The Editorial Team

Blake Antrobus covers Queensland courts and crime for NCA NewsWire. He began his career in journalism in 2015, migrating from Sydney’s northern beaches to southwest Queensland. He has covered politics, crime, education and general news for newspapers across the state.

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QLD Courts & Law

Girum Gebayaw Mekonnen was let off without a conviction recorded due to his young age and relatively clean history.

‘Planned’: Chilling detail in fatal park brawl

A judge has delivered a verdict in the case of 12 men on trial for the murder of a teenager in a “planned” and bloody public park brawl.

QLD Courts & Law

A “menace” who tried to murder a complete stranger - stabbing him in the neck as he slept in a popular tourist strip mall and leaving him to cover and die - has suffered a massive court blow in his fight to overturn the “unreasonable” verdict.

Man’s horrifying act in popular mall

A ‘menace’ serving a hefty jail term for stabbing a complete stranger in a popular tourist mall has suffered a huge blow in his bid to overturn the ‘unreasonable’ verdict.

VIC Crime

Lino Atem was killed during a fight between two groups of men in Wyndham Vale, Melbourne. Picture: Supplied

Breakthrough in horror fatal ‘ambush’

Police have made a breakthrough in their probe of a fatal “ambush” attack that left a 24-year-old man dead.

UPDATEDEnvironment

CURRUMBIN, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MARCH 11, 2025: Beach erosion at Currumbin Beach, Queensland in the aftermath of TC Alfred.Picture: NewsWire / Glenn Campbell

Woman feared missing in floodwaters

A search is underway after a woman was reported entering floodwaters, as the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues across southeast Queensland.

UPDATEDQLD Courts & Law

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 17, 2024: Former parliamentary staffer Bruce Lehrmann arrives to Toowoomba Magistrates Court.Picture: NewsWire / John Gass

‘Rain hell’: Lehrmann’s shock rape case move

Bruce Lehrmann has made a shock move ahead of a pending criminal trial in Toowoomba, where he is set to defend two counts of rape.

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‘Pretty gnarly’: Sharks circle after Alfred

Wild footage has captured sharks circling the waterways of the Gold Coast in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

QLD Courts & Law

Child-killing cult leader’s sickening outburst

Explosive footage captured a killer cult leader’s defiant outburst to police after the fringe Christian sect fatally withdrew an 8yo girl’s insulin for God to “heal” her.

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