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The girl’s parents outside court last month.

Floreat parents who starved daughter claim prison sentence a ‘miscarriage of justice’

The couple who were jailed last month after a jury found them guilty of infantalizing their teenage daughter and starving her to the point of malnutrition are appealing their sentence.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Perth suburbs crime statistics main image, police generic, WA Police. Picture: WAtoday

Which Perth suburb had the most crime in 2024?

WAtoday has examined crime statistics for 2024 and compiled a per capita snapshot of which suburbs suffered the most crime last year, revealing some surprises.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Janet Dweh was bludgeoned to death in her Dayton home.

Perth man who murdered pregnant nurse jailed for life

Hassan Jabbie denied brutally murdering Janet Dweh inside her Dayton home, but a jury found him guilty due to overwhelming evidence.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Cassius Turvey died after he was bahed in Middle Swan in October 2022.

Cassius Turvey’s final day detailed in court

The trial of four people accused of murdering Perth teenager Cassius Turvey has begun hearing evidence of the day he was fatally attacked with a trolley pole in October 2022.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Dalkeith crash, Dr Rhys Bellinge, Elizabeth Pearce. Picture: Supplied

Perth obstetrician refused bail on manslaughter charges over Dalkeith crash

Rhys Bellinge, 45, is accused of crashing his Jaguar into an Uber in Dalkeith around 10pm on Sunday, killing Elizabeth Pearce and critically injuring her driver.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Bozena Knapinski is accused of poisoning her husband.

Perth woman accused of poisoning was over-worked, controlled by husband, court told

Bozena Knapinski is accused of endangering her now ex-husband by secretly pouring toxic doses of selenium into his water bottles when he was not looking.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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Janet Dweh was allegedly murdered by Hassan Jabbie inside her Dayton home.

Perth man who murdered pregnant lover was exposed to horrors as a child refugee, court told

Hassan Jabbie was found guilty by a jury of killing Janet Dweh, whose body was found in her Dayton home in October 2021.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
The man allegedly shone a laser on the police helicopter four times.

Man allegedly blinds pilots landing at Perth Airport with laser, then turns it on police chopper

A man found in Rivervale has been charged after commercial plane and police helicopter pilots were blinded by a laser on January 20.

  • Holly Thompson
Claudia Maria Federico was sentenced over the stabbing death of her partner.

Little girl’s evidence helped convict mum of manslaughter, judge says

Claudia Federico denied she brought a knife to a heated argument with her partner Joe Nicoli in 2023, claiming instead it all occurred by accident while she was in the middle of cutting carrots. But her little girl had watched the whole thing unfold.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Bozena Knapinski.

Perth woman accused of poisoning husband was trying to make him feel better, court told

Bozena Knapinski’s husband of 40 years filmed her allegedly putting toxic levels of selenium into his drink bottles on five occasions before he took the evidence to police.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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