A Hobart magistrate has slammed conditions at Risdon Prison, saying serving a sentence there is akin to “putting a jug of milk in a cupboard, leaving it there for six months, then taking it out … and thinking it’s perfectly okay to drink”.
A child porn obsession fuelled by an underwear fetish has landed a married Tasmanian man with no prior convictions in jail.
A 36-year-old mother who stole chocolate bars from Woolworths then walked into a woman’s house and robbed her of $35 taxi money will spend at least six months behind bars.
A German national has pleaded not guilty to negligently causing the road death of a 59-year-old Huon Valley man last month at Dover.
A pregnant Tasmanian mother of two and family business owner says she woke in the middle of the night last week to an arson attack.
Two men have been taken into custody after four guns were recovered from a car in a Launceston evade incident.
Young staff members at a takeaway pizza restaurant in the state’s North have been left “traumatised” after two men armed with a knife and gun demanded money.
A young Launceston man has been jailed for kicking an injured man in the face and knocking him out cold after the victim had already been viciously beaten by three other assailants.
It has been revealed when the trial of a lawyer charged with perverting justice in relation to Susan Neill-Fraser’s murder appeal bid will likely to go ahead.
A young boy has been taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital after being thrown from a ski biscuit.
A gay man who worked as a military cook in Hobart during the 1970s, developing an alcohol problem to cope with social isolation, has lost a bid for veterans entitlements.
A Northern Tasmanian man has pleaded not guilty to the indecent assault of the daughter of a family friend.
A long-term alcoholic who killed a 71-year-old grandmother in an unprovoked daylight attack on a Hobart street has been granted parole, despite his history of reoffending.
A Hobart inquest into the death of 16-year-old Liam Mead has been told that teen suicide deaths are fully preventable, but the mental health system is “on its knees” due to underfunding.
Family members of a girl sexually abused by her stepfather wept in the Supreme Court in Launceston as the charges were read.
A man who slapped his partner when she broke his deceased mother’s display plate before threatening to put “$150 worth of bullets” into her dog, won’t get his firearms license reissued.
Michael Maple, a Hobart football star of the 1980s and 1990s, has learnt his fate after submitting bogus income protection claims while behind bars for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
UPDATED: A manhunt is underway following an armed robbery in northern Tasmania this morning.
Police are investigating after a motorcycle rider drove at speed through the cordoned-off scene of a fatal crash, putting first responders in “extreme danger”.
The police association expressed its sympathy to those involved in the fatal shooting at Brighton saying officers used their “training, experience and executed their duties to the best of their ability”.
In the past 10 years Tasmania Police have fatally shot three people. We look examine the historic cases.
Former Hobart school teacher and convicted paedophile, Darell George Harington, has been found guilty of further historic child sex offending.
A magistrate has told two young Launceston men they were “really stupid” for carrying dangerous items with them late at night on a public road.
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