WA courts
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Police
Cleo Smith’s kidnapper loses appeal for shorter jail sentence
Cleo Smith’s kidnapping by the 37-year-old sparked one of the biggest police searches in Australian history and made headlines worldwide.
- by Aaron Bunch
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Police hunt alleged Mandurah road rage attackers after man and woman run over
The pair were involved in a minor traffic crash that escalated and ended when they were allegedly run over by the driver of the other car.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
‘You’re an idiot’: Judge lashes bikie’s sister in sending her to jail
The sister of an exiled Comanchero bikie was yesterday sent to prison for 15 months for her part in laundering in almost a million dollars of dirty cash.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
WA foster mother knocked out, then burnt, seven-year-old who refused to do dishes
The horrifying story of a child no-one wanted – and what he suffered at the hands of those who took him in.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Perth
Victims warned WA’s worst serial sex predator could be released
Victims of WA’s worst serial sex predator Dennis John McKenna are reeling after being told the child abuser could be released from prison in two months.
- by Gary Adshead
Repeat domestic violence offender jailed for life over Nollamara stabbing
Christopher Dimer tried to convince a jury a knife that was holding up a curtain had fallen and impaled his partner of four years, killing her.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Crime
Perth teens had crow bars, pepper spray in homophobic bashings
The boys will appear before Perth Children’s Court on Thursday charged over the assault of two men in their 30s that had been lured via an online app.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Teenage Shenton College student sentenced over box-cutter rampage
The 13-year-old boy pleaded guilty to threatening fellow students and staff with a box cutter at the prestigious public school in Perth’s western suburbs.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Dog dies, Osborne Park vet suspended after prescription error cover-up
When Lucy’s owners took her to the vet with a sore leg, they didn’t expect her to die nine days later – or for the vet to try to cover up the error that caused it.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Courts
Elderly WA couple’s five-year fight ends in eviction from their home
Beryl and Ray Taylor poured their life savings into a lease-for-life scheme near Mandurah. Now they are about to be homeless.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Broome man had four break-ins before he cable-tied trespassing kids
Mat Radelic, 45, denies he committed the offence of assault after he cable-tied three young Indigenous children he found swimming in his backyard pool in March.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
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