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Heidi Strbak arrives at the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Thursday, November 16, 2017. Ms Strbak is attending a contested sentence hearing for the manslaughter of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb on May 24, 2009. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING
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Killer mum to appeal Tyrell Cobb sentence

The High Court has granted a Gold Coast mother special leave to appeal her nine-year manslaughter sentence for the death of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb after she did not seek medical assistance for him as he lay dying from blunt force trauma.

A social media pic of accused Geelong murderer Nicholas Munn.
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Killer’s chilling FB post before hammer murder

“DON’T test the gangster in me.” These were the chilling words posted on Nick Munn’s personal Facebook page shortly after 6am on April 9 last year. Hours later, he picked up a claw hammer and brutally murdered Jason Fry inside a North Shore bedroom.

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Ashley Coulston, right, with police in 1993.

Motive for share house executions still baffles

THEY were random victims — three young people set on a collision course  with a deadly stranger by an innocent ad for a housemate. Just weeks after the chilling killings, the cold-blooded murderer was ready to strike again, only to be thwarted by exceptional acts of bravery. 

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