At just 21, off-duty police officer Michael Pratt didn’t think twice about thwarting a trio of armed bandits as they entered a Clifton Hill bank, ramming his Mazda at the doors and earning himself a bullet in the back and a bravery medal in the process.
A NSW police officer who claimed the force had a toxic culture of homophobia after he was sacked for taking recreational drugs has revealed what he’ll do next after a five-year legal battle.
Drug kingpins be warned – your days of hiding behind street-level dealers could be numbered thanks to the work of forensic scientist Dr Marie Morelato whose research can track seized drugs back to their source. FIND OUT HOW
Queensland drug dealers are brazenly using Instagram to ply their trade, even offering users free drop off or pick up of illicit substances. SEE THE LIST OF SUBURBS
HE was a troubled businessman, she was a former prostitute, her lover was a callous killer. Shyam “Sam’’ Dhody met a brutal end, found dead in his bed after a horrific execution-style murder that had Gold Coast detectives baffled.
HE was one of Australia’s most wanted men, with a daring prison escape and multiple robberies on his rap sheet. But Greg Smith turned his fugitive years into an international bestseller, with Johnny Depp set to play Smith. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
HE jokes about police attempts to link him to a string of crimes — but when his name came up in connection with notorious drugs kingpin James Kinch even Roger Rogerson admitted: “It’s an amazing story.”
THE Gold Coast has long been the backdrop for disputes between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs, but rarely have these arguments spilt into the public sphere. All that changed in 2006 when a violent public confrontation between bikies set plans in motion to have the city’s gangs completely dismantled.
IT started with needles found in strawberries packed by two brands. It’s exploded to more than 100 incidents of ‘spiked’ fruit. Has the uproar inspired a wave of ‘copycats’?
IF you ask any long-serving Gold Coast cop what their worst day on the job has been, they’ll answer May 29, 2011. The day when one of their own — a young father and a good mate — was cruelly gunned down in a brazen tavern robbery.
CLIFF Lockwood was a big cop acquitted of murdering criminal figure Gary Abdallah, but he still paid a high price after being accused in court of executing a kneeling man like “a dog on a short leash”, writes Andrew Rule. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
AN ex-classmate of the woman at the centre of the “Teacher’s Pet” case has told how the former Sydney schoolgirl was left “damaged” by her marriage to Chris Dawson.
THE state’s anti-consorting laws designed to disrupt criminal syndicates in NSW are being used so effectively by Strike Force Raptor that bikies are now crying foul, saying the legislation is making them lonely.
SARAH Bowles was devastated the father figure in her life was missing, but then came the shocking realisation that police believed her mother had killed him and the family home had been bugged.
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