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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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The alleged intended victim of the Darwin shooting

The luckiest man alive?

The original target of Darwin gunman Ben Hoffmann has been identified.

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Michael Sisois - one of the Darwin shooting victims. Supplied

Darwin victim’s brother speaks

The brother of one of Darwin’s shooting victims says his sibling knew his alleged killer.

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Darwin taxi driver Hassan Baydoun was a victim in last night's mass shooting. Picture: Facebook

Taxi driver’s dreams die

Taxi driver Hassan Baydoun had just returned from a month off workm on holiday when he was gunned down on his meal break.

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Residents’ tales of gunman

Humpty Doo residents have told of alleged close encounters with suspected Darwin gunman Ben Hoffmann.

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**NOT CONFIRMED - DO NOT USE UNLESS AMOS AIKMAN CONFIRMS ID**Facebook picture of Ben Hoffmann.

‘He shouldn’t have been out’

Suspected shooter Ben Hoffman needed mental health help and didn’t get it, former associate says.

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Ben Hoffman and the scene when he was arrested.

Shooting suspect identified

As suspect in Darwin’s worst mass shooting is named, identity of one of dead emerges.

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‘I saw evil’: surfer who escaped Milat

Chris Swan was 16 when he hitched a ride. More than 20 years later, a familiar face flashed on the news.

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FEDERAL agents raided 19 properties across the country - nine in NSW -as part of the massive global take-down of Phantom Secure, the deeplyencrypted communication service allowing Sydney bikies and gangstersto order murders, drug deals and kidnappings.The Daily Telegraph revealed on Monday the system organised criminalsall over the world used for years to evade police taps andsurveillance was being disabled after Vincent Ramos, who mastermindedthe technology and sold it through his copmany Phantom, was arrestedin the US.

Phones sold to Aussie gangs

The head of an encrypted phone company that sold devices used to facilitate murders and drug trafficking jailed in the US.

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Ivan Milat leaves hospital back to jail.

Milat nears final judgment

Ivan Milat is almost unrecognisable from the man who murdered seven young hitchhikers.

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Time for Milat to confess

Ivan Milat is dying of cancer, but will Australia’s most infamous serial killer finally reveal his other victims before he goes to his grave?

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