He is the half-brother of one of the state’s most notorious murderers and was once mates with disgraced Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos. Now, Neville Knight has learnt his fate for preying on nearly a dozen boys during decades of abuse.
New details are emerging about the alleged street stabbing murder of a popular Newcastle man as two more men are arrested in northwest NSW and Sydney while detectives prepare to extradite a fifth man from Queensland.
A Supreme Court judge has found a man, who stomped on a stranger’s head nine times in 22 seconds on a railway station platform, could not be held criminally responsible for murder because of his mental health impairment.
Specialist fire investigators and detectives have been called in to probe a blaze which has damaged parts of a council chambers during a pre-dawn fire sparked near the building’s front foyer.
A woman is set to face an upgraded charge of assault causing death after an elderly bus passenger succumbed to head injuries which police allege he suffered after being bashed with a ream of paper at a suburban Newcastle bus stop.
A woman caught driving while disqualified just months after being released from jail for killing a female pedestrian while speeding and with meth in her system has again been granted parole – this time to go to drug rehab.
A body has been discovered in the search for a missing boatie, who disappeared in Lake Macquarie while trying to recover a yacht which had run aground. Here’s what we know.
A young motorcyclist has died after his machine was involved in a collision with another car on a Hunter road. Read the latest.
Detectives investigating the alleged stabbing murder of a young man on a suburban street following a comment over littering are set to travel to Queensland following the dramatic arrest of a suspect at the centre of a manhunt.
A man who fell overboard from a cargo ship off the NSW coast has been found on a Swansea beach alive after swimming for more than eight kilometres over 24 hours.
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