Sydney Airport has been hit by an invasion of elderly foreign drug mules who have told Australian Federal Police officers that they were forced into smuggling after being scammed and blackmailed by overseas criminals. 

The only photograph that Kathleen Fol-bigg has of her four dead children – is a treasured, but battered newspaper clipping from 2003, when she was found guilty of smothering her four infant kids. 

A criminologist says there has been a “major stuff-up” in the investigation into the disappearance of William Tyrrell, where police have been under pressure to get outcomes not possible without “eroding due process”,  

Patients will be checked in to serviced apartments complete with ensuites and living areas while they recuperate, under a state government “medi hotel” trial designed to free up hospital beds. 

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