Steve Butcher
Steve Butcher is a columnist.
Judge says 'brutal' attacks on frightened woman are part of wider social problem
In sentencing man for seven years for cowardly attacks — once with the branch of a tree — judge says domestic violence is a continuing problem for the community.
- by Steve Butcher
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Burning dump operator had been fined over too much fuel
A massive blaze on Friday at an industrial waste site outside Melbourne caught fire four times last year and was subject to a fire plan that identified a "huge amount" of fuel present.
- by Steve Butcher
Money launderers will be jailed, judge warns
A Melbourne judge has bluntly warned money-launderers that jail awaits them, in sentencing a dual Israeli-Australian citizen for "organised criminal behaviour" involving $106,000.
- by Steve Butcher
Redback tattoo led police to man they say menaced teenage girl on Frankston bus
Bail hearing hears 'ice freak' held a knife to girl's face and demanded 'everything you've got you little f.....g whore'.
- by Steve Butcher
Fraudster Tom Poursanidis fleeced almost $5m from naive, trusting builder
Judge, unswayed by guilty man's claims his parents would suffer if he was jailed, sends swindler to prison for preying on an older man's trust .
- by Steve Butcher
Young man's ice-driven 'downward spiral' lands him in jail after shooting
Reformed ice addict who threatened to "put one in" a man after phone call to his sister later shot the unarmed victim in the face with a sawn-off rifle.
- by Steve Butcher
'Larrikin' pleads guilty over pool game that ended in assault
Former Brighton Grammar student with alcohol-fuelled temper faces possible jail for seriously injuring an opponent in an eye with a cue during a pool game at a bayside pub.
- by Steve Butcher
Underworld gunman Gavin Preston stabbed moments after friendly greeting
A notorious underworld gunman who exchanged friendly greetings with five inmates in an exercise yard in Victoria's maximum security Barwon Prison was allegedly moments later viciously stabbed and slashed by them.
- by Steve Butcher
Former AFL player Justin Charles celebrates after judge allows appeal
Justin Charles acted like he'd kicked the winning goal. The former Tiger had just successfully appealed driving charges.
- by Steve Butcher
Masseur Ronald Van Dorp jailed for at least five years for sex assaults
Judge labels Ronald Van Dorp 'predatory and exploitative' for taking advantage of dozens of women.
- by Steve Butcher
Football star's wife loses licence for drink-driving
Wife of Hawthorn legend Robert DiPierdomenico was more than three times over the legal limit.
- by Steve Butcher
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