Police told they can charge Cardinal Pell
AUSTRALIA’S most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, could soon face criminal charges after a lengthy investigation into historic child sex allegations.
Crime
‘Death threat’ then grisly murder
A WIDOWER seeking female company was allegedly threatened before he was found murdered in bizarre circumstances.
Woman tied up and beaten by two men
IN A brutally callous act, the burglars broke into a middle-aged woman’s home, viciously assaulted her and drove away in her car.
Four injured in Tarneit shooting, assault
LATEST: POLICE are combing through CCTV vision at a neighbouring property as they investigate the early morning shooting and assault of four people in Tarneit.
How my sister became a killer
I RECENTLY saw a headline that made me want to faint. ‘Melbourne woman murders man for cigarettes,’ it read. That woman is my sister.
Did love triangle spark deadly shooting?
A YOUNG man leaving a party was shot and left for dead in a quiet suburban street and it may have all been because of a love triangle.
Suffering ‘went on for hours’
SIMONE Quinlan was found incinerated at the bottom of a mineshaft. What she suffered beforehand defies belief.
Mystery surrounds body in apartment
THE Homicide Squad is investigating the discovery of a man’s body at an apartment block in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy last night.
Why Apex members went to the ‘bad side’
MEMBERS of Melbourne’s notorious Apex gang have revealed exactly why they went to the “bad side” and started terrorising the city.
Police in stand-off after shot fired
A WOMAN is in a property with a man who fired a shot, sparking a stand-off with police in Victoria’s north.
Crime boss survives mosque shooting
UPDATE: CRIME boss Mohammed Oueida has survived a shooting attempt on his life only months after walking out of prison to become a target of criminal rivals.
Fugitive sex offender back in custody
BREAKING: A sex offender who escaped from a minimum security prison in Victoria with one month left to serve has been caught by police.
Cameras key to Notting Hill murder
UPDATE: POLICE believe a man whose body was found near the stairway of an apartment block in Notting Hill may have been hit with a weapon.
Body found in Melbourne stairwell
HOMICIDE Squad detectives are investigating the ‘suspicious’ death of a man found in the stairway entry to an apartment block.
Two injured in Chadstone shooting
TWO men are in hospital after a double-shooting at Chadstone early this morning.
Question could have saved woman’s life
ADRIANA Donato should never have got in her ex-boyfriend’s car. But she didn’t know about the knife and his secret plot to kill her. Others did.
Girls ‘had sex in club for drugs’
A VEGAS-style strip club in Melbourne’s CBD where the body of backpacker was found is allegedly a seedy drug den, according to a dancer’s ex-boyfriend.
Murder suspect’s taunt: ‘Bring it on’
“I f**ked up a lot but I certainly never killed anyone,” says prime suspect in cold-case killing of 16-year-old Ricky Balcombe.
Twist in mystery death of dancer
THERE has been a breakthrough in the mysterious case of a British exotic dancer who was found dead in a Melbourne strip club.
Man dead after daylong siege
A MAN wanted over an aggravated burglary has died at the end of a daylong siege in Melbourne’s southwest.
Taxi driver’s grim and shocking discovery
WHEN Melbourne cabbie Muktar Hussan went to pick up the taxi he shared with his son he made a grim discovery.
Man hospitalised after attacking cop dog
INDY, a-four-year-old German Shepherd, chased got revenge on a 19-year-old Victorian man who allegedly tried to drown him.
Bourke Street mystery man named
THE man who openly strolled Melbourne’s Bourke St with a gun has been named as a former security guard who was sacked by his company.
‘Monster of depravity’ locked up
A MAN labelled a “monster of depravity” by a Victorian judge will spend a minimum of 10 years in jail after admitting 62 child abuse charges.
Dad fights off armed home invaders
A FATHER bashed and shot at while looking after his teenage daughter said he had to fight off a gang from pushing their way into his Melbourne home.
Woman begged for help on tram
A TERRIFIED woman pleaded for help from fellow tram passengers but was ignored just minutes before she was allegedly raped by a man free on bail, a court has heard.
Murdered as her ex-husband listened
IT WAS a crime so chilling that decades later, it still haunts one of Australia’s top detectives. Even now, the details are utterly horrific.
