Dark side to London attacker’s childhood home
London Bridge attacker Usman Khan is not the first terrorist to rock Stoke-on-Trent. The English town has become known as a hot-bed for Islamic terrorism.
Crime In Focus
Paedophile MP Orkopoulos granted parole
Authorities have granted paedophile and ex-Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos parole after 12 years behind bars despite urging “a high degree of caution”.
Standover bikie used fake tongue in debt threat
A bikie enforcer has been jailed after he produced a ziplock bag containing flesh and blood and pretended it was a human tongue to terrify a man over a financial dispute.
Last-minute fight to keep terrorists locked up
London’s terror attack last week has spurred the federal government to pass a bill to ensure some of the country’s most notorious convicted terrorists — who are eligible for parole — stay behind bars.
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When a killer prowled the northern beaches
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
Motive for share house executions still baffles
THEY were random victims — three young people set on a collision course with a deadly stranger by an innocent ad for a housemate. Just weeks after the chilling killings, the cold-blooded murderer was ready to strike again, only to be thwarted by exceptional acts of bravery.
How a boy became a sadistic killer
THE shocking murder trial involving the death of Callington woman Pirjo Kemppainen provided disturbing insights into the mind of the teenage boy who killed her.
Aussie serial killers: Seven murders in seven weeks
WHEN the young women and girls went missing no one thought their disappearances suspicious, let alone connected them — even after the first body was found.
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