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Anthony Dowsley is a senior journalist based in Melbourne for the National News Network who has a special interest in investigating crime and the justice system. In 2018 he was named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and won the Gold Walkley the following year for his investigation into the Lawyer X scandal involving lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo. Contact Anthony at anthony.dowsley@news.com.au

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2014 AFL Grand Final match between Hawthorn Hawks and the Sydney Swans at the MCG Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 27, 2014. Toby Mitchell watches from the stands. AFLGF2014 Picture: Nicole Garmston

Bikie accused of threatening infant girl

EX-BANDIDOS bikie Toby Mitchell has been charged with threatening to kill a man’s infant daughter in an alleged $300,000 extortion attempt.

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Copy picture of the murdered couple Terence and Christine Hodson. Terrence Hodson. Terry Hodson. Picture: Bill Mcauley

High-profile lawyer linked to fatal leak

A HIGH-profile lawyer is suspected of being involved in the leaking of documents that exposed Terry Hodson as a police informer months before his murder.

VIC News

Press Conference for Anthony Mundine vs Sergey Rabchenko for the WBC World Silver, Light Middleweight Title at Hisense Arena on Wednesday the 12th of November. Mick Gatto. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Bikie mates and crims ringside for Gatto

THE usual suspects were all there. Leading the pack was underworld identity Mick Gatto, with fights regular and former bikie Toby Mitchell and notorious Perth criminal John Kizon in the crowd.

National

Teen terror suspect shot dead

THE terror suspect killed by police has been identified as Numan Haider, an 18-year-old who has spoken of his hatred of the AFP and ASIO.

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A Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a City Road South Melbourne Shop. The shop is undergoing renovations and due to open as a tattoo parlour. Picture; Nicole Garmston

Molotov cocktail hit on tattoo parlour

BIKIE links will be investigated over the pre-dawn firebombing of a soon-to-be-opened tattoo shop in Melbourne’s inner south.

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19/05/2008 NEWS: Glenn Wheatley release. Electronic ankle bracelet, like the one Glenn will wear while on home detention, during the remainder of his sentence.

Tags to track risky inmates ‘dropping out’

ELECTRONIC bracelets monitoring risky inmates “drop out’’ up to 10 times a day, a prison source reveals, as the seventh sex offender in eight years absconds from Corella Place in Ararat.

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Tattooed man link to missing ‘Bung’

UPDATE: MISSING schoolgirl Siriyakorn “Bung’’ Siriboon may have been casually looking out from the inside her abductor’s car unaware she was being taken away.

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