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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

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 17: In this photo illustration, a teenage child looks at a screen of age-restricted content on a laptop screen on January 17, 2023 in London, England. The Bill aims to protect young and vulnerable viewers by introducing new rules for social media companies which host user-generated content, and for search engines, which will have tailored duties focussed on minimising the presentation of harmful search results. Content that platforms will need to remove includes child sexual abuse material, revenge pornography, selling illegal drugs or weapons, and terrorism. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Grub lands in court over grooming minors for sex

An emotionally “stunted” sex grub says he groomed minors online as an alternative for sex and to manage mood swings.

Outer East

Dandenong South-based Elastomers failed to provide and maintain a safe workplace that resulted in a worker's death.

Worker’s death lands rubber supplier in court

A worker fractured his skull, lost about two litres of blood, went into cardiac arrest and died during a horrific workplace accident in Dandenong South

Melbourne City

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos FEBRUARY 21ST 2024 : Woolworths signage, as the Woolworths CEO resigns and Treasurer Jim Chalmers talks about the Wage Price Index and the Albanese Governments cost-of-living tax cuts. PICTURE : NCA Newswire / Nicki Connolly

Supermarket giant underpaid long service leave over three years

A supermarket giant has been taken to court for underpaying more than 1200 former staff upwards of $1m in long service leave.

Outer East

Infant milk fraudster conned businesses out of $500k

A cunning con artist ruined the lives of hard working families when she conned three businesses out of $550,000 in exchange for the supply of infant milk formula that never arrived.

Melbourne City

Deviant abused young girl and tried to bribe her, court hears

A sexual deviant gave a 7-year-old girl a long hug and sexually assaulted her before offering to bribe her with “something special”.

Bass Coast News

Sarah-Jane Lysette died after a vehicle, driven by Tyler Pearce, reversed into her at a Traralgon hotel.

Young driver faces court over tragic death of woman in carpark

Gripped by fear of a stumbling woman in a hotel carpark in Mt Waverley, a young driver quickly reversed and slammed into her which led to her death.

Outer East

Former boxing champ burns down father’s house

Hand-picked by Aussie boxing great Jeff Fenech, a former Victoria pugilist burnt down his father’s house while his family was grieving the loss of a loved one.

Mildura

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

Pensioner busted hauling drugs into Victoria for crime lord

The lure of $8000 payday from a crime kingpin got a 75-year-old with Parkinson’s disease on a cross-country drug run from South Australia to Victoria.

Melbourne City

Fantasiser’s vile online chat about sexual abuse of kids revealed

A vile online user told another paedophile Nazis were his ultimate fantasy and described how he would sexually assault a child as it was being born.

South East

A Templestowe bookkeeper has âstolenâ years of a business ownerâs retirement on top of committing fraud, transferring $140,000 from his account into her personal one.

Crook bookkeeper nicked half a million from family-owned business

A serial thief hired as a bookkeeper preyed on the trust of her employer and fleeced the business of more than $500,000 over four years.

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