A black widow killer at the centre of a bungled assassination plot that left two men dead is fighting to overturn her conviction claiming she didn’t get a fair trial after the judge ruled out self-defence.
A serial rapist who subjected a female jogger to a terrifying 2.5-hour ordeal along the Merri Creek Trail says his jail sentence is manifestly excessive.
David Picken was just 26 when he was exposed to deadly asbestos particles when working for Centrelink in the 1970s. Now, with months to live, he’s won a settlement claim.
Tarryn Thomas called his ex-girlfriend to breathe heavily down the line in a series of calls made while the former Kangaroos rising star was midway through a men’s behaviour course.
The horrific final moments of Brunswick teenager Isla Bell were captured on CCTV while her accused killer allegedly beat her on the kitchen floor of his apartment, before her body was stored in a fridge for weeks.
The state’s top coroner says Victoria Police’s family violence unit “fell far short of best practice” in the days before a Seaford woman was stabbed to death by her abusive ex-partner.
Former politician and the cousin of ex-Premier Ted Baillieu is fighting in a scandalous turf war on the Mornington Peninsula against his wealthy neighbour.
The mother of a man stabbed 14 times during his attempt to steal some bikes has admitted that while he was doing the wrong thing, he didn’t deserve to die for it — and wants the men responsible to face charges.
Joe Lo Bianco, who bludgeoned his wife to death in the garage of their family home before inviting his 11-year-old daughter to “go and say hi”, has been jailed for 24 years.
A Melbourne dad became second in charge to a tobacco syndicate’s ringleader and would order youths to carry out revenge attacks in an escalating turf war, a court has heard.
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