‘Make no mistake, people will die’
BOTTLES are being hurled at police and fireworks set off from moving cars as illegal hoon events become increasingly out of control.
‘We thought they were being shot’
WESTFIELD shoppers left terrified as crew of balaclava-clad bandits launch brazen smash-and-grab heist on Melbourne jewellery store.
Police in pre-dawn raids on bikie gang
TWENTY people have been arrested in raids at properties across Melbourne targeting the Comancheros bikie gang over shootings and arson attacks.
Cops say 100 youths ‘came to fight’
YOUNG men swarmed Melbourne’s CBD looking to start trouble as violence mared the family festival for the second year in a row.
Scammers hit Bendigo Bank ATM
PEOPLE using a Bendigo Bank ATM in Melbourne’s outer east have been targeted by scammers after a card skimmer was found on it.
Ristevski case makes no sense
AS THE family of Karen Ristevski prepares to lay her to rest on Monday, some burning questions remain about her unsolved murder.
Gunman ‘better pray they don’t get caught’
LATEST: THE husband of a mum-of-five shot in the chest last night in Glenroy has issued an emotional warning to the gunman responsible as she fights for life in hospital.
‘I’ve never been that scared’
A TERRIFIED woman claims her ex-boyfriend kidnapped and attacked her, holding her against her will for 12 hours.
Sons’ shock after mum shot in chest
A WOMAN is fighting for her life after she was shot in the chest in a Melbourne suburb. Her sons are still in shock.
THE mother of a man on the run after a fatal stabbing has begged him to come home and has told him she still “loves him”.
New CCTV of murder suspect emerges
NEW footage has emerged of the man who police believe slashed his brother to death in a brutal public-execution style killing.
Siege suspect hands himself in
AN armed man allegedly on the run after a drug raid in Melbourne’s west sparked a five-hour “siege” at an empty house has handed himself in, police have confirmed.
Police search for man after siege
A FIVE-HOUR siege in Melbourne has come to an end. Police gained access to a house after shots were fired this morning, but nobody was inside and police are on the hunt for this man.
Shots fired at police in Melbourne siege
BREAKING: A siege is under way in Melbourne’s northwest after police were fired at during a drug raid this morning.
Good samaritan stabbed in Melbourne
A MAN has been stabbed when he came to the aid of a woman being assaulted in Melbourne’s Southbank last night.
Borce Ristevski’s mum defends son
THE mother-in-law of slain Melbourne woman, Karen Ristevski, has spoken out, saying her son is a “good family man” and did not kill his wife.
Man ‘played dead’ to survive shooting
A MELBOURNE grandfather who was out cycling has survived being gunned down by a random shooter by playing dead.
Man ‘shot in the back by masked men’
A WITNESS who saw a drive-by shooting outside an Airport West gym says the victim was shot in the back by masked men who fled the scene in a black Mercedes.
‘They looked like they had a death wish’
A DRAMATIC police chase through Melbourne’s southeast suburbs allegedly saw innocent drivers rammed this morning.
Karen’s husband is ‘number one suspect’
BORCE Ristevski is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife Karen, the Melbourne man’s own lawyer has conceded.
Karen’s husband ‘number one suspect’
BORCE Ristevski is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife Karen, the Melbourne man’s own lawyer has conceded.
Karen Ristevski: The case so far
KAREN Ristevski is Australia’s gone girl, whose bizarre disappearance has remained a mystery for eight months. But will there soon be answers?
Street drug that can melt plastic
IT’S been described as “coma in a bottle” and can bring on psychosis and hallucinations. It also caused 40 overdoses this weekend.
How rival gangs orchestrated Melbourne chaos
POLICE say they knew for weeks of plans by the “United Nations” of gangs to cause havoc at Melbourne’s White Night event.
Teens ‘slash woman’ at train station
THREE teenagers are on the run after a stabbing incident at a Melbourne train station.
‘It seems a very long time to me’
IT could be at least another year before accused Bourke Street killer driver Dimitrious Gargasoulas faces trial over the rampage that claimed six lives.
