Girl left an orphan after fatal home invasion
A teenager whose mother died several years ago has now seen her father die, after he was shot during a violent home invasion, south-west of Brisbane.
Crime In Focus
Dealer with $2.76m of drugs and guns jailed for 10 years
When police raided the home of Paul Makdissi they found $2.76 million of cocaine, ice and MDMA along with guns and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash stuffed in a Gucci bag. On Monday he learnt his fate in court.
Australian tourists busted in Bali
A Victorian man has been arrested for an alleged drug crime in Bali, while a Queensland man was jailed on the island for bag snatching.
Barnaby Joyce backs Julian Assange
Barnaby Joyce says Australia should step up diplomatic efforts to stop the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US after he serves his jail time in the UK for breach of bail.
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Attack of the killer frogmen
A FORMER KGB colonel was gunned down in his driveway by ‘frogmen’ working for the Russian mafia who fled in the darkness of a Gold Coast canal. The death of Gennadi Bernovski, 41, in 2000 still intrigues today.
Shock call on Skaf gang rapist
THE Skaf brothers’ gang rapes were described as being worse than murder. Now the woman who put them behind bars has revealed why one of them should be freed.
Outrage as three killers to be freed
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The day Milat tried to kill me
A BRITISH man has revealed for the first time how he faced off with Ivan Milat while hitchhiking in 1982, and the one thing that stopped the serial killer smashing him with a hammer.
Hells Angels on run after wings clipped
SIX Australian Hells Angels are in hiding after their visas were revoked in Thailand as police probe drug trafficking, standover tactics, weapons possession and money laundering.
Rogerson quizzed over Whiskey Au Go Go fire
CONVICTED murderer and corrupt cop Roger Rogerson has written from behind bars to deny any wrongdoing after assisting Queensland police in the reinvestigation of the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing.
Wild gunman Mad Max’s reign of terror
MAD Max Marinof waged a terrifying one-man war against Melbourne’s police force, shooting half a dozen officers before being taken down after eight months on the run.
Shooting victim’s family demand new inquest
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