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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.

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Melbourne City

Fraudsters harvested and sold ID of bank customers to fraudsters

A cannabis user pocketed more than 12k by selling fraudulently-obtained bank account details to scammers online in order to fund his drug addiction.

Melbourne City

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Young man who repeatedly rapes vulnerable woman learns his fate

A violent thug high on drugs and alcohol was allowed into an apartment after telling its occupant he was feeling anxious and ended up repeatedly raping her.

Melbourne City

Sacked Metro Trains executive Peter Bollas during a break in County Court proceedings.

Sacked Metro Trains exec received kickbacks from cleaning company

A former Metro Trains manager was sacked after an IBAC inquiry received $30,000 in secret commissions from a cleaning company he issued contracts to.

Goulburn Valley

Daniel Lea has gone to jail for threatening a Kyabram man in his house with a machete and trying to extort $20,000 from him.

Machete-wielding man tried to extort 20k during home invasion

A meth-fuelled violent thug walked into a Kyabram man’s house with a machete and demanded $20k in cash or else he’d get “a shotgun in the guts”.

West

Emilia Wang leaving County Court after being sentenced to a community corrections order.

Arsonist sets fire to a house in anger then hands herself in

Young woman torches her ex-partner’s parents’ Brookfield house and kills the family cat following fiery text messages between the former love birds.

North

n17mv699 Stabbing at Westfield Shopping centre, Airport West. Police forensic team work at the scene where a lady was stabbed on the car park roof top.

Unlicensed driver rams police cars with stolen vehicle

Cornered by police in a shopping centre carpark, an unlicensed driver in a stolen vehicle rammed cop cars and injured an officer in a desperate bid to escape.

North

The man known as XX who was, as a child, kidnapped and abused by serial sex predator Colin Charles Humphrys.

Man forced to hand over thousands in Mernda kidnapping

A man was forced into a rental van and ordered to pay $50,000 while a knife was being held over his head after one of his captors said he’d bad mouthed people.

Outer East

Diesel Handley was on bail, unlicensed and driving an unregistered car when he ran a red light, killing motorcyclist Darrell Chepseba at the intersection of Middleborough Road/Burwood Highway in Burwood East on January 6, 2023

Killer driver learns his fate for causing the death of motorcyclist

A grieving family has lashed out at the sentence imposed on an unlicensed driver who ran a red light and killed a “dearly loved son and brother”.

Leader

Scott Alexander Edwards leaves County Court after pleading guilty to trafficking in a drug of dependance.

Pensioner’s cross-country drug run cut short by police

The lure of $8000 in exchange for a cross-country drug run from Adelaide to Melbourne was hard to resist for a financially stricken pensioner.

Leader

Zakaria El-Kurdi leaving the County Court after being released on a good behaviour bond following his conviction for importing tobacco without paying more than $1m in duty.

Businessman’s attempted $1.6m tobacco fraud

A Melbourne businessman’s plan to avoid paying $1.6m in Customs duty on more than one tonne of undeclared imported tobacco has been laid bare in court.

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