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David MurrayNational Crime Correspondent

David Murray is The Australian’s National Crime Correspondent. He was previously Crime Editor at The Courier-Mail and prior to that was News Corp’s London-based Europe Correspondent. He is behind investigative podcasts The Lighthouse and Searching for Rachel Antonio and is the author of The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay.

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22/2/2018: Saint StephenÕs College Principal Jamie Dorrington outside the school gates today, Upper Coomera, Gold Coast. Seven teenagers were hospitalised, four in a critical condition, after a mass drug overdose at the prestigious Gold Coast school yesterday. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

School boys’ ‘experiment’ with drug

Seven students hospitalised after a mass overdose were ‘boundary pushing’ in a dangerous experiment, police say.

David Murray and Sarah Elks

UpdatedThe Nation

Signage outside Saint Stephen's College at Upper Coomera, Gold Coast, Thursday, February 22, 2018. Six boys were taken to Gold Coast University hospital yesterday after they were found to be unwell after taking an unknown substance. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

‘Powdered’ drug behind overdose

Police are calling for students at an elite Gold Coast school to come forward as their peers remain in critical condition after a mass overdose.

David Murray

The Nation

Hospital staff rushing a patient off to theatre in urgency Emergency ward. Picture: istock

Mass overdose hospitalises teens

Seven students hospitalised in a mass drug overdose are suspected of sourcing a Russian anti-anxiety drug online.

Mark Schliebs and David Murray

The Nation

THREE people have been found dead inside the charred wreckage of a suspicious house fire in Canberra. ACT Police Forensics at the scene. Picture Gary Ramage

Neighbours await fatal fire answers

Shocked residents are waiting for answers after three people were found dead in a burnt-out Canberra house.

David Murray

State Politics

Geologist slams Dep of Nat Resources

A geologist has called on the Queensland government to enforce mining exploration rights.

David Murray

The Nation

An Australian Federal Police-led multi-agency investigation has resulted in the arrest of three men and the seizure of 313 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, marking the largest haul of the drug destined for South Australia. ABF officers intercepted a sea-cargo consignment containing two crane jibs, destined for Adelaide. Examination revealed 313 clip seal bags containing a white crystalline substance concealed inside the metal base attached to one of the jib arms

Drug crooks ‘getting smarter’

ABF officers have intercepted a sea cargo consignment bound for Adelaide with 313kg of crystal methamphetamine aboard.

David Murray

State Politics

Timothy Pullen with his mum Leanne Pullen.Photo Contributed

No body, so no parole for inmate

Queensland’s new ‘no body, no parole’ laws have been used to keep an inmate behind bars for the first time.

David Murray

News

Caleb Maraku, 19, leaves court after being sentenced for a brutal one punch attack in Surfers Paradise.

Coward puncher sent back to NZ

A New Zealander responsible for a coward punch on the Gold Coast will be deported.

David Murray

News

Mackay man Timothy Pullen was killed in 2012 over a $7000 drug debt. His heartbroken family accepted a manslaughter plea in exchange for the killers taking police to where they left his body. But Timothy's body was not there and they are still desperate to find him. Images from Facebook

Parole denied over missing body

Parole has been denied to one of the men convicted over the killing of Timothy Pullen because his body has not been found.

David Murray

The Nation

Townsville generic criminal with knife weapon threatening to stab

Police shoot teen with knife

Police responding to a domestic disturbance shot a 16-year-old boy who came at them with a knife.

David Murray

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