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‘Arrests likely’ as police investigate multiple Rottnest Island assaults during ‘juvie week’
Superintendent Dave Dench of Fremantle Police said many of the teens did not have any adult supervision on the island, and some were only 13 years old.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Holly Thompson
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Two bikie bosses arrested after multiple gang crime raids across Perth
WA Police seized two luxury cars and hundreds of thousands of dollars after raiding six homes in March this year. That has led to the arrest of two senior bikie figures this week.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Web of lies: Why Andre Rebelo killed his ‘happy and healthy’ mother
Jurors cried as the verdict was announced on Thursday afternoon following nearly two days of deliberation and an eight-week trial.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Andre Rebelo found guilty of murdering his mother for her life insurance
A jury has returned a verdict of guilty for the 28-year-old, ending an eight-week trial in which prosecutors brought forward damning evidence of his motives for wanting his mother dead.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Former Broome bishop faces fresh sex assault charges
Christopher Saunders has been charged with five more offences of historical sex assault, allegedly committed against a 24-year-old man in 2016.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Chief justice rebuffs furore over magistrate’s comments despite Cook’s call to action
The state’s chief judge has declined to be drawn into the furore over a magistrate who branded a domestic violence victim “petulant”, despite a call to action from the WA premier.
- by Jesinta Burton
WA mum pleads guilty to careless driving over crash that killed twin daughters
Seven-year-old girls Macey and Riley died in February while travelling on Great Eastern Highway in the Wheatbelt after their mother veered off the road and crashed into a tree.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Group accused of murdering Cassius Turvey plead not guilty
Chief Justice Peter Quinlan will preside over the high-profile trial that is scheduled to start on February 10.
- by Aaron Bunch
Skipper of high-speed Horizontal Falls boat crash pleads guilty
On an eco-tour of Talbot Bay in the Kimberley in 2022, with 25 passengers and two crew on board, Falls Express hit the rocks, seriously injuring 12 people.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Man charged over alleged murder of his mother near Geraldton
A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman in her 40s, understood to be his mother, was found dead in Waggrakine on Friday evening.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
The reason this Perth man stabbed his mother 62 times
On Friday he was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 20 years for the “ferocious attack” on his mother after consuming a psychedelic drug.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt