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.
Crime In Focus
Horrific video of OneFour rappers’ Rooty Hill pub brawl
Sickening footage reveals the moment two OneFour rappers use a hammer and wooden chair leg to bash three men inside a western Sydney pub. SEE THE VIDEO. Warning: Graphic
Punter guilty of Dapto Dogs bookie murder
Terry Hickson has been found guilty of murdering a Sydney greyhound bookmaker 30 years ago, stabbing Charles Skarratt to death in a botched robbery after the bookie returned from the Dapto racetrack.
Child rapist set free but we can’t tell you who he is
One of Australia’s most feared paedophiles is set to be secretly allowed back into the Victorian community without supervision. But for legal reasons we can’t say who he is.
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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.
The Aussie drug lord no one can catch
YOU’VE never heard his name or seen his full image, but this 57 year old is thought to be one of Australia’s biggest criminals.
The undoing of a cold-blooded wife-killer
A SMUG former cop was so confident he’d got away with staging his wife’s murder he told officers they would soon be shouting him drinks to apologise, but he hadn’t counted on some deft detective work.
Ivan Milat’s killing grounds 25 years on
A quarter of a century ago two orienteers found a body in the Belanglo State forest sparking a hunt for one of Australia’s worst serial killers.
Our worst killer women inmates
THEY are among the most dangerous women in prison and authorities don’t know how to cope if they’re ever released.
Depraved killer’s shocking prison persona
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
Special Report: The real Carly Ryan
IT’S the murder that captured the nation’s attention — for all the wrong reasons. Here, Court Reporter Sean Fewster sifts rumour, gossip and transcript for the truth about Carly Ryan and the man who killed her.
The one question that broke the Truro murders case
SEVEN young women were kidnapped, raped, murdered and dumped north of Adelaide by a charming young psychopath and his doting accomplice. This is the inside story of how police finally solved the Truro serial killings.
WARLORD: From refugee to supervillain
HE fled Afghanistan aged 7, a scared refugee boy. He felt violence was his only way through life. By 26, Farhad Qaumi was Sydney’s remorseless supervillain.
Real-life siege like Al Pacino heist movie
IT started with a bank robbery, then became a hostage-taking and finally a wild chase involving 39 police cars, a helicopter, four water launches and scores of media. But the most extraordinary moment was when an Australian detective was shot between the eyes — and lived.
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