Police won’t charge the strictly religious parents of a newborn baby boy who died severely malnourished in their Geelong home because the couple believed their faith – not the medical system – would save him.
The fate of a drug-abusing Melbourne criminal barrister and former state prosecutor hangs in the balance after police allegedly uncovered illicit drugs and a prosthetic penis during a raid on his apartment.
Richmond superstar Shai Bolton has been reunited with his premiership medals 20 months after they were taken and the 36-year-old man who allegedly stole them has told a court of his “bad drug habit”.
The family of a young man shot dead in a revenge plot gone wrong has been further devastated after a court ruled it could not take into account their grief.
The widow of Frank Cassar, the man known as ‘Australia’s worst landlord’, has won a years-long battle against her estranged son over her husbands $15m estate.
Ex-Beaconsfield Primary School teacher Nicholas O’Shea has blamed his drinking for sending hundreds of nude pictures to former students.
An alleged gunman has faced court over a terrifying road rage spat in Fawkner, in which one man was shot and others were terrorised with weapons.
More than 100 accused murderers have cut deals for manslaughter charges in the past decade, shaving years off their sentences and leaving victims’ families “powerless”.
On the day her son’s killers were sentenced, they smiled and winked for TV cameras. Karen Henry says they knew they’d worked the system and won.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged over a fatal hit and run in Preston last weekend.
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