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Ava Benny-MorrisonThe Sunday Telegraph Crime Reporter

Ava Benny-Morrison is a crime reporter for The Sunday Telegraph. She joined the team in September 2017 after covering crime and courts for several years in NSW and Queensland.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 7.4.21SUNDAY TELEHGRAPH - MUST CLEAR WITH ST PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE USING ***Holly Leppard pictured in Wollongong today. Holly was sexually assaulted and her attacker was convicted recently. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Top lawyers break ranks on sex assault law reforms

Sydney lawyers who broke ranks from the NSW Bar Association on sexual violence law reform last week have spoken out about why they felt compelled to act.

Police & Courts

Six men have been charged over an interstate drug trafficking ring and following raids across Sydney by Strike Force Raptor. Detectives executed four search warrants at properties in Pyrmont, Revesby, and Sydney City on June 4, 2021. During the search, investigators seized $120,000 in cash, jewellery, watches, electronic devices and a small amount of drugs.

From Nike Bikies to the Balenciaga Gangsta

In a sign of the times, it appears the Nike bikie is out and the Balenciaga Gangsta is in, after police arrested a fashion-conscious bloke with a designer doormat on Friday.

St George Shire Standard

MP’s trusted adviser bailed after sexual misconduct probe

Federal MP Craig Kelly’s most trusted adviser has been granted bail after being charged following a lengthy investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.

ExclusivePolice & Courts

Cash and designer goods seized in penthouse drug raid

Six men have been charged over a massive interstate cannabis trafficking ring, with police warning that cannabis is ‘the rocket fuel of organised crime’.

UPDATEDPolice & Courts

Investigation target in Star city casino 2020. . A PLOT to import a record shipment of more than three tonnes of cocaine into Australia by sea has been smashed by a secret two-year investigation and ‘sting’ by NSW police using a snap of seized drug shipments., The international drug cartel had the mammoth haul of high-grade cocaine earmarked for the Sydney market and other parts of Australia.

$100m pokie tip led to record cocaine bust: Cops

A cross-continent investigation which led to a $900m drugs bust began when NSW police were alerted to a man who allegedly put $100m through the pokies.

ExclusiveNSW

Assault survivor inspires school sex ed revamp

At 14 Chloe was sexually assaulted — but when she told her school counsellor, she received a lecture about ‘male sexual frustration’. Now in year 11, Chloe is inspiring change.

Police & Courts

It’s lawyer Mohammad Chahine (left) pictured with barrister Hament Dhanji SC and barrister Peter Lange . Source - https://www.instagram.com/chahinemohammadd/

Tense court exchange between magistrate and lawyer

After a terse appearance in court, a Sydney lawyer has vowed he will make an application for a case to be heard by a different judicial officer if he appears before him again.

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Vital clues that solved luxury car dealer’s mystery death

When a luxury car salesman was called out to check on a vehicle he had wanted to purchase it was the start of a chain of events that finished in murder. Don’t miss a special I Catch Killers podcast plus exclusive video.

UPDATEDNSW

Jerry Plains horse float crash. Picture: Mangoola Rural Fire Brigade NSW

Prized Magic Millions horses killed in road carnage

A horse float transporting thoroughbreds from Australia’s richest sale has crashed in the NSW Hunter Region, killing five prized mares.

ExclusiveNSW

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED KRISTI MILLER BEFORE PUBLISHING - Pictured in his office in Sydney today is Attorney General Mark Speakman. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Sexual history ‘not on trial’: Speakman

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman has resisted calls from the legal fraternity to overhaul laws that protect alleged rape victims from bring grilled about their sexual past in court.

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