A court has heard a man, who found his murdered mother’s body as a teenager, had shown remorse and deep shame over his “peripheral” involvement in a local drug “industry” loosely linked to his innocent mum’s slaying.
They crashed through glass doors of a servo to help themselves to $10,000 worth of cigarettes and crudely ripped an ATM from its footings inside a tobacconist. Now, the two jobs – two months and 50km apart – are at the centre of a strike force.
It was a chance meeting inside a pub which led to three men deciding it was time to have a talk with a fellow crook. What happened next led to one man in intensive care and his three attackers facing serious charges.
How a police strike force set up to investigate a bizarre plane robbery in 2000 morphed into chasing conspiracies into importing cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars nearly two decades later.
A parolee who shot a man dead during an escalating argument in a Newcastle unit over an old debt has learnt his fate. Read what happened in court.
A three-day sentence hearing has been set for Brett Button, the coach driver who has admitted to dangerous driving occasioning the death of 10 people in the Hunter last year.
A Hunter Valley driver has allegedly been caught with drugs in his system but police claim a search of his vehicle also uncovered much more. Read the details.
A crucial – and rather large – piece to the mysterious puzzle of what happened to a missing Brazilian scuba diver, hired to retrieve cocaine from a ship in Newcastle, has been discovered buried on a remote property.
Ten dead, 25 injured, hundreds of lives shattered, and a country in deep shock and mourning. The catastrophic repercussions from the Hunter bus crash continue one year on.
Two teens have been charged and a third dealt with under the Young Offenders Act after a police chase through multiple Newcastle suburbs and towns ended just a few hundred metres from a police station.
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