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Madeline Crittenden is a reporter for The Sunday Telegraph. She joined in 2021 after covering crime and courts for several mastheads throughout NSW.

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A major manhunt is underway after immigration detainee Paea Teu, left, allegedly stabbed a Border Force contractor in the neck while under escort from Villawood to Sydney Airport, and fled, right, Pictures: Supplied

Sydney home raided in search of detainee who allegedly stabbed guards with shiv

Police have searched a southwest Sydney home for a runaway immigration detainee who continues to evade authorities after stabbing two security guards.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. MAY 15, 2025. Rory Amon, A former NSW MP, who allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old schoolboy in the bathroom of an underground car park continued sending sexually explicit messages leaves Surry Hills police station after his bail breach. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

‘Nothing serious’: Ex-MP on child sex charges breaches bail

Former Liberal MP Rory Amon spent the night in custody after breaching bail conditions relating to historical child sex charges. Here’s the latest from court.

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Nathan Large, the owner and lead instructor at a south west Sydney performing arts academy, has been charged with child sex offences following a major investigation by police in both Australia and the US. Picture: Supplied

Sydney performing arts studio owner on child sex abuse charges

The operator of a Western Sydney performing arts academy has been charged with multiple child sex offences after an international sting allegedly linked him to abuse material.

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How gunmen targeted ‘Silent Assassin’ twice in 11 days

Hayder Khudhair remains in hospital after he was ambushed and shot while driving a truck through Sydney’s southwest – the second attempt on his life in two weeks.

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Police continue investigations and set up a crime scene at a residence in Homebush West where a body was discovered overnight. Photo Jeremy Piper

Man charged after landlord’s body found in granny flat

A 31-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly stabbed his 66-year-old landlord to death during a planned visit to a Sydney share house.

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Man shot at, car set alight in Sydney’s north

Police are hunting for a gunman after a 28-year-old was shot at in the driveway of his Marsfield home. A car was found a light nearby shortly after.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, May 9, 2025. Police with a sniffer dog invesigate after a drive-by shooting of a house on Frank Street Mt Druitt, between Coates St and Dixon St, around 1:15am. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Watch: Bikie believed the target as shots fired into Mt Druitt home

Moments after alleged bikie Taniela Moeakiola arrived to visit, a western Sydney home was sprayed with bullets for the second time in four years as 11 people — including six children — slept.

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Strike Force Wighton detectives have charged a 26-year-old man with domestic violence-related manslaughter following the death of a four-week-old baby boy at Wagga Wagga in July 2023. Picture: NSW Police

Dad charged over baby’s death after ‘almost every bone broken’

A father-of-three took his newborn son to hospital saying he was struggling to breathe, but when the baby died three days later, police allegedly discovered almost every bone in his body had been broken. Now, the man has been charged.

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A man has been charged 14 years after an armed robbery on Sydney’s Northern Beaches., , , Officers from Northern Beaches Police Area Command were called to Pittwater Road, Narrabeen, shortly before 8am on Friday 22 April 2011, responding to reports of an armed robbery at a service station., , , Police were told a man had entered the store allegedly threatening a 20-year-old staff member with a sawn-off rifle., , , The man left the store with cash and was last seen running west along Robertson Street., , , Despite extensive inquiries at the time, the man was unable to be identified.

Alleged robber caught 14 years after servo held up with rifle

His arrest followed a public appeal last month, when police released CCTV images from the time of the alleged robbery.

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45-year-old man being arrested in Werombi

Father and son charged over multi-million dollar meth syndicate

Sweeping raids saw a father and son among three men charged in connection with an alleged large-scale methamphetamine manufacturing and supply operation in western Sydney.

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