It’s taken an in-court tiff with a magistrate and a trip to the Supreme Court, but a disgruntled Lysterfield motorist has managed to get a $500 fine for not wearing his seatbelt overturned. Here’s how he did it.
A judge has told a burglar jailed for stealing an arsenal of high-powered guns from a Toorak home he’s “run out of chances”, with many of the stolen weapons still missing.
A former Wesley College and Trinity Grammar schoolboy had just returned from a volunteer trip to Cambodia when he asked a girl he knew over to his house because he was “upset”. What then happened left her with “profound anguish and anxiety”.
It started with a clash over the best way to Cranbourne. But when a “drunk and aggressive” passenger pulled the taxi’s handbrake and got out with the driver’s ID the “scared” Werribee cabbie took matters into his own hands.
A paedophile’s victims and their families have reacted outside court after the former Dandenong High teacher was sentenced for raping and indecently assaulting several boys.
A teen brute who invaded homes and carjacked, robbed, assaulted and terrorised his way across Melbourne’s east and southeast during a brazen crime spree will be out of prison in less than three years.
A menace who impersonated a cop during a month-long crime rampage across the city has begged to be locked up, saying he will be “unable to comply” with a parole order. But he could still be free by the end of the year.
A conwoman from Colombia used a stolen ID to dupe authorities into granting her bail. But her transgender status then convinced a County Court judge to spare her jail time.
An illegal brothel in Melbourne’s south continues to trade as a massage parlour with a front door sign advertising its status. But, thanks to one simple act, people arriving for a “good time” may unknowingly find themselves in strife.
A CROOK found with two loaded unregistered guns and more than 100 grams of ice at his Epping home will only spend six months in jail.
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