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A supergrass gave up secrets of Sydney’s underworld. Now he wants more than $1m from the crime commission
He risked his life to provide information on the city’s criminal milieu to the authorities. Now he’s in a protracted, top-secret court fight to get paid.
- Neil Mercer
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- Missing person
A Sydney chef checked out of a Surry Hills hotel. He was never seen again
Simon Knight left the hotel by bike, withdrew $500 from the bank then “disappeared off the face of the earth”.
- Josefine Ganko
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- Scams
Luxury hotels and a Lamborghini: School captain ‘conned mates out of millions’
Chao Wang claimed he was running a successful betting company. Police allege it was all a “heinous” scam to steal more than $2 million from investors.
- Perry Duffin
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- NSW
Service NSW and the dentist: Salim Mehajer’s first day of freedom
The disgraced businessman and former politician has walked out of a Sydney prison, and wasted no time running some errands.
- Sally Rawsthorne
Labor discusses removing Latham’s portrait from caucus room
Tanya Plibersek says she cried when Mark Latham was named Labor leader in 2003. Latham faces abuse claims by his ex-partner, which he denies.
- Jessica McSweeney
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- NSW Police misconduct
‘Questions of excessive force’: Major escalation in Hannah Thomas arrest probe
The former Greens candidate suffered a serious eye injury when police broke up a protest in Sydney’s south-west.
- Perry Duffin and Michael McGowan
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- Courts
Sydney couple’s 36 hours of hell after violent kidnapping from quiet suburban car park
While out for a haircut, the pair were abducted, driven to a remote shed and subjected to vicious attacks and demands for money. Then their parents were targeted.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Double Bay
The Comancheros, $20k cash and a dramatic Double Bay arrest
A 26-year-old man alleged to have directed a network selling drugs supplied by the outlaw motorcycle gang was arrested in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Sally Rawsthorne
Alleged childcare assault of toddler ‘captured on CCTV’
The two women are expected to appear in court next month over the alleged assault of a 17-month-old boy at a centre in western Sydney.
- Josefine Ganko and Penry Buckley
Two charged with murder of grandmother innocently caught in drive-by ‘beef’
Two men are in custody and a third man is being sought over the death of the western Sydney grandmother killed when a hail of gunfire tore through her home.
- Penry Buckley
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