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Dr Ashley Gordon was killed in Doncaster in a confrontation following an aggravated burglary.

‘He’s full dead, bro’: Final moments of stabbed doctor aired in court

A court heard details of the 33-year-old doctor’s alleged murder and the two home invasions that preceded his death.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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Photographer and performer Katie Tangey, who was killed in the blaze.

Home searched as part of investigation into firebombing death of Katie Tangey

Police seized mobile phones from a Dandenong home after an anonymous tip-off relating to the death of an innocent woman wrongly targeted in a tobacco war firebombing in Truganina earlier this year.

  • Alexander Darling
Crown prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers, SC, cuts a solemn figure in the heavy fog and freezing temperatures as she arrives at court early on Wednesday.

As lunch guests sickened, mushroom cook fed her children leftovers, she maintains

Erin Patterson said she fed the beef Wellington leftovers to her two children for dinner on the day of the lunch, and that she didn’t believe there was any “real risk” to their safety.

  • Erin Pearson
Erin Patterson.

‘Gordon Ramsay, eat your heart out’: Extra kilo of mushrooms at issue

Much of Day 30 of the trial of Erin Patterson was devoted to mushrooms, including the origin of those used in her home-cooked meal.

  • Tony Wright
Erin Patterson.

The deadpan defendant denies mushroom witnesses’ accounts

Erin Patterson’s rejections were of the greatest economy. Accused of three murders by mushroom, she calmly disagreed with earlier witnesses.

  • Tony Wright
A child who had a murder charge withdrawn over the stabbing death of woman has voiced frustration over pace of her release back into the community and is pushing for more liberties while being kept in secure accommodation, including a television and being able to the gym.

Girl ‘frustrated’ with curfew, missing TV, lack of freedom after murder charge dropped

A child living in secure accommodation says she is frustrated at the pace of her release back into the community.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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The case was heard at the County Court, sitting at Bairnsdale.

‘I want to show you something’: Former teacher jailed over historical child sex abuse

A paedophile who admitted to abusing five girls at a regional Victorian primary school more than 30 years ago has been jailed for more than six years.

  • Caroline Schelle
Police are searching for a man who allegedly crashed a ute into a property in Wantirna South then allegedly stole the neighbour’s car at gunpoint.

Armed man on the run after car crash, robbery in Wantirna South

Police are searching for a man who crashed a car into a woman’s home and stole a neighbour’s car, wielding what they fear was a firearm.

  • Roy Ward
Police patrol Northland shopping centre in Preston the day after a wild machete brawl forced bystanders to intervene.

‘Parasites’: How organised crime is feeding off the youth gang crisis

Gangland bosses are recruiting disaffected youths for “freelance” crime, and rewriting the rules of the underworld.

  • Sherryn Groch
A still from CCTV footage of a youth carrying a machete at Caroline Springs Square shopping centre on Friday night.

Teens armed with machetes trigger shopping centre lockdown

Witnesses told police as many as six males were arguing and brandishing machetes in front of frightened shoppers in Melbourne’s western suburbs on Friday evening.

  • Alexander Darling

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