Mum reveals how ‘instinct’ saved her from thumbtack bomb
A Sydney mum has stared down her alleged attackers while revealing the “instinct” that saved her from near-certain death when young men let off a bomb on her front veranda.
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A Sydney mum has stared down her alleged attackers while revealing the “instinct” that saved her from near-certain death when young men let off a bomb on her front veranda.
There has been a huge development in the case of Cleo Smith after Terence Kelly faced court charged with her abduction.
Terence Darrell Kelly has pleaded guilty to abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith while she was on a camping trip with her family.
CCTV has been released as police work out who murdered a Western Sydney man in a hail of bullets in front of his girlfriend.
The father of a man innocently gunned down in an intended gangland hit has pleaded for gun change in the hopes it will stop the escalating violence on Sydney’s streets.
Never-before seen photos show what life is like inside the Alameddine clan and their devotion to Rafat Alameddine, the man police allege is the boss.
A sovereign citizen conspiracy theorist who threatened an MP has lost a bid to have an anti-terror court order removed because he was too deranged to be classed as a terrorist.
Caroline and Jack Chamoun were arrested by police just days before Christmas over the alleged plot to teach their one-time investment and business partner a lesson.
Two teenage boys have been charged after a third was left battered and bruised in an alleged robbery overnight.
A man was allegedly caught drink-driving with a toddler in his car twice in one night, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and inner west.
One of three men sought by police over alleged criminal activity in southwest Sydney has been arrested and charged. Two men, including Masood Zakaria (pictured), are still being sought.
Two Comanchero bikie associates with links to Tarek Zahed have faced court after being arrested, allegedly in possession of $1 million worth of drugs and a 9mm pistol.
Two cops who were arrested in 2020 for having sex with a Sydney schoolgirl were sent to Silverwater jail on remand. Read what happened inside.
Billal Mahfoud narrowly escaped an assassination attempt last month, and now he has been charged for abusing a female police officer.
Alo-Bridget Namoa was married to her husband for less than a month before they planned to become Sydney’s “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” and attack people with knives.
Police say heroin is making a comeback on streets around the country, and they say Asian crime gangs are behind the dangerous drug’s resurgence.
A man has surrendered to police after allegedly walking the streets firing shots and taking a hostage in a dive shop in Windang, south of Sydney. See the video here.
A 23-year-old Central Coast man allegedly used a video-chat website to advertise his search for children to have sex with him.
Jaemie Emily Little, who was 19 when charged with working for a suburban supply syndicate dubbed the ‘Deliveroo for cocaine’, used the drug to deal with an undiagnosed mental health issue, a court heard.
A dispute over a neighbourhood parking space allegedly escalated into a brawl between three men, involving a machete, hockey stick and cricket bat.
One of the state’s most respected judges has questioned why a convicted sex offender was freed on bail by one of his colleagues.
A magistrate has blasted Ian Stenlake for allegedly yelling at paramedics after crashing a Vespa, rejected suggestions the actor has bipolar disorder.
It’s alleged a man who was shot dead by police in Seven Hills in Sydney’s west on Tuesday charged at them armed with a knife and an axe.
One Sydney area has been cemented as the state’s murder capital with assaults and robberies also skyrocketing. See if you live in one of the city’s most dangerous suburbs.
Mohamad Omar, arrested following investigations into the murder of Sydney gangland figure Mejid Hamzy, has been released.
A dealer’s decision to kick a customer out of his car in the middle of a deal because he wasn’t wearing a mask, has backfired.
Having grown up on the sands of Maroubra Beach, they are now part of the Bra Boy “family” – with the group’s tattoo seeing their names added to the list of those to dominate the beach.
A man questioned by police over the weekend death of a 34-year-old woman in a forest cabin on the state’s mid-north coast has been released.
A bungled rollout of mobile speed camera fines is continuing to split the state in two — those who cop mobile speeding fines and those who do not.
A NSW judge has allowed an 18-year-old to continue to smoke cannabis as part of his bail conditions, angrting the attorney-general.
Gang rapist Mohammed Skaf will wear an ankle bracelet all day every day, including showering and in bed, and the bracelet can also be tested to see if he has used alcohol or drugs.
Darko Desic was 13 months into a three-and-a-half year sentence when he escaped from Grafton Jail on August 1, 1992. On Sunday, he surrendered saying life back inside was better than being homeless.
A man who set upon a Sydney grandmother during a robbery was earlier convicted of killing three elderly people in the 1990s, it has been revealed in court.
A man who police say holds extreme right-wing views has been arrested in country NSW over allegedly possessing instructions to 3D-print a gun.
Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid is facing more jail time over a conspiracy that resulted in a multimillion-dollar windfall for his family.
A driver who killed two of his friends after rolling during a road trip that had been live-streamed to social media has learnt his fate.
The Skaf gang’s reign of terror began just before the Sydney Olympics when a 14-year-old girl was indecently assaulted on a train by a group of young men.
Detectives who locked up Neddy Smith described him as the most evil man in Sydney. The infamous criminal has died at Long Bay jail aged 76.
Labor has called on the NSW Government to oppose the proposed parole for Mohammed Skaf, who could walk from jail within weeks.
Numa Gautam stabbed her husband Santosh, a popular local cricketer, with a pair of scissors after he attacked her — now a judge has handed down her fate.
Rochelle Kennedy says a jail term given to her ex Martin Saunders for shaking their baby boy to death is not long enough.
She allegedly helped kidnap a woman — now a teen mum-to-be has asked for release on bail despite her chequered past.
A man who caused a crash that killed a young cop who was engaged and expecting a child has learnt his fate in court.
The alleged mastermind of the kidnapping of former Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been released on strict bail.
A man who went on a violent rampage across Sydney had previously been arrested with a Koran including an underlined passage about judgment day, an inquest today heard.
Police have charged a man over drug possession and the alleged assault of a frontline worker at a Sydney Covid testing site.
The head of Hillsong Church Brian Houston has sensationally been charged with allegedly concealing child sex offences.
New figures, obtained exclusively under freedom of information, show a questionable divide around policing in two areas of Greater Sydney.
A woman has been charged with possessing ammunition and hindering a police investigation after a man was shot in his right foot.
New figures, obtained exclusively under freedom of information, show a questionable divide around policing in two areas of Greater Sydney.
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