Ben Roberts-Smith’s former mistress is the mystery witness whose secretly recorded conversation with a journalist has sparked an bid to re-open his defamation appeal against the Nine newspapers.
The legal giant on Tuesday referred a former employee to Victoria Police who they believe was behind a ‘premeditated and carefully planned’ email attack on the firm.
How a ‘hedonist’ sailor allegedly smuggled an accused terror mastermind out of the country on a boat – and recorded the whole voyage on video as the fugitive allegedly hid below decks.
When Sayet Erhan Akca climbed into the ring just before Christmas four years ago, chock full of bravado as always, he knew the law was closing in.
A Queensland man charged with helping alleged drug smuggler and caravan ‘terror plot’ mastermind Sayet Erhan Akca flee Australia is allegedly part of an organised crime group helping fugitives leave the country.
The Albanese government’s NACC has failed to deliver ‘anything useful’ since it began, say many of the leading figures who campaigned for it, with significant cases like the $2.4m payout to Brittany Higgins apparently buried.
A fresh trove of hateful slurs by alleged ‘caravan terror plot’ mastermind Sayet Erhan Akca have been unearthed, as police scramble to deny they helped increase vilification of Jews.
Australia’s peak Jewish body has lashed police and political leaders for downplaying hatred as a motive for violent attacks, after revelations the alleged Mr Big has extreme anti-Semitic views.
Sydney gym owner Sayit Erhan Akca, who is reportedly the man police allege was responsible for the ‘terror caravan’ plot posted comments praising Hitler and attacking Israel.
If the Jewish community was worried that opportunists would take advantage of the ‘fake terror’ label attached to the anti-Semitic plot revealed by police this week, they didn’t have long to wait.
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