Ellenbrook predator found guilty of sexual assault on sleeping girl
A man who broke into a home in Ellenbrook in 2021 and sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl has been found guilty after failing to argue he was too mentally impaired to be held accountable for his crime.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Louise Rennie
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High-profile witness list grows in Reynolds, Higgins defamation trial
Fresh dates have been set down for Linda Reynolds’ defamation trial against former staffer Brittany Higgins, as the names of more high-profile witnesses prepared to take the stand emerge.
- by Jesinta Burton and Louise Rennie
WA aged care worker admits to murdering elderly resident
Monica Stockdale, 70, was residing at the Baptistcare Bethel facility in Albany was she was strangled to death by Jacob Hoysted, 20, in November.
- by Louise Rennie
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Former Penrhos College teacher found guilty of sexual abuse
Jay Walsh, 75, has been found guilty of grooming five teenagers and having an intimate relationship with two of them.
- by Heather McNeill and Louise Rennie
Pier Street driver admits ploughing into CBD crowd, killing one
A Perth driver who ploughed his Range Rover into a crowd of people outside a CBD bar has pleaded guilty on the second day of his Supreme Court trial.
- by Heather McNeill and Louise Rennie
‘Skipper’ charged with manslaughter over Mandurah boat crash that killed his wife
The skipper allegedly behind the wheel when a boat crashed into a navigation marker in the Mandurah estuary, killing two women on board last month has been charged with two counts of manslaughter.
- by Heather McNeill and Louise Rennie
Boy who stabbed Bull Creek good Samaritan found guilty of murder
A teenager who fatally stabbed a man trying to retrieve a stolen bike was found guilty of murder on Tuesday after the jury deliberated for seven hours.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Louise Rennie
Homicide squad takes over investigation into attack on pregnant Perth mum
Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation into the “senseless and unprovoked” attack on Diane Miller, 30, who was hit by a lump of concrete allegedly thrown by a 17-year-old boy.
- by Holly Thompson and Louise Rennie
Perth man stabbed outside Malaysian nightclub while on holiday
Confronting vision shows the Australian tourist heavily outnumbered before being left on the floor in a pool of his own blood.
- by Heather McNeill and Louise Rennie
Prominent Perth doctor accused of assaulting wife
One of Perth’s most senior doctors has taken a leave of absence after losing his legal bid to keep his domestic violence charge a secret.
- by Louise Rennie
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