ABC Kimberley / By Hannah Barry More than 70 people have been charged under Western Australia's new anti-strangulation laws in the first month and a half. The family violence legislation came into effect on October 1, and made it a specific offence to…
Police say 39-year-old had filled in a form stating he had a legitimate reason to leave home By Kim Willsher French police have fined a man who left his home with a written lockdown declaration stating he was out to…
By Joanna Menagh After 13 years fighting to clear his name, most of that time in custody, WA man Scott Austic has been found not guilty — after a second trial — of murdering his pregnant lover. WARNING: Aboriginal and…
By court reporter Meagan Dillon and Mahalia Carter After deliberating for five days, a South Australian Supreme Court jury has failed to reach a verdict in the murder trial of Caroline Nilsson, who was accused of faking a home invasion to cover up…
By Amy Johnston A 25-year-old Perth man has faced court charged over the alleged online sexual exploitation of 112 girls from various countries. The man allegedly pretended to be a 15-year-old social media celebrity to befriend the girls before blackmailing…
By Tony Zhang WA to streamline restraining order system By Tony Zhang|12 October 2020 A new restraining order system is set to be in place for Western Australians with a new model aimed to streamline contested family violence restraining order…
By Rebecca Trigger Bradley Robert Edwards is found guilty of murdering Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer, but not guilty of killing 18-year-old Sarah Spiers, all of whom disappeared from the Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-1990s in what became…
Advocates condemn ‘aggressive tough-on-crime approach’ to sentencing of Aboriginal children By Lorena Allam The rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in the Northern Territory is 43 times the rate for non-Indigenous children and 17 times…
By Baz Ruddick When removalist John Siaki witnessed a man hitting his wife he says it shocked him so much, he decided he needed to do something about it. "I felt powerless … as if he had hit me," he…
A magistrate has been arrested and charged with deception over alleged traffic offences involving his car. Magistrate Robert Harrap has been charged with two counts of deception and one count of conspiracy to commit the offence of abuse of public…