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Police to accuse ex-partner of helping plan alleged attack on daycare mum
Police say the young mother struck by a vehicle after dropping a child at the centre had been in a relationship months earlier with a man now charged over her death.
- by Cloe Read
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Murder accused ‘embraced’ view to stop girl’s medicine
The accused allegedly embraced the belief he should stop his daughter’s diabetes medication in favour of God’s healing.
- by Rex Martinich
Driver who killed Brisbane motorcyclist told police ‘riders make s--- up’: court
Father Ken Hembrow, 37, was riding his motorbike along Queen Street in January when he was hit by a car outside the Marriott hotel.
- by Cloe Read
Mother on trial over girl’s death acted on Bible ‘facts’
A woman accused of killing her eight-year-old daughter by withholding her insulin told a previous trial she followed “facts” in the Bible that God could cure diabetes or resurrect people.
- by Rex Martinich
Girl ‘nearly died’ of neglect before alleged murder
A senior endocrinologist told court that Elizabeth Struhs was “the most seriously unwell child I have ever seen”.
- by Rex Martinich
Soldier, labourer, gold diggers: who are the married couple accused of spying for Russia?
It was gold Kira Korolev was obsessed with, filling her YouTube channel with footage of her never-ending search for a few glimmering flecks.
- by Angus Thompson, Cloe Read, Cameron Atfield and Adrian Proszenko
Church group in girl’s death trial claims ‘persecution’
“This isn’t really a trial about murder of a child as it is religious persecution.”
- by Rex Martinich
‘They believed God would raise her from the dead’
Elizabeth Struhs’ body was left on a mattress for 36 hours before authorities were called because a fringe religious group believed God would “raise her from the dead”, a court has heard.
- by Cloe Read
Qld police officer denies raping colleague after Christmas party
When a police detective woke to a colleague raping her after a Christmas party nearly 25 years ago, she screamed before jumping out of bed, a court has been told.
- by Cheryl Goodenough
Child murder accused couple to face trial without jury
A woman accused with her fiance of murdering her three-year-old daughter will face trial without a jury due to what a judge described as a risk of prejudicial testimony.
- by Rex Martinich
‘More disappointed than angry’: Kefu reacts to home invaders’ sentence
Australian rugby great Toutai Kefu has spoken of his frustrations over crime as Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath reviews the sentences given to his attackers.
- by Sean Parnell