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Guns
Man shot himself inside Perth emergency department after partner pronounced dead
A witness has claimed the man pulled out a homemade gun after his partner was pronounced dead by hospital staff.
- by Holly Thompson and Amber Wilkinson
Latest
Broome man had four break-ins before he cable-tied trespassing kids
Mat Radelic, 45, denies he committed the offence of assault after he cable-tied three young Indigenous children he found swimming in his backyard pool in March.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
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Courts
Alleged Nollamara hit-and-run driver fronts court
The 65-year-old is alleged to have hit a man near the intersection of Ravenswood Drive and Hillsborough Drive on Sunday, leaving him for dead.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
Mother jailed after she injected disabled daughter with near-fatal dose of insulin
A 42-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after a jury found her guilty of endangering the life of her disabled daughter, by injecting her with a near-fatal dose of insulin as a cry for help.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
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Tragedy
Floreat mother and daughter murdered by Mark Bombara
Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her youngest daughter Gretl, 18, were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.
- by Holly Thompson, Heather McNeill, Michael Stamp and Amber Wilkinson
‘Sweetest soul’: Teen killed in Gooseberry Hill crash remembered
Dylan Soklich,16, was a passenger in the back of a car that hit a tree and rolled on a Perth Hills road on Wednesday night.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
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Crime
Man appears in court charged with murdering his mother in Yangebup
Joan Drane’s worried neighbours called authorities after seeing a horrific crime scene that stretched to the outside of her Sandpiper Loop home.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
WA Police officer dies in tragic accident at own engagement party
A WA Police officer has died after what should have been a day of celebration took a tragic turn.
- by Amber Wilkinson
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/amber-wilkinson-p5379i