Crime
Erin Patterson isn’t a cold-blooded killer, her lawyer says – she was isolated and worried
Defence barrister Colin Mandy, SC, painted a picture of his client as a devoted mother of two and person of good character who may have told lies but wasn’t a murderer.
- Erin Pearson
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Sydney plumber among three Australians charged with murder over Bali villa ambush
Darcy Francesco Jenson was arrested at a Jakarta airport while trying to flee the country, authorities said, while two other men were detained overseas with the help of Interpol.
- Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
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- Melbourne gangland
Australian arrested in Bali over fatal shooting ambush at villa
Indonesian police say they have detained two men over the shooting that left Zivan Radmanovic dead and underworld-linked Sanar Ghanim seriously injured.
- Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
‘Who would kill these kind people?’: Defence says lack of motive shows mushroom deaths were accidental
After an eight-week trial, Erin Patterson’s legal team found something to agree with prosecutors on – that her lunch guests were lovely people.
- Erin Pearson
Mushroom cook sat on her hands and peddled fiction while her family members died, court told
Prosecutors have begun their closing address to the jury by laying out the four “calculated deceptions” they say show Erin Patterson’s guilt.
- Erin Pearson
Freed immigration detainee accused of vicious Footscray mall assault
Friday Yokoju was being electronically monitored via an ankle bracelet as a condition of his release when he allegedly attacked a 62-year-old, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.
- Roy Ward, Alexander Darling and Natassia Chrysanthos
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- Organised crime
‘Zombie killers’ and the ‘lost boys’ of Melbourne’s warring youth gangs
Youth crime waves aren’t new, but experts warn street violence has been gamified. And it’s escalating, with more teens from middle-class backgrounds involved.
- Sherryn Groch
A garden tour, small talk and an illness confession. The mushroom lunch according to Erin Patterson
The accused mushroom cook killer says the deaths of her guests were a terrible accident and from beginning to end police have misconstrued events that led to their deaths.
- Erin Pearson
Lawyer loses battle to keep secret her guilty plea to attempting to pervert justice
A Melbourne solicitor has admitted arranging for a person to lie to police about their involvement in a matter where a vehicle drove erratically and away from police.
- Melissa Cunningham
‘He’s full dead, bro’: Final moments of stabbed doctor aired in court
A court heard details of the 33-year-old doctor’s alleged murder and the two home invasions that preceded his death.
- Melissa Cunningham
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