The notorious gangland figure has this morning been charged with sexual assault after he was dramatically arrested at his Karrinyup home.
Lauren Price
A man split the bridge of his partner’s nose open with an unknown object while she was eating her dinner because he wanted to go home, a court has been told.
Tegan Guthrie
A Perth woman allegedly murdered by her own son called the cops just hours before her death because she was concerned he was behaving erratically – but WA Police refused to attend.
Josh Zimmerman and Phil Hickey
The Commonwealth prosecutor who didn’t oppose bail for a man released from immigration detention - now accused of taking part in a Girrawheen grandmother’s brutal bashing - raised concerns over his release.
Rebecca Le May
A Coffin Cheater convicted under new laws that ban the display of outlaw gang insignia, has failed to overturn his guilty verdict.
Jake Dietsch
A Catholic college teacher in Perth’s northeast who took indecent photos of female students and was turning up to school still drunk after downing a bottle of vodka each night has been jailed for one year.
The daughter of the elderly couple allegedly brutally bashed by a released detainee says it is “unfathomable” how her parents were subjected to their ordeal.
Tim Clarke
WA’s most notorious bikie Troy Mercanti has had a major win in a South Australian court, which will see taxpayers cop the bill.
Phil Hickey
A man who relentlessly assaulted his partner in a sickening attack in the Perth CBD has been jailed for four years and faces tribal punishment when he returns to his remote WA community.
The group wants the Supreme Court to order the Veterans Motorcycle Club out of its Nollamara sub-branch, saying it has ‘intentionally occupied’ the building since March.
Sean Smith and Ben Harvey
A former immigration detainee who allegedly breached his curfew multiple times and failed to keep his tracking device “in working order” will remain behind bars after appearing in court on the charges.
Emily Moulton and Katina Curtis
A Kelmscott real estate agency has been slapped with a fine after selling a first-homebuyer the wrong house.
Raquel de Brito
A Banksia Grove man who produced ‘sickening’ child abuse material and stored more than a thousand videos on his phone has been jailed following a crack police investigation.
Caleb Runciman
Police are treating the death of a sex worker whose body was found in a Perth hotel room as a suspected homicide.
The family of a Yamatji woman fatally shot by a WA police officer who was later acquitted of her murder want an order protecting his identity lifted ahead of an inquest into her death.
Emily Moulton
The corporate watchdog wants Australia to attract sustainable investment, not scare it off, but not at the expense of well-meaning consumers and investors.
Marion Rae
The failure by prison officers to respond to a threat made against an inmate who was fatally bashed by fellow prisoners at WA’s largest prison is one of the issues being explored at an inquest into his death.
Outgoing WA senator Linda Reynolds says she ‘looks forward’ to seeing Brittany Higgins in court for another trial — a day after her fiancée David Sharaz pleaded for peace in their ongoing defamation battle.
Bruce Lehrmann should pay the entire costs of his failed defamation case a court has heard, as Linda Reynolds issues a new statement saying she is ‘looking forward’ to seeing Brittany Higgins in court.
Jacob John Dwyer, accused of the shooting murder that sent Perth’s eastern fringe into lockdown in November, has denied he was the gunman and is set to face trial.
A 28-year-old man accused of wielding a fake gun while robbing a Perth servo and carjacking a driver was unable to face court after suffering a medical episode in his cell.
A woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after killing a 21-year-old much-loved daughter in a drug-fuelled crash in Perth’s south, prompting her devastated parents to call for the maximum jail term.
A scheme to help women leave violent partners will be made permanent and the Albanese Government will trial pornography age verification access as part of a response to the crisis of violence against women.
Katina Curtis
A man who raped his wife left her so traumatised that she tried to take her own life twice in the immediate aftermath of the incident, with family members intervening to stop her.
Anneke de Boer