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Jake and Callum Robinson.

Courts & JusticeVideoChilling detail as accused Perth brothers killers face trial

A Mexican courtroom has heard chilling witness details in the trial of the three men accused of killing Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson in April 2024. 

Brooke Rolfe

Family members and friends of Abby Shiozaki.

CrimePremiumMan charged with fatal Wandina crash appears in court

A Nanson man charged over a fatal crash in Wandina last year has appeared in court and is due to face trial over the collision that killed 20-year-old Abby Shiozanka. 

Sally Q Davies

Police launched an urgent hunt for Patryk Kamal Singh last week after he failed to appear in court in relation to several charges including armed robbery. 

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Ex-bikie accused of $20k knifepoint robbery of chaplain

A former bikie associate who sparked a manhunt last week is accused of stealing more than $20k at knifepoint from a volunteer chaplain.

Rachel Fenner

Martin and Debra Robinson with their sons Callum and Jake.

Courts & JusticeVideoPerth parents’ big question after sons killed in Mexico

The heartbroken parents came face-to-face with the men accused of killing their sons.

Brooke Rolfe

Attorney-General Tony Buti said the new regulations would protect abuse survivors and their compensation claims.

State PoliticsPremiumWA Government to draft abuse survivor compensation rules

Regulations to ensure survivors of historical child abuse at the hands of the Christian Brothers are compensated will be drafted by the State Government.

Hannah Cross

Germanas Joneliunas, 24, is one of five on trial in the WA Supreme Court over his alleged involvement to import 850kg of cocaine — worth half a billion dollars.

Courts & JusticePremiumTourist in alleged coke plot claims he was smuggling tobacco

A young European tourist charged over his role in a botched coke smuggling plot has made a stunning admission claiming he thought he was actually helping traffic a shipment of illicit cigarettes into Australia.

Jessica Evensen

Australians shopping for funeral and life insurance were misled by comparison site Choosi after it sold itself as a shortcut through the market while blasting television ads more than 300,000 times, the Federal Court has found.

ASICPremiumChoosi misled customers in $61m insurance fight, court finds

Choosi’s “Compare. Choose. Apply.” pitch has been found to have misled Australians shopping for funeral and life insurance by a Federal Court after its TV ads aired more than 300,000 times.

Ryan Johnson

Investigators into Ben Roberts-Smith have hidden the identities of 723 people named in the evidence against him with pseudonyms.

Courts & JusticeInvestigators suppress 723 names in Ben Roberts-Smith case

The decision by the Office of the Special Investigator suggests it plans a no-compromise approach to securing the conviction of the Victoria Cross awardee and seeking a life sentence.

Aaron Patrick

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & JusticePremiumMan avoids immediate jail for sleeperhold attack

A man who avoided further prison time for his involvement in a violent home invasion has again avoided more jail for putting someone in a sleeper hold until they passed out and leaving them on a road.

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse

Courts & JusticePremiumBusiness owner fined for storing guns in bush

A local business owner and licensed firearm holder kept his three guns in a bush in the backyard of a friend’s house because he “did not want them to be stolen”. 

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & JusticePremiumHeroin dealer fined for 6kg of mercury

A Kalgoorlie-Boulder heroin dealer and prospector who admitted 17 drug charges has been fined for possessing 6kg of mercury.

Tegan Guthrie

Amanda Jane Basso allegedly set Spencer Park bakery Doralane Pastries on fire on October 12, and three days later allgedly tried to make a fraudulent insurance claim.

courtsPremiumInsurance fraud attempt gone wrong as bakery arsonist jailed

An Albany woman, who set fire to her Spencer Park bakery while she was locked inside in 2024 and then attempted to claim more than $1m in business insurance, has been jailed. 

Jacki Elezovich

A 40-year-old man has had part of his prison term suspended for stealing copper wire from CBH sites.

courtsPremiumPartly suspended term for stealing copper from CBH sites

A man who stole more than $38,000 worth of copper wire from multiple disused grain processing terminals in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt more than two years ago has had part of his jail sentence suspended.

Jacki Elezovich

On board were 16 crew members, including 46-year-old Milan Begovic, the ship’s captain.

Courts & JusticePremiumWA skipper denies knowing about 850kg cocaine haul

A skipper accused of smuggling nearly a tonne of cocaine on a cargo ship from South America into WA claims he ‘did not know’ any illicit drugs were onboard his boat, a WA Supreme Court jury has heard.

Jessica Evensen

Kununurra Magistrates Court.

WA news PremiumGroup convicted of ‘assault in Kununurra sent to jail

Three men have been sentenced to jail and a woman handed a suspended sentence over a horrific incident involving an alleged drug debt in Kununurra. 

Julia Petersen and Laura Newell

A District Court jury convicted her in July of three counts of dishonestly using her position as a director and one of managing a corporation while disqualified.

ASICPremiumWA director jailed again over $740k in ‘phoenix’ case

Pellew, who founded once viral label Kooey before serving 18 months in Bandyup Prison over a cannabis conspiracy, must spend at least 21 months behind bars for the latest offences. 

Ryan Johnson

Kalgoorlie Courthouse

Courts and justicePremiumMan ‘bought NSW plane tickets’ while on bail

A man who booked plane tickets home to NSW for a “high-paying” job opportunity, despite being on bail for serious offending in WA, was remanded in custody after self-representing for bail.

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts and justicePremiumMan bailed after allegedly firing gun in Esperance

A man has been granted bail after he allegedly endangered a person by firing a gun in Esperance.

Isabella Davis

Significant damaged caused by the deliberately lit blaze in the late 1970s.

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Serial WA arsonist latest to walk free on $614k NDIS plan

Serial WA arsonist Victor Raven is the latest dangerous criminal to walk free from prison after he was granted an eye-watering taxpayer-funded NDIS package.

Charlton Hart

Martin and Debra Robinson will attend the Mexican murder trial of the three men accused of murdering their sons Callum and Jake Robinson.

Courts & JusticeVideoPremiumParents attend trial over Perth brothers’ deaths in Mexico

The parents of two Perth brothers killed in Mexico have travelled to the country to attend the trial of three men accused of their murder, which begins on Monday.

Oliver Lane

Howard Avice-Demay is a Christian Brothers abuse survivor whose hard-fought compensation payout is in jeopardy now that a court has ordered a pause on all existing and future claims.

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Court freezes payouts to Christian Brothers abuse survivors

Hard-fought compensation owed to hundreds of survivors of abuse at the hands of the Christian Brothers has been thrown into temporary limbo by a court-ordered moratorium on all legal claims. 

Hannah Cross

Tom Geoffrey Lewandowski, formerly known as Adam Geoffrey Rybicki, is a declared High Risk Serious Offender.

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Tinder stalker fined for tampering with ankle monitor

The notorious Perth serial stalker was fined after muffling his ankle monitor charger in a blanket and dodging authorities because he ‘doesn’t answer private numbers’.

Charlton Hart

Christopher Brown leaving court on day one of his trial.

CourtPremiumAccused Perth fraudster makes extraordinary court admission

A Perth man accused of conning a couple out of $500,000 before gambling it all away has told a court he had the ‘discretion to use the funds accordingly’.

Hannah Cross

Margaret Dale Hawke stabbed and smothered her three children and then set fire to the house.

WA newsPremiumCall for inquest into deaths of three Port Hedland children

Calls are being made for a coronial inquest into the deaths of three Port Hedland children murdered by their mother. 

Laura Newell