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Imran AliSenior Court Reporter

Imran Ali is a senior court reporter for the Herald Sun, based in Melbourne. He has more than 20 years experience in news reporting across Fiji, New Zealand and now in Melbourne. He takes a keen interest in rugby.

Imran Ali

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West

Much-loved grandmother Caroline Buttigieg was killed after a driver ran a red light at Point Cook and ploughed into her car.

Drink-driving hoon filmed himself before fatal collision with granny

A drunken hoon who filmed himself speeding because ‘‘I could not get any attention in the real world” ploughed into a beloved grandmother after running a red light.

Goulburn Valley

Omar Chkhaidem was one of two men who who avoided paying more than $4m in excise duty on 15,470kg of tobacco harvest in Cobram, Yarroweyah

Crooks smoked after illegal tobacco haul bust

Authorities busted two illegal tobacco growers in regional Victoria with 15 tonnes of crop who evaded paying at least $4m in excise duty.

Melbourne City

A 62-year-old Beerwah man, arrested by Taskforce Argos detectives, was using intimate images to pose as a woman online and meet with child abusers while hiding a secret stash of abuse material himself, court documents have alleged. Photo: iStock

Grub swapped gift cards for child abuse material in sick trade

A vile sex offender tried to claim he wanted to buy a child to save them for the “sex scene” after he was busted exchanging gift cards for sickening child abuse material.

Inner South

Christopher Noti has pleaded guilty to trafficking heroin and attempting to possess a marketable quantity of cocaine.

St Kilda cafe owner ran smack empire in between serving coffees

A businessman ran a heroin trafficking empire out of his St Kilda cafe in cahoots with his girlfriend and a drug ring player.

West

Would-be dad Benjamin Singleton died from multiple stab wounds in the presence of his partner.

Father-to-be died in partner’s arms after day spa stabbing

A violent thug plunged a knife into a family man who died in the arms of his pregnant partner on her birthday outside a Point Cook day spa.

Melbourne City

Timothy Bryant faced the Frankston Magistrates Court on Wednesday on a single charge of possessing child abuse material.Â

Grub blames hackers for child abuse material on computer

A pervert busted with child abuse material claimed online hackers downloaded the vile images and videos on to his electronic devices.

South East

Albert Sulemani has been sentenced to more than seven years' imprisonment for violent offending, including firing a shot at a house in search of his girlfriend.

Gun-wielding madman fired gun at house in search for girlfriend

A gun-wielding violent thug fired at a Chadstone house while trying to find his runaway girlfriend and nearly ran over a man during his wild crime spree.

West

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Meth smugglers busted with staggering 600kg of ice

Authorities seized more than 600kg of ice hidden inside a shipment of toilet rolls with an estimated street value of $560m, arresting a major offender before he departed Melbourne Airport.

West

Armed junkie’s terrifying crime spree across Melbourne west

A bandit who terrorised small businesses using a replica gun across Melbourne’s western suburbs gave his wife the cash he stole from a brothel.

West

‘My son will never have a father’: Wife’s tears after partner stabbed

A much-loved family man stabbed in the chest outside a day spa at Point Cook died in the presence of his pregnant partner on her birthday.

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