The chief of North Richmond Community Health, which operates Melbourne’s controversial injecting room, has been stood down after two staffers were arrested in a police swoop on alleged drug traffickers.
When a 10-year-old Ali Chaouk watched his father shoot a man, he was set on a path of violence that would end with most of his family killed or imprisoned. Chaouk now has all the time in the world to ponder the destruction of his clan as he rots in jail.
Criminals long ago moved on from big armed robberies, but there was a time when violent heists on banks, armoured vans and payroll deliveries were a constant occurrence. Here are some of the most notorious bandits from that era.
Huge resources were consumed by one of the highest-profile homicide cases in the state’s history due to Borce Ristevski’s refusal to own up to killing his wife Karen for more than two years.
An Australian businessman with strong underworld links has tried to bribe a Fijian official in the $30 million John Nikolic cocaine catamaran case. The sabotage attempt emerges as Nikolic was sentenced to a maximum of more than two decades in jail.
Drug lord Tony Mokbel could be in line for a taxpayer funded payday after his brutal jailhouse bashing if he can prove prison authorities failed to protect him, legal experts say.
Detectives are zeroing in on a suspect in the slaying of gangland figure Willie Thompson — a lifelong friend of Tony Mokbel who was connected with a who’s who of Melbourne’s crime fraternity — at Chadstone 15 years ago, releasing a police image of the man.
Tony Mokbel’s brutal stabbing this week was “straight from the prison bashing manual”, one ex-prisoner says. But his attack isn’t the first in a long history of brutal jailhouse blindsides in Victoria.
Dramatic CCTV showing the moment gunmen sprayed bullets into the Melbourne home of feared Finks bikie leader Brent James Reker after setting fire to his car can now be revealed. Watch it here.
The two inmates accused of trying to kill drug lord Tony Mokbel as he walked back to his Barwon prison cell have been revealed, as the men prepare to face court on attempted murder charges.
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