Hidden away in a Croydon backyard shed was SA’s biggest meth lab, capable of making 15kg of the drug in one hit. One of the men involved was trying to help his cousin’s pub. Another just wanted to have a child.
In a rare move, one of five victims that confronted the man that abused them as children has come forward to tell his story.
A meth cook for the Hells Angels, who ordered his son to shoot his former boss dead, has seen his murder charge downgraded and his sentence reduced.
A high-profile privacy expert wanted on an international arrest warrant over sex claims involving homeless children in Australia is thought to be in Belgium — but a legal twist could hinder extradition attempts.
THE truck hit the wall like a bomb going off; 25 tonnes of metal smashing into a pub at high speed. Five people would die, but the driver just smiled as he stepped over a survivor and ran into the night.
THE former boss of a man shot dead while working on a farm south of Brisbane wrote a letter pleading with authorities to look further into the case, which police determined was an accident.
GONE are the days of the handlebar moustache, ripped jeans and leather jackets and men who fought over the patch you wore on your vest. Now cash is king, loyalty is dead and business is conducted between historically bitter enemies. Welcome to our bikie scene in 2018.
A FORMER co-owner of the farm where a young man died in a workplace shooting told an inquest of the moment he phoned the site after hearing of the shocking death, only to be left “flabbergasted” by the response at the other end of the line.
JEFFREY Brooks told of fears he’d be killed at the farm where he worked, saying hostilities had turned his dream job into a nightmare. His former employer told him he’d been “watching too much TV” but the next he heard of Mr Brooks, he was dead.
A MAN who police believed died in a shooting accident on a Queensland farm had borrowed a shotgun from his brother, saying he may need it to defend himself against hostile co-workers.
JEFFREY Brooks feared for his life. The young scientist believed he was going to be murdered at his Brisbane workplace – and that those involved would try and make it look like an accident.
THE Courier-Mail today launches Dead Wrong, a special investigation into a shooting death where everything pointed to murder, but the investigating officers couldn’t see it. The victim’s family wants the case reopened so justice can finally be delivered.
THE twists, heartbreak and intrigue of the Karen Ristevski case gripped us from the moment we heard the 47-year-old Melbourne mum had vanished without a trace.
TWO people cowered in the apartment as Bronson ‘Lizard Man’ Ellery beat his ex Shelsea Schilling to death, only coming out once the screaming had stopped. For the first time, new details can be revealed about one of the Gold Coast’s most shocking murder-suicides.
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