A police officer has defended the decision not to charge Charmaine McLeod’s ex-partner with rape months before she died in a car crash with their four children. The Coroners Court in Brisbane on Monday started its second week of hearings into the head-on collision that killed McLeod, 35 and her children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, … [Read more…]
A grieving man who saw one friend killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by an allegedly intoxicated driver while motorcycling near Brisbane has decried road safety as becoming “markedly worse”. Neil Mendham has issued an impassioned call for safer road use after the death of Darren* – a tourist from the UK … [Read more…]
A grieving man who saw one friend killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by an allegedly intoxicated driver while motorcycling near Brisbane has decried road safety as becoming “markedly worse”. Neil Mendham has issued an impassioned call for safer road use after the death of Darren* – a tourist from the UK … [Read more…]
A man has been charged with landing a fatal punch on a father-of-two outside a Gold Coast restaurant. Michael Hayes, 39, died on Thursday after being on life support since being hit outside Destino Wine and Bar in Sanctuary Cove on Saturday night. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Gold Coast father falls victim to one-punch attack. … [Read more…]
A father who was punched outside a Gold Coast restaurant has lost his fight for life. Michael Hayes, 39, was on life support since being attacked by an unknown man outside Destino Wine and Bar in Sanctuary Cove on Saturday night. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Gold Coast father falls victim to one-punch attack. Watch the … [Read more…]
Rebecca Payne, who killed her abusive husband Noel Payne in 2020 by lacing homemade biscuits with sleeping tablets, has been sentenced in Victoria’s Supreme Court. The 43-year-old was sentenced to 16 years on Thursday, with a minimum of 10 years before she can apply for parole, in what was labelled a “merciful” result. Payne tried … [Read more…]
Inconsistent stories around the death of a man caught cheating should be discarded, and his jilted lover found guilty of murder, a jury has been told. Jenny Niguidula told police she woke up on November 17, 2019, and heard her lover Rhonie Apostol making gurgling sounds from the bathroom of their Sydney home. Finding him … [Read more…]
An engineering firm has been fined $250,000 after a worker was killed while dismantling a former Victorian cheese factory. Glen Parsons died when he was crushed by a 770kg condenser at the old Murray Goulburn Cheese factory at Leitchville, in northern Victoria, in December 2017. The equipment was being loaded into a shipping container for … [Read more…]
Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault A Sydney man who terrorised women in the early 2000s by breaking into their homes and sexually assaulting them has pleaded guilty to a raft of offences. Darren Kennedy, 53, was dubbed the “Inner West rapist” over several attacks on women in Sydney in 2003 and … [Read more…]
A mother who waited until her husband had popped out before drowning her four-month-old son in a baby bath was “divorced from reality” at the time. The woman, who cannot be identified, killed the baby in her Sydney suburban home on May 20, 2021. “In the short absence from the home of her husband, the … [Read more…]