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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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Communities from the city to the bush are “living in fear” after the escalating behaviour of young crims lead to the deathsof two innocent people in just seven days. Locals from Tamworth to Sydney’s west say the youth crime crisis is “at its worst ever”, and are pushing for serious changeto stop the kids responsible.

‘Afraid to go outside at night’: Youth crime worst it’s ever been

Just days after a Kingswood pizza shop owner was stabbed to death by a gang of youths, business owners in neighbouring stores say coming to work has become a daunting task.

EXCLUSIVENSW

A topless bar and strip club has residents who live above it outraged and out-of-pocket, after they say they were forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover skyrocketing insurance costs associated with the adult antics downstairs

Topless bar skyrockets insurance costs for outraged unit owners

Residents living above a topless bar have had their savings stripped and are locked in a legal dispute with the Petersham Inn, after an “unfair” strata arrangement saw insurance costs soar.

Police & Courts

Abdul Hamid Lababidi, aged in his 70s, died on February 6, 2025 after he was struck by a ute while crossing the road at Greenacre. Picture: Supplied

Grandfather dies after being hit by car in Sydney’s west

An elderly man has died after being hit by a car while crossing a road in Greenacre.

VIDEOPolice & Courts

Supplied iamges of the baby that has died in a car in Earlwood on Tuesday.

Parents pay tribute to ‘beautiful baby girl’ who died in hot car

The baby girl who tragically died after she was left in a hot car on Tuesday, after mistakenly not being dropped at her daycare centre, has been identified.

VideoPolice & Courts

Pizza shop owner Sonmez Alagoz has been identified as the man fatally stabbed at The Pizza Stop, near Kingswood train station

Pizza shop owner fatally stabbed identified

The pizza shop owner fatally stabbed in Sydney’s west has been identified as police question seven teenagers arrested in connection with the death.

NSW

Dutton demands probe into Sydney terror plot handling

Anthony Albanese is facing calls for a review into how he was left clueless about a foiled plot in Sydney for more than a week as state and federal police investigated.

ExclusiveNSW

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 1 February 2025Dance Dietitian Portrait - Fumi SomeharaDance Dietitian Fumi Somehara helps young dancers with from eating disorders. Picture Thomas Lisson

‘Type of coercive control’: Dancers reveal horrors of toxic industry

Teachers in the dance industry are facing shocking claims they are fostering eating disorders in young students, with harrowing figures revealing the harmful diet beliefs held by Australian dancers.

NSW

PM can’t cut-and-run from terror plot intelligence fail, says Dutton

Peter Dutton has called for an urgent probe into a communications failure between state and federal leaders over Sydney’s foiled anti-Semitic terror plot, saying the Prime Minister can’t continue to cut-and-run from the controversy.

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Family’s miracle escape after car crashes through Sydney house

CCTV has captured the shocking moment a driver loses control of his car and ploughs into the front of a western Sydney home on Friday night.

Police & Courts

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - JANUARY 30 2025; Police and forensics are at the back of Mount Sinai College in the carpark in Maroubra as new anti-semitic graffiti plastered on property at in Sydney continues to suffer a spate of anti semitic attacks. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

Man allegedly caught spray-painting swastikas in Sydney’s east

A man will front court today after he was allegedly caught spray painting anti-semitic symbols and words in Sydney’s east.

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