A former immigration detainee who was released into the community after a landmark High Court ruling has become the fifth person in the cohort to be arrested. William Yekrop, 39, was arrested in Brisbane on Thursday morning. WATCH VIDEO ABOVE: Fifth person released from immigration detention arrested. Watch the latest news and stream for free … Read more
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has settled a defamation case with the ABC over the broadcast of a speech by his alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins. Lehrmann’s high-profile defamation case over media reports began on Wednesday, with an 18-day hearing scheduled in the Federal Court. The ABC’s barrister Dr Matthew Collins KC confirmed the settlement … Read more
Brittany Higgins broke down sobbing in the arms of her then-boyfriend days after being allegedly raped by Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House, a court has heard. Ben Dillaway says he flew to Canberra on March 27 in 2019 to support Higgins after suspecting she had been sexually assaulted the weekend before. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: … Read more
Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault A rape victim who was sexually assaulted by a man she met on a dating app has told a court she used to be “fun-loving and independent” before the assault. The woman, who cannot be identified, delivered a victim impact statement to Downing Centre District Court … Read more
A Sydney woman has been awarded more than $11,000 after she was thrown to the floor of a train when it hit a buffer stop at the end of a line. The 62-year-old woman and her husband were passengers on the T5 line service in January 2018 when it failed to slow down and hit … Read more
Former NSW Labor politician Milton Orkopoulos used drugs, money and his position of trust in the community to sexually assault vulnerable young boys. The now-66-year-old will spend another decade behind bars after being found guilty in April on 26 charges involving sexually abusing and supplying drugs to four minors between 1993 and 2003. He was … Read more
A 38-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter and negligent driving after a five-year-old boy died when he became trapped in a car swept away by floodwaters last year. The boy’s body was found inside a submerged utility vehicle in Tullamore, northwest of Parkes in central western NSW, in late 2022. On September 23, emergency … Read more
A sex offender released from immigration detention following a High Court ruling has been charged with two counts of indecent assault, prompting the federal opposition to call for two ministers to resign. Afghan refugee Aliyawar Yawari was deemed a “danger to the Australian community” by a South Australian judge in 2016 following attacks on three … Read more
A NSW company has been fined more than $400,000 after a worker became paralysed in a fall at a construction site. Martin Comiskey, who had 20 years’ experience as a qualified carpenter, was subcontracted to work at a site in Sydney’s CBD in November 2020 when he fell about 7-8m down a void, from a … Read more
A young boy has died after eating poisonous berries on a walk in a park with his father, just months after moving to England from Australia. Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, moved to Manchester with his family in June 2022. The teenager, who lived with severe autism, walked to Fletcher Moss Park in the suburb of Didsbury … Read more
