An international shipment of MDMA big enough to make 7 million ecstasy pills – that was destined to hit Brisbane during Schoolies – has been crushed, leaving a global network that had been operating for years “fully dismantled”.
Julian Assange has complained about his computer access inside London’s Belmarsh prison, saying he cannot defend himself on charges that carry a 175-year prison term.
Queensland detectives are yet to make any official notification to India for help to locate the key person of interest in the brutal slaying of Toyah Condingley, despite local officials and the man’s family saying they’re willing to assist.
Top barrister Mark Griffin QC will soon die from terminal cancer. But he granted SA Weekend an exclusive interview to reflect on his life – from defending a Snowtown killer to the humiliation of having to resign as a District Court judge.
UNSEEN letters from Ivan Milat have revealed who his tears and sympathies are for — and it’s not the men and women he slaughtered and dumped in bush graves.
SENTENCED to seven years jail for a white-collar crime, Sydney mum Victoria Schembri was bashed, threatened and harassed for sex — and that’s just the first day she was an inmate.
WHEN a charred, headless torso was found in southeast Queensland in 2013, there were no clues about who the person was. So police turned to the “bones lady” in the hope she could help. She did.
AFTER almost 20 years behind the walls of Risdon Prison, News Corp is able to reveal the highly secret day-to-day existence of Australia’s worst killer.
AS a balding, ageing, convicted serial killer sentenced to live out his life in a sunless cell, Ivan Milat has absolutely nothing going for him — but that doesn’t stop women writing to him.
RACHEL Barber had everything going for her — she was a beautiful talented dancer with a handsome boyfriend. That’s why she was murdered.
An Ice Princess who seduced a teen to kill. A wrestler with an iron grip on her lover. And a “dancing assassin”. Their shocking betrayals of loved ones came at the ultimate price.
WHEN John Myles Sharpe realised he had been exposed as the cold-hearted killer in of one of Australia’s most gruesome and callous double killings, he wept like a baby.
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