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Eliza BarrSenior reporter

Eliza Barr is a senior reporter at the Daily Telegraph with a particular focus on courts. She has previously worked as the chief court reporter and general news reporter for News Corp’s suburban and regional news titles, and launched News Corp’s first ever digital-only local news title in 2018. She won the 2019 News Award for Community Journalism and the 2023 News Award for Breaking News Coverage, and is a panel guest on Sky News Australia and Triple J Hack.

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British stripper Anna Charlesworth, 19, was charged with reckless property damage after she tried to break through a glass security door when she got trapped in a Cronulla unit block. Picture: Instagram (instagram.com/anna__rachel)

‘I don’t give a f***’: Drunk stripper smashed through unit block

A teen stripper — who was so drunk she did not know what suburb she was in — has been sentenced after she smashed through a glass panel after getting stuck in a unit block.

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Thumbnail image for Dominic Green, a Sydney solicitor charged with using a recording device in a Sydney courthouse in October 2019. Picture: Instagram

Sydney solicitor forced to fight for himself in court

“Stay away from cops. Don’t be a dog.” A high-flying inner-city lawyer has failed to follow his own advice after he was charged with illegally using a recording device in a Sydney courthouse.

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Generic crime scene images showing Police tape. Crime Police Forensic. Pics Bill Hearne

Online shopper robbed at gunpoint

A man who had made arrangements to buy two phones through an online marketplace was instead confronted by a masked attacker brandishing a gun who smashed his car window and robbed him in a Sydney car park.

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Sutherland Shire police are investigating after a valuable trailer belonging to Cronulla Christian Surfers was stolen from Kingsway Church in Caringbah by an unknown person. Picture: Supplied (Dave Standen, Kingsway Church)

Surfers devastated by trailer theft

A Sydney surfing group has been left crushed by the theft of a valuable trailer packed with all their gear from a local church car park. Police are now investigating after the incident was caught on CCTV.

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A man was in a critical condition after he was stabbed by an unknown assailant at a Brighton Le Sands unit block in January 2020. Pictures from the scene. Supplied to Eliza Barr from confidential source.

Shocking picture shows Sydney unit stabbing scene

The horrific aftermath of a stabbing at a Sydney unit block which left a man in a critical condition has been revealed in a shocking photo. Warning: graphic image.

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ST GEORGE SHIRE STANDARD. Ngan Vy Bui, 18, from Ryde, was charged with commercial prohibited drug supply after she allegedly attempted to smuggle 1000 caps inside her bra into Epik Music Festival in Sydney. Photographed today 14th of January 2020 leaving Burwood Court. (AAP/Image Matthew Vasilescu)

Teen allegedly had 800 festival pills in her bra

A teen has faced court accused of trying to smuggle 800 pills in her bra and another 200 inside her body into the Epik Festival. She was one of four young people to face court for similar alleged offences.

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***Picture supplied by NSW Police Media*****A woman has been charged with murder following an investigation into a fatal house fire in Sydney’s south last year.Just after 1.30am on Saturday 7 October 2017, police and emergency services responded to reports of a house fire on San Remo Avenue, Gymea.On arrival, officers from Sutherland Shire Police Area Command located a granny flat engulfed in flames.As firefighters battled the blaze, 39-year-old, Jeffrey Lindsell, was rescued from inside the flat and taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a critical condition.Mr Lindsell suffered extensive burns and passed away in hospital on Monday 9 October 2017.Detectives from the Financial Crimes Squad’s Arson Unit established Strike Force Butler to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fire.Following extensive investigations, Strike Force Butler detectives arrested a 46-year-old woman at a home at Marrickville just after 8.30am yesterday (Thursday 14 June 2018).She was taken to Newtown Police Station and charged with murder.Police will allege in court the woman tampered with the water supply and deliberately lit the fire in the granny flat knowing Mr Lindsell was inside asleep.She was refused bail and appeared at Newtown Local Court, where she was formally refused bail to reappear at the same court on 14 August 2018.

House fire murder-accused dies before trial

A woman due to face trial for the murder of her former partner in a fatal house fire in Sydney’s south has died just weeks before her day in court.

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Residents inside Sydney home during shooting

A southern Sydney home was shot at several times while the occupants were inside in a dawn attack. It is the third public place shooting in the area in less than three months.

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NO BYLINE - Generic photographs taken of Villawood Detention Centre, Birmingham Avenue, Villawood NSW Australia - Security asked the photographer to leave.

Woman ‘lured’ into alleged illegal get-rich-quick cheme

A man in immigration detention awaiting a District Court criminal trial allegedly lured a lovestruck young woman he met on a dating app into helping him fraudulently buy and sell stolen cars.

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Detectives and police pack evidence into a waiting detectives vehicle after it was part of a police operation earlier in the day at 142 St Georgeâ€™s Road Bexley Picture : Steve Tyson

Wanted man charged over pistol in toilet

A wanted man allegedly had an illegal pistol hidden in a toilet when heavily armed tactical police descended on his home in a shocking daylight raid.

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