Dark side to London attacker’s childhood home
London Bridge attacker Usman Khan is not the first terrorist to rock Stoke-on-Trent. The English town has become known as a hot-bed for Islamic terrorism.
Crime In Focus
Paedophile MP Orkopoulos granted parole
Authorities have granted paedophile and ex-Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos parole after 12 years behind bars despite urging “a high degree of caution”.
Standover bikie used fake tongue in debt threat
A bikie enforcer has been jailed after he produced a ziplock bag containing flesh and blood and pretended it was a human tongue to terrify a man over a financial dispute.
Last-minute fight to keep terrorists locked up
London’s terror attack last week has spurred the federal government to pass a bill to ensure some of the country’s most notorious convicted terrorists — who are eligible for parole — stay behind bars.
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A sick game played out for six grim days
TIAHLEIGH Palmer’s foster dad spent six days leading the charge to find her – but he was an actor hiding a horrific truth, writes Kate Kyriacou in the first part of our special investigation into the Queensland schoolgirl’s murder.
Phil Walsh tragedy Part 1: The misfit son who lost control
EXCLUSIVE: There were two sides to Cy Walsh, friends and family reveal — the eccentric spiritualist who adored his dad, Phil Walsh, and the troubled soul who fatally attacked the Crows coach in his bed.
Revealed: Mass murderer’s secret second life
ONE of SA’s worst mass murderers is dead after living a secret life interstate. He slaughtered 10 members of his family, then served just eight years in jail. Now Clifford Bartholomew’s ultimate fate can finally be revealed.
The imaginative ways Sydney is hiding its drugs
THE overnight seizure in Sydney of $8m of drugs in ‘copy paper’ hidden in kids’ clothes is a stark and chilling reminder of the war being waged on increasingly elaborate attempts to bring deadly drugs into Sydney.
How Baden-Clay’s tyranny broke Allison down
ALLISON Baden-Clay’s parents have shed new light on how their daughter was reduced to “nothing” by a controlling husband who left her isolated and without money before eventually murdering her.
Where underworld killers and mafia dons rest
THEY were among the most notorious gangsters in Melbourne’s history — but for all bar one, in death these underworld figures’ graves resemble those of saints. SEE THE PICTURES
Life and crimes of drug smuggler Donald Tait
FORGERY, bigamy, impersonation: Opportunist Donald Roy Tait had tried the lot before an attempted move to the big-league introduced him to households across Australia.
The ice addict, the hooker and the murderer
IT was meant to be a simple robbery but it all went horribly wrong. The inside story on how ice addict Mark ‘Zeb’ Spencer was murdered in his Gold Coast home.
Sydney a soft target for foreign thugs
NOTORIOUS foreign crime syndicates now consider Sydney such a soft target and are raking in so much money they’re putting aside longstanding feuds for one major reason. This investigation can reveal how a multicultural melting pot of gangs have taken hold of Sydney.
Huxley’s murderer ‘would kill again’
IT’S been five years since Daniel Jack Kelsall sexually assaulted and stabbed Morgan Huxley to death in his Sydney unit. Now his psychologist has made a chilling claim about the baby-faced killer.
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