New clue in lift slashing murder
NEW CCTV footage has emerged of a man that looks like a murder suspect being hunted by Victoria Police.
Youth gang terrorises festival crowds
FESTIVAL goers in Melbourne’s west were punched and kicked, and had phones, wallets and bags stolen, by a gang of 40 youths.
Mum told to stay quiet on toilet lurker
A DISTRAUGHT mum whose daughter was watched by a man fondling himself while she used a public toilet was told not to make a police statement because he was known to have an intellectual disability.
Cop punches man in violent arrest video
VIDEO of a Victorian police officer apparently punching a man during an arrest has been posted — and hastily removed — from social media.
Body recovered from Gippsland waterway
THE body of a man who went missing on yesterday night has been recovered from water in East Gippsland.
Reason mum didn’t recognise her own son
AS THE hunt for Jonathan Dick goes on across three states, his family are grappling with the fact he is wanted over the murder of his brother.
Brother ‘out of touch with reality’
A TROUBLED man being hunted across three states had become increasingly erratic before the brutal Westfield murder.
Family had ‘no idea’ murder suspect was their son
AS SHE wept through a press conference about her son’s murder, this distraught mum failed to realise the suspect on the big screen was her other son.
CCTV clue in brutal ‘sword’ murder
THE horrific murder of a man at a Westfield shopping centre car park was captured on CCTV, police have confirmed.
‘It’s a calculated, vicious attack’
POLICE do not know why David Dick was viciously slashed without warning as he got out of a car park lift at a major Melbourne shopping centre.
Bullets fly in Elsternwick alley
THE moment a bandit unleashed a spray of bullets in an alleyway in Melbourne’s southeast has been captured on CCTV, before he fled with another man.
‘The people at the party s*** themselves’
GUESTS at a wild party in an Airbnb rental were jumping fences and hiding in backyards to get away from a weapon-yielding gang that gatecrashed.
Police hunt killer after ‘horrific’ mall death
POLICE are hunting a killer after a man with “horrific” head injuries was found dead at a shopping centre carpark in Doncaster.
Body found at major shopping mall
BREAKING: A group doing personal training in a carpark in Melbourne has made a grisly discovery this morning.
Killer boyfriend’s chilling last act
A YOUNG mother left her abusive partner and was trying to move on with her life when he stabbed her to death. He then left her something bizarre.
‘You were a brave heart’
THE sixth victim of the Bourke St car rampage was a finance consultant at Deloitte whose death has shattered her family and friends.
‘Screaming’ after bodies found
NEIGHBOURS heard loud screaming coming from a north Melbourne home on Sunday. Police found a grim scene inside.
Brother: ‘No one could have predicted it’
THE brother of the man who allegedly killed five in the Melbourne rampage says “no one could have predicted” what would happen.
Inside our worst detention centre
GANGS from a youth detention centre have been accused of turning Melbourne into “Melbronx” and the city has been compared to Johannesburg.
‘Police officers are too scared to act’
A FORMER senior police officer says a culture of fear within the force is paralysing Australian cops, leading to “horrible and tragic” results.
Cops nab last of teen jail fugitives
LATEST: POLICE have arrested the last two teen fugitives on the run in Melbourne, 24 hours after a mass breakout which sparked a violent crime wave.
Strip club death hinges on post-mortem
STACEY Tierney’s body is finally home in Britain, but back in Australia, police are awaiting the post-mortem results her case hinges on.
Mum just learned ‘angel’ was dead
THALIA Hakin, the 10-year-old victim of the Melbourne car rampage, has been farewelled at an emotional funeral.
Leaked police email warned officers
UPDATED: A leaked police email reveals that senior police officers told staff not to rush to intercept stolen or suspect cars just months before the Bourke St massacre.
$1 million twist in mysterious cold case
THE mystery around these missing teenage lovers sounds like a movie. Some say she was pregnant and the pair ran away. Others say they were killed.
Dad ‘called me an Aussie sl*t’
EXCLUSIVE: AN old friend of the accused Melbourne killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas has revealed his father’s interaction with her.
Young victim ‘perfect little baby’
THE youngest person to die after Melbourne’s Bourke St rampage has been remembered as a “beautiful, loving, happy” boy.
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