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Perry Duffin is a crime reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Retired priest caught ‘grooming 14-year-old boy online’ in Sydney sting

Retired priest caught ‘grooming 14-year-old boy online’ in Sydney sting

The 77-year-old allegedly made plans to meet the teenager but was arrested by undercover police.

  • by Perry Duffin

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Cruelty charges laid after almost 100 kangaroos shot

Cruelty charges laid after almost 100 kangaroos shot

A man has been charged after the latest in a string of horrific animal cruelty cases in NSW.

  • by Perry Duffin
Man murdered, dumped in Botany was in ‘sophisticated’ drug operation
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Man murdered, dumped in Botany was in ‘sophisticated’ drug operation

Police, who arrested Rex Chen in a drug sting operation two years ago, are hunting foreign hitmen over the murders of Chen and his wife.

  • by Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
More sexual assault charges for alleged Molly Ticehurst killer

More sexual assault charges for alleged Molly Ticehurst killer

Daniel Billings was out on bail for allegedly sexually assaulting and stalking his former girlfriend when he allegedly murdered her.

  • by Sally Rawsthorne and Perry Duffin
Man ‘targeted Jewish people’ in Sydney’s east, police say
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Man ‘targeted Jewish people’ in Sydney’s east, police say

A man accused of an anti-Israel vandalism spree researched the location of a Jewish hospital before the attack, police say.

  • by Perry Duffin
Coles worker allegedly sexually assaulted teen at Bondi Westfield
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Coles worker allegedly sexually assaulted teen at Bondi Westfield

The accused, who is on a student visa, allegedly attacked a 15-year-old girl in full view of CCTV cameras at the busy shopping mall.

  • by Perry Duffin
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Courts watered down AVO against husband before he ‘speared wife to death’
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Courts watered down AVO against husband before he ‘speared wife to death’

Details have emerged about a Sydney mother of five’s final months before she was allegedly killed by her abusive husband.

  • by Perry Duffin
Man with ‘terror links’ arrested over killing of mother of five
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Man with ‘terror links’ arrested over killing of mother of five

Talaat Hawatt was taken into custody after his wife was found dead inside a unit in Sydney’s south-west.

  • by Perry Duffin
‘Pedo hunts’: Gay-bashing teen gangs in wave of Sydney attacks
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‘Pedo hunts’: Gay-bashing teen gangs in wave of Sydney attacks

The teenagers are luring men to public parks before bashing, robbing and filming their victims for social media in a shocking revival of Sydney’s gay hate era.

  • by Perry Duffin
‘Someone’s mother, daughter, sister, friend’: Woman’s body discovered near Sydney Airport
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‘Someone’s mother, daughter, sister, friend’: Woman’s body discovered near Sydney Airport

Police are now working to identify the woman whose badly decomposed body was found covered in plastic in bushland off Foreshore Drive in Botany.

  • by Penry Buckley, Jessica McSweeney and Perry Duffin
Christmas parties targeted in Sydney dial-a-dealer cocaine blitz
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Christmas parties targeted in Sydney dial-a-dealer cocaine blitz

Buyers of illicit drugs this “silly season” are in police sights after more than 100 people were charged in a major operation across Sydney.

  • by Jessica McSweeney and Perry Duffin

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