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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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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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FOR PODCAST SERIES -PLEASE SPEAK TO NETWORK PIC DESK Graham Loughlan Harrison a sex offender who committed fresh offences while wearing a GPS tracker.

New jail fail for devious rapist

One of Australia’s worst sex offenders has failed in his bid to stop a prison transfer from Goulburn to Lithgow, after corrections bosses warned of his manipulation of both staff and inmates.

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MAFS couple Ryan Donnelly and Jacqui Burfoot

‘Truly scared’: MAFS groom faces court after fallout with ex ‘wife’

As MAFS comes before a magistrate, TV groom Ryan Donnelly claims TV “wife” Jacqui Burfoot has continuously harassed and abused him online via social media posts and direct messages.

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The Daily Telegraph Tuesday 22 April 2025Winter Flu SeasonMum Ruth Smith and 1 year old Nathan are getting the flu jab as health experts predict a severe flu season. Picture Thomas Lisson

Horror flu season: Jab push as child immunisation rates fall

So far this year, 23,428 people have been hit with the flu, up from just over 18,000 over the same period last year. With a challenging season predicted, “at risk” people are urged to get vaccinated.

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 19, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in New South Wales. The Prime Minister and Minister Jason Clare attend the Sydney Royal Easter Show, held every year during the Easter period in Sydney Olympic Park in the electorate of Reid. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

PM left horrified by savage Sydney crime

Sydney has seen its share of violence over the years yet the city, including Anthony Albanese, remains in shock at the savagery of a woman’s kidnap and killing which the PM described as “just horrific’’.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 18: Police and Forensics are at the home on Edward Street in Bankstown, where a crime scene has been established after a 45year old woman was kidnapped from her home, her 2 sons bashed with a baseball bat now in hospital, late last night. The woman later found deceased in a burnt out car on Welfare street in Beverly Hills. A body has been found inside a car that was engulfed by flames in SydneyÃs south. Emergency services were called to Welfare Ave in Beverly Hills following reports of a car fire about 11.30pm on Thursday. Fire and Rescue NSW extinguished the blaze, but the car was destroyed, an investigation is underway. Photo: Gaye Gerard / NewsWire

Did Asian crime lords order kidnap killing that’s shocked Sydney?

Detectives investigating the savage abduction and killing of a woman and beating of an eight year old child in Sydney’s south west have launched a massive manhunt for the evil perpetrators of a crime that’s horrified the city.

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Police in the Beverley Hills street on Friday morning.

Sydney’s brutal new low: CCTV shows woman’s kidnap killing

Shocking footage has captured the moment masked killers brandishing a gun and baseball bat broke into a Sydney home, assaulted a child before kidnapping a woman and leaving her for dead in a burning car. See the vision.

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Foreign teen charged for alleged recruitment role in international cash for killing operation. The AFP has charged a juvenile foreign national in Sydney for allegedly using an encrypted application to facilitate plans for overseas contract killings on behalf of a transnational criminal syndicate. The foreign teen arrest. Picture: AFP

Teen accused of ‘cash for kill’ plot allegedly linked to Swedish gangs

After the boy’s parents sent him to Sydney for a fresh start, Danish police allegedly caught him trying to recruit killers online from a suburban home in the western suburbs.

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Teen charged over alleged role in Nordic cash for killing operation

A Sydney teen is facing the prospect of life in jail after he was allegedly caught trying to recruit people to commit contract murders across northern Europe in exchange for cash.

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Nineteen-year-old Jade Muscat had her black Jaguar F-Pace seized by police on Saturday, after she was allegedly busted speeding down the Hume Highway three times in three hours clocking up speeds of more than 200km/h near the small town of Gunning. Picture: Supplied

Paddington P-plater allegedly caught speeding three times in a day

The teen had her black Jaguar F-Pace confiscated by police on Saturday, after she was allegedly busted speeding down the Hume Highway three times in three hours.

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