Acting Premier Roger Cook is ‘not alarmed’ by a big surge in police resignations, insisting the force was falling victim to the same labour market shortages impacting a wide range of industries.
Josh Zimmerman
The man accused of repeatedly raping two homeless teenage girls in a hotel donga in Perth’s south has denied all charges and wants to be freed from custody ahead of his trial. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT
Indigo Lemay-Conway
A “talented artist” defecated in her hands and wrote on a cell wall in faeces after being arrested for carrying a knife and slapping an IGA employee after stealing from the shop
Tegan Guthrie
A man who repeatedly punched a “sleazy” man out the front of a pub because he was behaving inappropriately towards his sister has been spared the conviction appearing on his record
A Bunbury school bus driver who ‘groomed’ a teenager on SnapChat, offered to be her Sugar Daddy, and paid her for sex, has been jailed.
Emily Moulton
Former Comancheros’ State leader Nikola Maksimovic is heading to jail for a generation — here are a few handy hints he’ll need for when he’s on the inside.
Ben Harvey
Jordan Falconer suspected something was wrong with the 4kg drug shipment he was expecting but got selfish. Now he is spending 10 years in jail.
Shannon Hampton
An ‘academically gifted’ former UWA student used Instagram and Snapchat to find girls as young as 12 and bombard them with lewd text messages to get them to send him explicit content of themselves.
Sarah Steger
A man who repeatedly raped and inappropriately touched a 13-year-old girl while he was babysitting her in Esperance in 2020 has been jailed for six-and-a-half years
A woman accused of threatening to kill an Australian Electoral Commission worker and shouting racial slurs at her in a remote Aboriginal community has had her bail extended.
The son of a leading Perth surgeon has been allowed to continue his training as an intern in a public hospital despite being accused of sexually assaulting a fellow medical student at a boozy celebration.
The mafia crime figure found guilty of killing a WA Police officer has been struck down by a mystery condition just moments after being convicted of the assassination.
Michael Traill
A man with a propensity for throwing full cans of beer at people when he is drunk has been jailed for 12 months.
A brazen daylight robbery - allegedly carried out by a 13-year-old boy armed with a knife - in Hamilton Hill is unsurprising to locals of the southern suburb in the wake of a string of serious crimes.
Daryna Zadvirna
A 25-year-old with ties to the Comanchero and who police believe was behind a drug trafficking syndicate won’t be walking free despite being granted bail today.
Money supposedly being invested by Applecross-based investment and charity promoter Michael Dunjey may have been used to pay back old investors in an allegedly unlawful scheme, the Federal Court has been told.
Neale Prior
Titus Day, the former manager of Guy Sebastian, has been found guilty of dozens of charges that he fraudulently embezzled money out of the pop star.
Greta Stonehouse
A Geraldton-based police sergeant who said ‘laziness’ was the reason he had failed to safely store ammunition and surrender a banned gel blaster has been spared having the conviction appear on his record.
Jess Moroney and Phoebe Pin
The teen accused of fatally stabbing Good Samaritan Petr Levkovskiy will have to spend at least another three weeks in custody after an email led to another legal delay.
An alleged bikie associate is accused of trying to destroy his phone by drenching it in water so officers couldn’t access the data in it as part of an ongoing drugs investigation.
Brianna Dugan
A 13-year-old boy — initially suspected of being an adult due to his large build — has been charged after he allegedly brandished a huge knife during a daylight robbery at a Hamilton Hill deli.
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson has called the murder of a WA detective in a parcel bombing an ‘outrageous crime’ and said police vowed never to give up on bringing the man responsible to justice.
Lachlan Allen & Shannon Hampton
After almost three decades, justice has finally been served for the family of a WA police officer who was killed in a bomb blast in 1994, after the underworld figure responsible was convicted of his murder.
The corporate watchdog claims mountaineer turned investment and charity promoter Michael Dunjey was running a Ponzi scheme now owing $150 million.
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