Courts
Man who attacked hero cop paroled after government abandons challenge
The drug addict who bashed Samantha Barlow has been released from jail after the NSW government was advised it could not win a challenge to his release.
- by Perry Duffin and Jessica McSweeney
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Stuart MacGill helped set up $330,000 cocaine deal in restaurant car park, court told
The former cricketer was allegedly unimpressed with his regular dealer’s cocaine quality and introduced him to his brother-in-law. But when an alleged deal went wrong, he was kidnapped.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
Officer who Tasered Clare Nowland tells court he felt action was ‘justified’
Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White has taken to the witness box at his trial for the manslaughter of the 95-year-old great-grandmother at a Cooma nursing home.
- by Sarah McPhee
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On the run in suburbia for nearly 30 years: Former fugitive ‘Dougie’ finally opens up
From farming pot to breaking out of jail to a life lived incognito for decades: the remarkable tale of an honours graduate turned handyman in hiding, Darko Desic.
- by Tim Elliott
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NSW
‘Overcome by fear’: Rapist jailed for violent attack on woman at The Star
A woman sexually assaulted by Byron Bay man Joel Nathan Fitzpatrick Burtt curled into a ball as he kicked her and dragged her across the ground, a judge said.
- by Sarah McPhee
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‘I went into labour as a widow’: Wife’s heartbreaking testimony about killing of paramedic
Steven Tougher’s wife sobbed as she recounted giving birth to the couple’s child in the weeks after his stabbing death outside a Sydney McDonald’s.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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NSW
CCTV reveals final moments before Clare Nowland was Tasered
Footage shows the 95-year-old shuffling around a Cooma aged care home as a nurse says she has “never seen anything like” the Taser being pointed at the great-grandmother.
- by Sarah McPhee
Beloved Elvis impersonator allegedly murdered after karaoke night
Bernie Peri, a talented singer and fixture of the Parkes Elvis Festival, was found dead in his home. Police allege his killer is a fellow musician.
- by Jessica McSweeney
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NSW
Family gasps as video shown of moment 95-year-old Tasered by cop
The jury was also shown photographs of Clare Nowland’s damaged pyjamas and the knives she held when she was confronted at the Cooma nursing home.
- by Sarah McPhee
Bombshell evidence about Bondi Westfield killer revealed at hearing
The first hearing into the stabbing rampage, in which Joel Cauchi killed six people before being shot dead by police, has been held in Sydney.
- by Perry Duffin
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NSW
Sexual abuse, drugs, guns, emails: Family implodes in court battle
A Sydney businessman is dragging his siblings through legal proceedings over a barrage of explosive messages.
- by Perry Duffin
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