorian daycare worker, details of a recent case in Sydney remain shrouded in secrecy.
- Amber Schultz
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