Before taking a hostage, Joshua Matthew Venzlouskas hit a prison guard so hard that his shiv broke off in his victim’s eyelid. With the rest of the 18cm handmade weapon he then repeatedly stabbed a Corrective Services officer in the neck, not stopping even when sprayed with a chemical agent. More than two years later, … [Read more…]
A young Australian held in an Indonesian prison cell after his arrest for a “naked, drunk” rampage has reached a settlement deal that could see him come home. Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, was detained by police in the Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Simeulue in April. He has spent the past month in … [Read more…]
Before taking a hostage, Joshua Matthew Venzlouskas hit a prison guard so hard that his shiv broke off in his victim’s eyelid. With the rest of the 18cm handmade weapon he then repeatedly stabbed a Corrective Services officer in the neck, not stopping even when sprayed with a chemical agent. More than two years later, … [Read more…]
Sitting at a busy Melbourne intersection, Tony Page noticed the passenger side mirror he had pushed in a few days earlier was still facing the wrong direction. He decided then and there was a good time to fix it but what followed was a series of mistakes that led to the death of 75-year-old pedestrian … [Read more…]
Armed with gold bullets and an eight-inch knife, Abdel-Aziz Hussein Ali kidnapped a driving instructor in a plot to snatch a woman he had previously held hostage. Nearly three weeks earlier, in March 2022, Ali forced the woman into his Brisbane home, covering her mouth as she started to scream “Help”, a court has been … [Read more…]
Fifty-eight one-kilo packages of cocaine warpped in Nazi swastikas and bearing the word Hitler have been seized by Peruvian police. The haul was intercepted in the port of Paita, on Peru’s northern Pacific coast close to its border with Ecuador. The drugs were hidden inside a shipping container carrying asparagus on the Liberian-flagged vessel SC … [Read more…]
A man who filmed himself raping a woman has been jailed for at least five years after his ex-wife found the tape. Boghos Parizian, 58, filmed an hour and 54 seconds of the assault on a VHS tape in the 1990s. More than 15 years later, he insisted on getting into his estranged wife’s place, … [Read more…]
A teenager who allegedly fired multiple gunshots at a school, hitting a classroom as teachers and students scrambled for cover, has been ordered to have a mental health assessment. The 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, briefly appeared in the Perth Children’s Court on Friday via video link. The youth could be … [Read more…]
Six Queensland patrol cars have been damaged in 48 hours after the second dangerous intercept of stolen vehicles in less than a week. Surfers Paradise police were involved in the latest incident involving two stolen Audi cars that unfolded in the heart of the nightclub strip on the Gold Coast on Thursday night. Police spotted … [Read more…]
A police officer has been left bloodied after being punched in the face at a Queensland shopping centre. The constable was patrolling Stocklands Shopping Centre in Townsville on Thursday evening when she and a colleague attempted to restrain a man. During the struggle, the man allegedly struck the officer. Watch the latest news and stream … [Read more…]