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Savannah Pocock is a reporter for The Daily Telegraph based in Central Sydney and focuses on courts. She was the runner-up for the 2024 Caroline Jones Young Journalist Award and previously worked for the Byron Shire News.

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VideoPolice & Courts

The scene of the crash on the Pacific Motorway about 15 minutes south of Coffs Harbour. Picture: Frank Redward

Grisly find: Man discovered dead long after crash

The man found dead on the side of the road after a horror motorway crash south of Coffs Harbour was undiscovered for almost four days. Here’s the latest.

UpdatedHills Shire

North-west Sydney will soon be home to Australiaâs largest community rugby league precinct, after the NSW Government approved the construction of the Parramatta Eels Centre of Excellence and Community Facility at Kellyville Memorial Park.

Home chosen for biggest rugby league precinct

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Inner West

Unrecognizable police officer puts handcuffs on a man for drunk driving. The man is standing next to the car.

Knives, camping mallet found at Glebe stabbing scene

A man has been arrested and charged with allegedly stabbing a man multiple times in Glebe, with police finding four knives and a camping mallet at the scene.

Police & Courts

Man torches car after being turned away from brothel

A Tweed man set a car alight in the “ultimate act of dispossession” after he was turned away from a brothel on a boozy night.

UpdatedHills Shire

Hills Police are appealing for information following the stabbing of a 15yo boy at Fred Caterson Reserve near Basketball Courts at Castle Hill on Sunday November 20, 2022

Teen charged with stabbing at Castle Hill

A teenager has been charged with stabbing another boy following an alleged argument between two groups of youths in a carpark at Castle Hill.

Liverpool

A 22-year-old woman was in her VW Golf on Macksville Street, Hoxton Park, when she was allegedly threatened by two people armed with a firearm and a knife who stole her car on November 23 2022

Three teens arrested over alleged threats, stolen cars and pursuit

Three teenagers will face court over an alleged crime spree across Sydney’s south west involving stolen cars, break and enter, threats and a police pursuit.

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Former priest charged with child sexual assault

A former priest will face court over allegations he sexually assaulted a teenage boy at a church property near Casino 40 years ago.

Police & Courts

Jonathan Kyle Gomboso-Dixon, 36, convicted at Tweed Heads Local Court for possessing a prohibited drug, cultivating a prohibited plant and drug misuse and trafficking on November 18, 2022. Picture: David Bonaddio.

‘Sophisticated’ drug enterprise stashed in shipping container

A Tweed man’s drug “enterprise” in a shipping container fitted with blacked out glass grew beyond his expectations, a court was told.

Byron Shire

Harrison Quinn exits Byron Bay Local Court after being convicted for breaching an AVO. Picture: Savannah Pocock.

‘Curiosity killed the cat’: Man didn’t last day before DV breach

A frustrated magistrate has slammed the “reckless” behaviour of a Byron diving instructor who breached a DV order in a “disturbing pattern” of offending.

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