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Brenden Hills is an award winning reporter for the Saturday and Sunday Telegraphs. He specialises in writing about court cases and organised crime.

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Cell phone horror: 1553 jail calls from alleged attacker to DV victim

A high risk domestic violence offender managed to get his alleged victim’s phone number added to list of approved people he was allowed to call from jail.

Police & Courts

High profile inmate sues over prison sex abuse scandal

Which high profile inmate has launched a massive legal case against prisons? Which anti-Semitism case is going to put more pressure on the premier? And which rare double award went off in court this week? The Snitch is here.

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CCTV shows Craig Bantoft, 37, and Guy Finnegan, 30, mistakenly setting the Curly Lewis Brewery in Bondi alight.

Premier to probe hate crime jail fail

Premier Chris Minns has ordered a review into why a high-profile anti-Semitic arsonist was not prosecuted in a court that could issue a harsher sentence than the 10-month minimum he received.

EXCLUSIVEPolice & Courts

ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold arrives at the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra, Friday, October 7, 2022. Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann is accused of raping a colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Former ACT chief prosecutor’s Sydney career revival revealed

After stepping down as the ACT’s top prosecutor following fallout from the Bruce Lehrmann trial, Shane Drumgold SC has made a surprise career move.

EXCLUSIVEPolice & Courts

THE race to own disgraced cop Roger Rogerson’s murder car was a photo finish between a crime museum and a Sydney bookmakerwho maintains he is innocent of heroin smuggling charges

Race to own disgraced cop Roger Rogerson’s murder car ends

After a huge response, someone has been selected to take the murder car used by cop-turned-killer Roger Rogerson.

Police & Courts

DPP Sally Dowling’s ‘colonial load’ email

How should the state’s prosecuting lawyers behave on Australia Day? What other piece of Roger Rogerson memorabilia would you want? And which leading barristers’ chambers might come to resemble a coastal Airbnb? The Snitch is here.

Police & Courts

Cheyne Geoffrey Wilkinson, senior member of Maroubra-based sufers group the Bra Boys, leaving Central Local Court in Sydney after being released on bail, where he faced charges of stabbing a man at Kings Cross on 02/11/2008.

Ex-Bra Boy charged with Eastlakes stabbing murder

A former member of the Bra Boys known as “Big Bird’ has faced court charged with murder after an alleged stabbing at Eastlakes.

EXCLUSIVEPolice & Courts

Ex Crown Prosecutor Paul Leask, who was immortalised in 2012’s Underbelly: Badness, was arrested on child porn charges. Pictrues: Supplied

Top lawyer charged in child porn raid

A top prosecuting lawyer whose record of jailing the state’s most feared criminals saw him immortalised in the Underbelly TV series is behind bars after child porn raids.

EXCLUSIVEPolice & Courts

The car used by infamous cop-turned-killer Roger Rogerson in one of the state’s most notorious murders – and likely a lot of other illegal activity – is up for grabs.

Can’t give it away: The Roger Rogerson item no one wants

The car owned by disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson needs a new home — but finding a taker has proved challenging.

Police & Courts

Why bikie boss Mick Hawi feared for his son

Are a bikie boss’s fears about his family coming to fruition? Why is it a new dawn for the DPP? And which troubled Sydney identity has had a bad start to 2025? The Snitch is here.

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