A Wyndham Council worker disciplined for harassing a female colleague denied his workplace behaviour crossed the line. And he was so enraged at how he was treated over the incident, he took legal action against his employer for discrimination.
A woman who paid a $50,000 deposit for a house in Tarneit that never got built has been given a full refund after VCAT ruled she had been “misled”.
A man who murdered his mother in their Werribee home, stabbing her at least 19 times in a frenzied attack, has been jailed for 20 years.
A middle-aged hoon with a suspended licence told police he was “just being a d***head” when he did a burnout in a Point Cook in a street. And a magistrate has told the father of six to grow up.
A Hoppers Crossing student who sent more than $100,000 of taxpayers’ money back to India as part of a two-year tax fraud scheme has been jailed.
A young thug was “flying high” when he held a knife to a stranger sitting on a park bench in Werribee, only to get away with $50 and a broken mobile phone. And during his sentencing, a judge gave him some stern advice.
Rat faeces, goat and chicken meat soaking in a sink of dirty water and grease dripping down the walls of one Hoppers Crossing restaurant have landed the owner with a $25,000 fine.
A man who tied up his housemate and forced him to drink turpentine in a vicious attack sparked by a dispute about their St Albans living arrangements has been jailed for at least five years.
A “devoted” charity worker who pocketed more than $73,000 of taxpayers’ money in a Centrelink rort spanning eight years, has been jailed.
He went on a violent rampage, smashed up their house and threatened to kill them. But the parents of this former captain of a Werribee football club, ice addict and gambler have stood by their son, pleading for his him to be freed from jail.
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