Crime
Copse and robbers: Tiny trees taken in $30k bonsai burglaries
A bonsai nursery in Glen Waverley has lost dozens of small but valuable trees in a spate of well-planned burglaries.
- by David Estcourt
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From the Archives, 1992: Three injured in Melbourne Airport shooting
30 years ago, three men were injured, one seriously, when a man opened fire at the crowded international terminal at Melbourne Airport.
- by Thomas Taylor, Bruce Tobin and Jim Schembri
Two men in comas after ‘horrific, senseless’ attack in Carlton
Confronting CCTV footage shows one of the victims stumbling in a laneway and collapsing after the attackers repeatedly stomped on his head.
- by Najma Sambul
Teenagers charged over fatal stabbing, alleged kidnapping
Eight teenagers have been charged over the death of one man and the alleged kidnapping of another man in Melbourne’s north-east, with four of the suspects arrested at the airport.
- by Rachael Ward
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Courts
Drug conviction overturned after police lied to get search warrant
Rhiannon Kurban spent two weeks in jail on remand after a raid on her home in 2018, but police conceded that the application for the warrant contained “inaccurate representations”.
- by Cameron Houston
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Naked City
‘He has done nothing to deserve it’: A son fights for his murdered mum
Last Saturday, St Kilda Town Hall hosted a rally aimed at keeping serial killer Paul Denyer in jail. Jake Blair, whose life was taken in a different way, was there.
- by John Silvester
Gatto’s son-in-law wins fresh trial because of judge’s comments to jury
Danny Awad, the son-in-law of underworld figure Mick Gatto, and his co-accused have won their appeal to the High Court after a judge misdirected their original jury.
- by Karen Sweeney
Deadly Melbourne house fire ‘premeditated’, court hears
The lawyer for a sex worker who lit a blaze that killed a couple and their baby daughter says his client should receive a low non-parole period due to her traumatic background and early offers to plead guilty.
- by Emily Woods
‘Their last breaths will haunt me’: Couple and baby killed in townhouse fire
A couple and their baby daughter died in a townhouse fire after a sex worker lit the blaze following a dispute with a client.
- by Karen Sweeney and Cassandra Morgan
Melbourne family loses $40k from suspected identity theft after Optus data breach
An Elsternwick cafe owner whose data was exposed in the Optus hack in September first realised something was wrong a fortnight ago. Since then, he has lost $40,000 in fraudulent withdrawals.
- by Lachlan Abbott
‘Ghost guns’ and 3D printing: Secret arsenals and grey market fuel Victoria’s firearm problem
More than 25 years after the Port Arthur massacre and the ban on assault rifles, Victoria still has a gun problem. Police statistics show firearm offences are on the rise after a lull during the pandemic.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola