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Both teachers have had their teaching licences disqualified.

WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students

Court documents have revealed that in both cases, the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.

  • Holly Thompson

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Andre and Colleen Rebelo.

‘Cold blooded’: Andre Rebelo killed his mother to prove himself to famous girlfriend, court told

The 28-year-old killed his mother in her Bicton home in May 2020. He will be sentenced on his birthday, with lawyers expecting a life term.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Police are investigating.

Cloverdale man faces court charged with setting man alight

Police were called to the suburb in the city’s east just after midnight when the two men – who were known to each other – became embroiled in an altercation.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Ricky-Lee Cound died by suicide in a prison cell three years ago.

Hakea inmates called guards, worried about their friend self-harming. Officers checked a water spill first

Ricky-Lee Cound was the first adult prisoner in WA to die in custody who had been formally diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Sally Greenham went missing in 1987.

Was this missing Geraldton woman murdered by her husband?

Sally Greenham has been on the missing persons list for nearly 40 years. But her friends, family and even the police who investigated her disappearance believe she was killed.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Accused North Perth stabber, Jaden Martinovich, 18.

How a fake drug deal ended with a Perth teenager’s murder

Jaden Martinovich thought he could pass off bath salts as drugs and make himself $250. Instead, he’s facing life in jail after fatally stabbing a 17-year-old boy in a car park.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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A court sketch of Callum Davies.

‘Her innocence was cruelly taken from her’: Perth man jailed for horror Ellenbrook sexual assault

The mother of a child choked and sexually assaulted as she slept in her bedroom has tearfully described how the crime shattered her family.

  • Heather McNeill
Rachel Van Oyen was released from prison two days after she was sentenced.

WA mum out on bail two days after being jailed over twins’ car crash deaths

Rachel Van Oyen, 32, was sentenced to two months behind bars on Wednesday over a crash that killed her seven-year-old daughters.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Six teenagers have been charged over a spate of homophobic attacks in Perth.

Fresh charges for six teens accused of spate of attacks on gay men in Perth

The group is accused of luring gay men to various locations across Perth via the app Grindr.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Rachel Van Oyen on her way into Northam Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Halls Head mum jailed over car crash that killed her twin daughters

Rachel Van Oyen only took her eyes off the road for a split second, the court was told, before her car hit a tree and rolled, killing her seven-year-old daughters.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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