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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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18/09/2002 NEWS: District Supreme court complex. Scales of justice statue. Legal.

Violent video not evidence

Video of a violent attack during Schoolies Week was not shown in court.

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Chasing magistrate Joan White who is presiding over hoon driver Zayne Dalton case at Beenleigh Courts. Pic Annette Dew

Magistrate spares thug

A magistrate who declined to record a conviction against a Gold Coast street thug has a history of imposing ‘soft’ sentences.

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Louis James Mahony charged with the alleged 2009 murder of Lainie Coldwell - Photo Supplied Channel 9

Killer’s brother-in-law in legal row

A battle is unfolding over murdered Queensland woman Lainie Coldwell’s estate.

Slain Queensland man Timothy Pullen's parents Gary and Leanne Pullen leave the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Brisbane, Friday, January 12, 2018. Stephen Renwick is serving a five-year jail sentence for disposing of Mr Pullen's corpse near Collinsville, west of Airlie Beach, after he was killed in April 2012. Renwick is now making a bid to be released from prison at the state's first public parole hearing since the introduction of the No Body, No Parole laws. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

Parents dispute burnt body claim

The parents of Timothy Pullen have raised doubts about a new claim his body was incinerated.

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SUANDAY MAIL ONLY copy picture of Lainie and Louis ....homicide investigation into Louis Mahony, convicted of the murder of Lainie Coldwell....copy pictures of the crime scene The ladder and a utility at the Charleville house where Mahony claimed his partner of 18 years had fallen while taking down lights on August 23, 2009. Mahony was arrested by the Cold Case team in 2015. Pic Jamie Hanson

Lainie, the ladder and the lies

From the start, Lainie Coldwell’s death didn’t look right. ‘If you want to get away with murder,’ one cop tells us, ‘go to western Queensland.’

National Affairs

11/1/2018: Tayla Pearson, lost her brother Kodi to bullying in 2016, at their home in Munruben, south of Brisbane. It has been a horrible time since then, and Kodi's death has only revealed to them how widespread youth suicide really is. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Bullying must stop: PM

Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to take ‘every step’ to combat bullying after the death of Amy ‘Dolly’ Everett.

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Che Quaedvlieg leaves the Brisbane Magistrates Court, in Brisbane, Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Mr Quaedvlieg, the son of stood-down Australian Border Force head Roman Quaedvlieg, was fined $500 after being caught with a small bag of ecstasy. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

ABF boss lost grandson to SIDS

Australian Border Force boss Roman Quaedvlieg’s son has told a court of the tragic death of his own child from SIDS.

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Concrete blocks that have been installed in the Queen St Mall to stop cars and trucks in the event of terror, in Brisbane City, on Friday December 1st 2017. AAP Image/Steve Pohlner

Doubts aired on terror barriers

Police have shown community representatives a YouTube video of a truck crashing through concrete blocks.

National Affairs

Che Quaedvlieg leaves the Brisbane Magistrates Court, in Brisbane, Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Mr Quaedvlieg, the son of stood-down Australian Border Force head Roman Quaedvlieg, was fined $500 after being caught with a small bag of ecstasy. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

ABF boss’ son pleads guilty

Roman Quaedvlieg’s son has pleaded guilty to drug possession, telling a Brisbane court of a horror year in which he lost a child to SIDS.

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9/1/2018Duty manager Victoria Simpkins at the Elephant Hotel in Fortitude Valley. photo: Glenn Hunt/The Australian

Clubs asked to stock terror kit

Venues in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley have been asked to prepare ‘terror kits’ to aid police in the event of an attack.

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