Poisoned pina coladas are suspected to have struck down seven people including four Australians at a five-star Fiji resort, with witnesses reporting horror stories of victims bleeding from the ears and foaming at the mouth.
The 52-year-old man from Morningside in Brisbane’s south has been charged under new hate crime laws.
New details of the fatal incident can be revealed after Rohan Dennis fronted court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a downgraded charge that still carries a lengthy prison sentence.
A plot to import 2.3 tonnes of cocaine into Australia came hopelessly unstuck, with two of the smugglers’ boats breaking down before the crime syndicate eventually had to be towed to shore by police who had been monitoring them the entire time.
Daycare predator Ashley Paul Griffith dodged scrutiny for almost two decades despite multiple reports from co-workers and his little victims that should have uncovered his depraved behaviour.
More than a dozen parents and now-adult victims have told of the moment they discovered childhoods had been shattered by Australia’s worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith.
A former notorious conwoman who has become one of the nation’s most active fundraisers will have to show she has properly accounted for donations.
Queensland’s Attorney-General is investigating if a notorious former conwoman has been fundraising legally, amid new revelations she appears to have copied an award-winning charity’s appeal for donations.
A chameleon with a collection of wigs and a penchant for the high life, Jody Harris used stolen credit cards and driver’s licences to impersonate her victims, brazenly walking into banks to drain their accounts. Then she became one of the nation’s most active fundraisers for charitable causes.
Relatives of Bronwyn Winfield are zeroing in on a house in suburban Sydney as a possible location of her remains as council records show concrete was poured there at the time she vanished.
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