Appeals against the sentences of two men involved in a brutal southwest Sydney kidnapping where the victim was subjected to horrifying “corporal punishment” have been heard. Read the result.
A man stands accused of biting a police officer and drawing blood during a chaotic arrest at a busy Newcastle pub. Here’s what allegedly went down.
A jury has heard claims of a “volatile” relationship a young woman allegedly endured at the hands on her boyfriend before her body was found near a remote bush hut on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
Two Upper Hunter rugby league players have denied allegations they forced themselves on a 19-year-old woman in an alleged late night incident. Read what happened in court.
There’s been an unexpected twist in the trial of a Sydney man accused of raping and choking a woman he met in Lake Macquarie after the pair formed a relationship online.
A court has heard that a man who brutally shot his housemate before dumping his body in a shallow grave on their Hunter rental property was angry after a dog dispute.
In an “act of revenge” after having his shifts canned, a Newcastle demolition worker went to his supervisor’s home and set it ablaze with a cigarette lighter.
A Hunter teacher accused of grooming and having sex with a 15-year-old boy has been granted strict conditional bail after the court heard she was far into a high risk pregnancy and due to give birth in three months.
Sexual offending allegations are mounting against a prominent Hunter businessman and hotelier who’s already accused of two separate sexual assaults just a month apart, with a new charge emerging.
A Hunter teacher accused of grooming and having sex with a 15-year-old boy and ignoring an AVO to see him while on bail has denied all charges against her. Read what happened in court.
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