Badness wants to make amends
CAREER criminal Christopher “Badness” Binse wants to “square the ledger” and apologise to victims for a string of armed hold-ups in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Courts & Law
Hero taxi driver on how he stayed calm
IN THE face of horror, a Melbourne taxi driver sprung into action and did the impossible. Now he’s spoken about that terrible day.
Missing documents key in Jackson case
FORMER union executive Kathy Jackson has appeared in court, claiming missing records will show she didn’t claim almost $500,000 as work expenses.
Mother pleads guilty to killing children
A MOTHER has pleaded guilty to murdering her one-year-old son and four-year-old twins after she crashed her car into a lake.
Accused murderer is ‘manipulative’
A WOMAN accused of murdering a mother-of-four so she could keep the victim’s children was allegedly manipulating her ex-husband to take the fall for her.
Murder accused allegedly asked friend to help
TWO people accused of bludgeoning a Victorian mother to death with a hammer allegedly asked a friend to kill the victim on three separate occasions.
Murder accused is bipolar, court hears
A VICTORIAN woman faced court on Monday accused of mowing down her partner with her car. She did not apply for bail.
AFP seize items from terror raid house
UPDATE: POLICE have returned to a house in Melbourne’s north, as a fourth alleged suicide bomber was remanded for alleged plans to blow up parts of Melbourne on Christmas Day.
$1-an-hour workers win $100m payout
DISABLED workers who were exploited and paid as little as 99 cents-an-hour will now share in $100 million compensation.
‘They pushed me to do it’
A MAN jailed for his part in a Melbourne gang rape 34 years ago wrote at the time he was pushed to attack the woman by a group of older men.
Homeless man murdered girlfriend
MATAIO Aleluis flew into a jealous rage and bashed his girlfriend Brittany Harvie to death in a Melbourne car park, a murder trial jury accepted.
Christmas robber’s bungled cop getaway
A VICTORIAN woman has been forced to make a grovelling apology after stealing cherries then crashing her getaway car into police.
Arrest made as police raid massage parlour
POLICE have arrested a 54-year-old woman after a raid on a massage parlour in Melbourne’s northeast this afternoon.
Cowboy developers face 5 years’ jail
COWBOY developers who illegally demolish buildings will face up to five years in jail for flouting building laws in Victoria.
Dad walks free after shaking baby
A STRESSED-OUT new dad repeatedly yelled at — and then angrily shook — his five-month-old baby in front of horrified cafe patrons, a court has heard.
Mum wakes to stranger giving her lovebites
A MELBOURNE mother woke up in the night to find a stranger in her bed kissing and biting her, in what a judge called “the stuff of nightmares”.
Bitter 47-year feud ends in killing
AN 83-YEAR-OLD man is dead after allegedly being struck on the head by his 90-year-old neighbour, with whom he had a decades-long dispute.
Hoax call forced pilot to abort landing
A BAGGAGE handler allegedly forced a Virgin flight to “go around” at Melbourne Airport in one of 16 hoax calls, a court heard.
Man charged over hoax calls at airports
A MAN is facing 20 years in jail after he was charged with allegedly making unauthorised calls to planes and air traffic control at Melbourne airports.
Woman deported over love triangle killing
A WOMAN has been sent back to China for her “despicable” role in the murder of Jeremy Hu, who was killed over a love triangle.
‘Sadistic’ teacher jailed over rape plans
A RETIRED Melbourne teacher who was obsessed with the violent sexual abuse and torture of children has been jailed.
Zoe’s killer: ‘I wanted her all for myself’
FAMILY of murdered 11-year-old Zoe Buttigieg speak out about their devastation as Bowe Maddigan is sentenced.
Mother’s partner cleared of killing toddler
THE partner of a dead toddler’s mother has been cleared of murdering the two-year old, whose body was found in the roof of the home.
Rape victim held in ‘dungeon’
A VICTORIAN man has been jailed after committing monstrous rapes and keeping one captive in an old mine while he was abusing her.
Psychopath priest tore town apart
FIVE paedophile priests were sent to Doveton, but it was the fifth, Peter Searson, that locals begged the church to remove.
Former teacher had ‘disturbing’ videos
A FORMER teacher has pleaded guilty to possessing child sex abuse videos which authorities have described as some of the most disturbing.
New dad killed a day after son’s birth
A NEW dad was killed just 24 hours after his son’s birth and his wife said she felt her life suddenly ended because her new baby will never know his father.
Slain toddler’s mum giggled in 000 call
THE mother of a toddler whose body was found in a roof giggled and lied during a triple-0 call when reporting her daughter missing.
Murderer believed he was Hitler reborn
A MAN who believed he was Hitler reincarnated, bashed a man thinking he was avenging his own father who died in the Black Saturday bushfires.
‘Are you playing mind games with me?’
AN ACCUSED toddler killer believed police were playing “f**king mind games” when they told him the little girl’s body was found in the roof.
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