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Ellenbrook Secondary College.

Ellenbrook school locked down after possible stabbing

Police and paramedics are attending an unfolding incident at Ellenbrook Secondary College.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt, Hamish Hastie and Hannah Murphy

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Cleveland Dodd died by suicide in his cell at Unit 18, a youth detention wing of Casuarina Prison in Perth.

A coroner wants Unit 18 shut ‘urgently’. Roger Cook says it’s ‘the best solution we have at the moment’

Coroner Philip Urquhart said the “harrowing” evidence he heard about Cleveland Dodd’s final days at Unit 18 was some of the “saddest I have presided over”.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Mother-of-four Drew Douglas was found stabbed to death inside her home in Sydney’s west in August 2023.

‘I will never forgive you’: Father delivers emotional message to daughter’s killer

Drew Douglas was killed by her partner of 14 years because she was about to leave him, a judge has heard. Now her family has faced her murderer in court.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
Theo Briggs, a sex offender under “supervision” who went on a two-day crime spree in 2024.

Sex offender under ‘supervision’ in community attacked woman during violent crime spree

The man is among sex offenders who have committed violent crimes while on supervision orders but whose cases have been hidden from the public and protected by legislation.

  • Chris Vedelago and Marta Pascual Juanola
Luke Sekkouah has pleaded guilty to the murder of Erica Hay at her Warnbro home. Pictures: Supplied

The words of a killer: Harrowing details of Warnbro mother’s death aired in court

The house in Warnbro was a place of neglect, stained by meth use. It was in this spiralling chaos that Luke Sekkouah stabbed Erica Hay to death and set her body on fire.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Giuffre in the Nteflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.

Virginia Giuffre’s family asks: ‘Where are her missing millions?’

Family members of the late sex abuse survivor have raised questions over what they say is a “significant” amount of money missing from her estate.

  • Connor Stringer and Victoria Ward
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William Swale outside court in 2024.

Diabetic driver in bid to dodge Daylesford crash inquest

The man who ploughed into and killed five people outside a pub in Daylesford will object to giving evidence after being called as a witness at an inquest.

  • Emily Woods
NSW DPP Sally Dowling, SC, giving evidence to the upper house inquiry on Friday.

‘Personal grievance’: NSW’s top prosecutor at war with District Court judge

The leak of a young Indigenous person’s name and case details to a radio program is being examined by an upper house inquiry.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
The loot was a limited-edition, Fabergé egg pendant inspired by the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.

Man allegedly swallows jewelled octopus. Police fish it out

Investigators say they recovered the James Bond-inspired Faberge pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of ingesting it.

  • Charlotte Graham-McLay
The case was heard at the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne.

Son of high-profile man found guilty of two counts of rape

A doctored Uber receipt helped convict the young man of raping a woman in his family home.

  • Erin Pearson

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