Man, 29, extradited from Victoria on Thursday after police alleged he threatened to release photos of assault
A man alleged to have drugged and kidnapped a woman before photographing himself sexually assaulting her and attempting to extort a $300,000 payment for the images has been extradited from Victoria to New South Wales.
Yanyu Mu, 29, was arrested at Oakleigh East in Melbourne’s south-east on Thursday, before being extradited to Sydney.
Continue reading...Former Jetstar pilot describes struggle that led to deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, after pleading not guilty to murder
A former Jetstar pilot accused of killing two elderly campers in the Victorian high country has apologised to their families for the “suffering that I caused” and testified that he did not murder them.
Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, has taken the stand in the Victorian supreme court on Thursday, after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, at a remote camping site in the Wonnangatta Valley in March 2020.
Continue reading...Jury begins deliberations over whether Stein, 33, murdered his former partner’s daughter. He has pleaded not guilty
A jury has begun deliberations over the alleged murder of Charlise Mutten after being told the issue in the case is not how the schoolgirl died but who pulled the trigger.
Charlise’s body was found near the Colo River, north-west of Sydney, on 18 January 2022 with gunshot wounds to her face and lower back.
Continue reading...Guy Meogrossi, 30, faced court on charges of producing child abuse material and filming a person’s private parts without their consent
A teacher has been charged with producing child abuse material after he allegedly used his phone to make recordings of students at a school in Sydney’s south west.
Police were called to the school on Monday afternoon after reports of an incident that involved teacher using his phone to make recordings of students.
Continue reading...Former pilot, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay, told police the deaths were the result of an accident
A former airline pilot accused of murdering two elderly campers told police he went through a “decision making pathway” drawn from his experience in the cockpit when considering how to cover up their deaths.
Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay at a remote camping site in Victoria’s alpine region in March 2020.
Continue reading...Ms Dhu died two days after being locked up at police station after arrest for unpaid fines of $3,622
Western Australia’s police chief has formally apologised to the family and community of a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in custody a decade ago.
Yamatji woman Ms Dhu, whose first name has not been used for cultural reasons, died two days after being locked up at South Hedland police station on 4 August 2014.
Continue reading...Forensic assessments being carried out on ‘items of interest’ found in search for missing woman
Victoria police have ended their search of farmland south of Ballarat amid forensic testing of “items of interest”, after finding a phone at a dam during their investigation into missing woman Samantha Murphy.
Murphy, 51, was last seen nearly four months ago, when she left her Ballarat East home to go for a run on 4 February.
Continue reading...Michael Murphy denies deliberately misleading public about knowledge of awards but regrets not investigating earlier, inquest hears
WARNING: This article contains offensive images and content
The Northern Territory’s top police officer has agreed he was “gaslighting” Aboriginal people when he said he had not seen racism in the force, and admitted he knew about racist award certificates months before their existence was made public.
The police commissioner, Michael Murphy, told the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker on Wednesday that he regretted not investigating the “coon of the year” certificates awarded within the force’s Territory Response Group or reporting them to the NT police professional standards command when he learned about them in August 2023.
Continue reading...Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research study finds no legal action was taken in about 85% of reported sexual assault incidents
Only 8% of contemporary child sexual assault incidents reported to New South Wales police end in a conviction, according to a Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research report released on Tuesday.
The number is lower for reported historic sexual assault incidents (7%) and lower again for reported adult sexual assault incidents (6%).
Continue reading...Officers urge woman to go to hospital to receive care after placenta and umbilical cord found next to Cooks River at Earlwood
Police have deployed divers and a blood detection dog in the search for a mother and her newborn baby after finding evidence she may have given birth by a Sydney riverbank.
A resident walking his dog found what police believe to be a placenta and umbilical cord next to the Cooks River at Earlwood in the city’s south-west on Monday afternoon. Police said tests on the organs had revealed them to be human.
Continue reading...Former Jetstar pilot has pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay in 2020
The cause of death for Russell Hill and Carol Clay was unable to be determined as their remains were found “obliterated” in Victoria’s alpine region, a forensic pathologist has told a double murder trial.
Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Hill and Clay at a remote camping site in the Wonnangatta Valley in March 2020. The supreme court trial entered its third week on Monday.
