Gold Coast teacher in rape trial
A WOMAN was “effectively blackmailed” to have sex with a Gold Coast teacher after he threatened to reveal she’d undergone an abortion.
Courts & Law
‘Screams’ before wife was cooked
WARNING: Graphic The day before her murder, Mayang Prasetyo interrupted her sex-worker husband with a client. Then all hell broke loose, court hears.
Horror discovered behind apartment door
WARNING: Graphic content. Police thought they had stumbled upon a sick joke when they found human feet in a pot inside a Brisbane apartment.
Unlikely reason man was charged
IT was 2am and Alan Raabe had made his way to the Cairns foreshore for an anonymous meeting. Then police arrived.
Dr reveals what’s wrong with Clive
LOOKING gaunt, Clive Palmer has showed up to a Brisbane court with a sick bag and an oxygen mask as doctor reveals disease.
Jury discharged in kinky sex death trial
THE jury in a Queensland manslaughter trial has been dismissed reportedly after one of the jurors broke a fundamental rule.
Soldier missing for 18 years ‘is still alive’
SEAN Sargent trained at an elite level — but did he have enough specialised skill to create a whole new identity? A Brisbane court is trying to find out.
Baden-Clay loses his claim to $800k
GERARD Baden-Clay was listed as a beneficiary on his murdered wife’s life insurance policy but on Monday her money went elsewhere.
Devastating story inside house
WHEN neighbours heard screams, they had no idea one of our “worst mass murders” had just taken place. This is how it happened.
Cashed-up miner found naked, bound
A GOLD Coast sex worker allegedly conspired with two male friends to rob a wealthy miner while she performed a sex act on him. He ended up dead.
Paedophile’s wife calls his victim a ‘s**t’
A PAEDOPHILE who was convicted of sexually abusing a nine year-old girl will not spend a day in jail — and his wife has called the victim a “s***”.
Alleged cocaine kingpin released on bail
RESTAURANT terms such as “table of eight” were allegedly used as code by a Brisbane restaurateur and alleged cocaine kingpin to deal drugs.
All not as it seems for Candyman
FAST cars, millions in the bank and nightly four-in-a-bed romps. But court hears Travers Beynon is up to something else.
Premier accused of toddler ‘cover up’
FURY is growing in Queensland as a report over terrible death of toddler Mason Lee is kept hidden from the public by the government.
Man eats $600 meal, then flees
A MAN allegedly gorged on a $621 dinner at a Gold Coast restaurant, then tried to avoid paying by jumping into the ocean.
‘He took her from me out of spite’
THE mother of Kyhesha-Lee, whose father was jailed over the toddler’s death, says her ex-partner took her daughter from her out of “spite”.
Why mum didn’t save her dying baby
WHEN Michelle Leask saw her baby daughter having trouble breathing, she knew something was wrong – but she did not call an ambulance.
Anti-ISIS fighter in court over murder
UPDATE: A former self-proclaimed anti-Islamic State fighter has appeared in court today, charged with the murder of Brisbane man Samuel Thompson.
Stabbed Shandee crawled for help
A FORMER neighbour of Shandee Blackburn has told a court how he heard a “coughing and gagging” sound before he saw her crawling.
‘Gay panic’ law axed in Queensland
WAYNE Ruks was bashed to death and his killers claimed he made an unwanted homosexual advance. The law that downgraded their sentence has been axed.
Jury discharged in baby killing trial
THE trial of a Brisbane mum who told police she was possessed by the devil when she twice tried to kill her baby has been discharged.
‘I tried to kill my baby’, court hears
A WOMAN burst out of a hospital bathroom saying “I tried to kill my baby” the day Ashleigh Watterson is alleged to have tried to kill her child, a court has heard.
‘Devil’ made mum try to kill baby
A MUM accused of trying to kill her baby confessed to the crimes but said she was “possessed” by the devil, a court’s heard.
This shouldn’t still happen in Australia
OFTEN women don’t realise how hard it is to terminate a pregnancy until they need to. Kelly’s story shouldn’t be something that happens in Australia.
‘No one helped her. It’s disgusting’
THE mother of a Brisbane girl who died after prolonged abuse left court in tears yesterday after hearing harrowing claims. WARNING: Confronting
Abusive dad tied daughter to bed
A FATHER who admitted to the manslaughter of his daughter Kyhesha-Lee “wanted coffee and smokes” when she lay motionless and started turning blue.
Murderer’s insulting note about Tara
‘HELP me, help me, help me,’ Tara Brown screamed at an emergency operator, as Lionel Patea pursued her car. Moments later, she was dead.
Patea pleads guilty to Tara Brown’s murder
LIONEL Patea has pleaded guilty to the murder of his former partner Tara Brown on the first day of his trial.
Bikie gets life for slaying Tara
TRIPLE 0 operators listened helplessly as a young mum was brutally killed after being rammed and run off the road by her ex.
‘Are you seriously complaining?’
A JUDGE has asked a former Lorna Jane worker if she was “seriously complaining” about a few minutes of overtime.
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