Steve Symons, the father of victim Kane Symons who told the court during his victim impact statement that he now felt a void that would never be filled, was succinct outside court. “It showed that they mattered,” he said.
One of the Hunter Valley bus crash survivors has given a horrific insight into the terror unleashed inside the bus as it rolled and killed 10 people.
A grievously injured survivor of the horrific fatal Hunter Valley bus crash who lost his wife, his daughter, and her partner in the tragedy has choked back tears as he laid bare his relentless grief.
More than 30 victim impact statements will be read as part of a three-day sentence hearing for Hunter bus crash driver Brett Button beginning on Monday. Here is how the proceedings are expected to unfold.
DNA gleaned from a rape victim’s neck – and three discarded cigarettes – has helped convict a sex attacker more than a decade after he preyed on a woman after she had left a Newcastle nightclub.
A court has heard how three people underwent surgery, including one woman needing to be revived after being stabbed in the neck and a second suffering skull fractures, after two couples began brawling on a suburban street.
A man has been charged with six offences, including supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, after a raid on a central west home allegedly found 749g of meth and wads of cash.
Crash experts have been called in to investigate a two-vehicle crash which has claimed the life of a male motorcyclist, believed to be aged in his 50s, near Dungog.
A woman who was jailed for killing a female pedestrian while speeding and on meth has been arrested for allegedly driving while disqualified on a major highway and still on parole – and she has allegedly failed an initial drug test.
A teenager who plunged a knife into the neck of one stranger after slashing another has been told he was lucky he was not facing more serious charges and a jail term “three or four times” more than what he got. WARNING: Graphic content.
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