Continue reading...Queensland police service says the incident is being assessed by the ethical standards command
A Queensland police officer has shared a sexist post on social media weeks after receiving “formal guidance” for engaging with lewd and offensive Facebook content.
Officer Brad Rix shared a public Instagram photo ahead of Mother’s Day on 12 May which read, “gentlemen don’t forget to remind the special lady in your life to make sure she gets all her housework and chores done on Saturday so she can enjoy mother’s day on Sunday”.
Continue reading...Victoria police confirm man, 32, was not wounded when shots fired in Thomastown on Friday morning
A former Mongols bikie has survived a shooting in suburban Melbourne, two years after an assassination attempt outside a cemetery.
Shots were fired at Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim, a professional boxer who goes by the name “The Punisher”, as he left his Thomastown home early on Friday morning.
Continue reading...Premillennialism advocate who has pleaded not guilty to five federal charges in Arizona allegedly posted videos saying family who killed officers were ‘martyrs’
An American man allegedly told the family who fatally shot two Australian police officers he sent his “comfort and assurance” before they died in a gunfight with a tactical response team.
United States prosecutors have unveiled new details about the December 2022 shootings at Wieambilla, west of Brisbane, as part of their case against Arizona man Donald Day Jr.
Continue reading...AEC tells Senate of overseas examples of ‘deceptive content’ about polls. Follow the day’s news live
The NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, was on ABC News Breakfast earlier to discuss the state’s four-day domestic violence blitz.
She said it was the sixth operation in 18 months, with “thousands of arrests” in that time.
[The operations] are scheduled about every quarter, so police have been doing this for quite some time. NSW police [utilise] the DV registry, where they accumulate information about [alleged] high-risk offenders and it’s that intelligence that they use to then go out and undertake these operations.
We will debate it when we return. I would really urge the opposition to get behind it and support those bail laws that we have before the parliament.
Everything is on the table. We are all worried about this, I’m a parent as well myself. Social media companies are not doing enough and we need to seriously look if we need to change the law in order to keep your young people safe.
We need to get all the experts in one place. The premier [Chris Minns] has called this emergency summit. We are just seeing too many cases where the worst possible thing has occurred because of bullying online. We banned phones in schools in NSW and that has worked an enormous amount in the school day inside the school gates, but we need to look beyond that now.
Continue reading...Police say the boy’s mother raised concerns after the father failed to hand over the child for an access visit
A crime scene has been established after the bodies of a man and his two-year-old son were found in a home on the New South Wales far north coast overnight, in what police believe was a murder-suicide.
Police said officers attended a unit in East Lismore about 9.45pm on Sunday due to concerns for the welfare of a man and his son.
Continue reading...Man, 41, arrested and charged with online grooming after allegedly sending inappropriate images to someone he thought was 13
New South Wales police have charged a children’s author for the alleged online grooming of children, under Strike Force Trawler.
The state crime command’s sex crimes squad force detectives launched an investigation early this month after receiving an interstate report a children’s author was allegedly communicating inappropriately with a child online.
Continue reading...Woman told to buy MacBooks after being threatened with knife at the Stud Park shopping centre on 10 May, police say
A mother and her baby were allegedly abducted from a Melbourne shopping centre by a knife-wielding man who then forced the woman to drive to electronic stores to buy laptops.
Victoria police are hunting for the man after the incident in Rowville, in Melbourne’s south-east, on 10 May.
Continue reading...Chris Minns said Labor MP Anthony D’Adam’s comments in a speech to parliament were ‘absolutely reprehensible’
A Labor politician who criticised the actions of New South Wales police officers towards pro-Palestinian protesters has been sacked from his role as parliamentary secretary by the premier, Chris Minns.
Minns took aim at the comments made by the upper house MP Anthony D’Adam, saying that D’Adam had never raised his concerns about the police commissioner, Karen Webb, and officers before making his speech in parliament on Wednesday night.
Continue reading...Lawyers to open their case after Lynn, 57, pleaded not guilty to murdering the pair in March 2020
A jury is expected to begin hearing evidence in the double murder trial of Gregory Stuart Lynn in the Victorian supreme court on Tuesday.
Lynn, 57, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay in the state’s alpine region in March 2020.
Continue reading...