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Aymon Bertah is a reporter at The Daily Telegraph. He has previously worked as a reporter for News Corp’s suburban and regional news titles, joining in early 2022 at The Dubbo News before moving to the Southern Courier in 2023 and the Wentworth Courier in 2024.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, March 25, 2025. Premier Chris Minns at a press conference with housing minister Rose Jackson MP, Anoulack Chanthivong MP and Trina Jones, NSW Rental Commissioner, to announce details around the commencement of rental reforms in New South Wales. Parliament House. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Minns supports urgent review into mental health legal loophole

The NSW Premier has thrown his support behind Attorney-General Michael Daley’s call for an ‘urgent review’ into a surge of cases being dismissed in court on mental health grounds.

UPDATEDNSW

Stunning pictures of huge blaze that wreaked chaos in Parramatta

Investigators will be forced to wait to enter a Parramatta laundromat to determine what caused a blaze that ripped through the building and took firefighters almost 12 hours to extinguish.

Police & Courts

Johnny Birch, identified as man found dead at Glenorie.

Alleged Glenorie murderer to remain behind bars on remand

An alleged murderer who was found by police sleeping in a car in Sydney’s northwest has fronted court for the first time.

Police & Courts

Police have released CCTV images and are appealing for public assistance after the attempted sexual assault of a woman on Sydney’s North Shore yesterday. About 3.30am (Thursday 20 March 2025), a 36-year-old woman caught a bus to Neutral Bay after finishing work. Picture: NSW Police

18yo accused of ‘premeditated’ sexual attack on woman

A teenager who handed himself in to police after he allegedly grabbed a woman from behind in a sexual attack has applied for bail.

Police & Courts

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 30 January 2025Maroubra school graffitiGraffiti removalists have painted over the anti-semetic graffiti on Mount Sinai College in Maroubra. Picture Thomas Lisson

Man accused of anti-Semitic vandalism in Sydney’s east

A 41-year-old man has been charged in relation to multiple alleged anti-Semitic graffiti incidents across Sydney’s east in January.

Police & Courts

18/12/2015: Generic picture of Lakemba Ali ibn Abu Taleb Mosque in Western Sydney. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘Odious’: Minns appalled at second alleged threat on Sydney mosque

NSW Premier Chris Minns says he’s appalled by a second alleged mass shooting threat made against a second mosque in Padstow.

EXCLUSIVEPolice & Courts

Ex-NRL player caught dealing meth

Former Manly, Eels and Dragons winger Andrew Frew has pleaded guilty to dealing methamphetamine, with police finding an assortment of drugs and thousands in cash in his apartment.

UPDATEDPolice & Courts

An Australian Border Force (ABF) employee and an alleged crime figure have been charged with bribery and drug offences by a new AFP and NSW Police Multi Agency Strike Team (MAST)., , The pair is accused of colluding to import illicit drugs into Australia., , The ABF employee, 50, is scheduled to appear in Downing Centre Local Court today (Wednesday, 12 March, 2025) charged with receiving a bribe as a Commonwealth official, abuse of public office, unauthorised disclosure of information by Commonwealth officer, and aid and abet the importation of border controlled drugs. The later offence carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment., , A Mount Pritchard man, 67, who the MAST alleges has links to organised crime, has been charged with offences including bribery of a Commonwealth official and aid and abet the importation of border controlled drugs. The later offence carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. He will appear in Fairfield Local Court today., , Another two men, 25 and 48, were also charged with attempting to possess border controlled drugs.

ABF official’s bail bid after ‘betrayal’ by alleged Sydney gangster

An Australia Border Force official who was allegedly persuaded to share confidential information to help smuggle drugs into Australia has applied for bail.

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Little Airlie’s heartbreaking cause of death revealed

The cause of death of 6-year-old Airlie Montgomery on the NSW South Coast has been revealed after a desperate search ended in heartbreak.

Police & Courts

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 24: Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya concentrated at the starting line before the 2023 BMW Berlin-Marathon on September 24, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Luciano Lima/Getty Images)

‘Special in my heart’: GOAT marathoner to run in Sydney

There isn’t a better name to mark Sydney’s first year as an Abbott World Marathon Major than the greatest of all time, Eliud Kipchoge.

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