Courts
WA Justice ‘incompetent and incapable’: Former Children’s Court judge
The retired judge slammed the department that oversees youth justice in WA, telling an inquest he had predicted the tragedy that came to pass last October.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Kenneth and Wendy got engaged four days after they met. Four decades later she tried to kill him
She described their marriage as “lovely” and said she loved her husband to bits. Now she’s been sentenced to nine years behind bars for attempted murder.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Dodgy Perth dealer fined a second time over illegal car trading business
Jacob Hamilton copped a $40,000 fine two years ago for running a car sales business in Stirling without a license. Within weeks he was back at it.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth nurse who tried to kill ill husband collapses after hearing sentence
Wendy Sym was suffering from carer’s burnout and had “hit the end of her tether” when she injected a lethal dose of insulin into her husband while he was in hospital.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Alleged lookout guy ‘disgusted’ by horrific bashing of 73-year-old Ninette Philips
Seyed Younes Tahami, 38, is one of three men charged over the horrific attack on Ninette and Philip Simons on April 16. But in court he said he went to Ninette’s aid during the assault.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt
A $180m deal was meant to rebuild Simon’s fortunes. Six months on, he struggled to scrape together $1m
Wilkie Creek coal mine was meant to revive the fortunes of Simon Raftery’s private credit firm. Instead, he lost colleagues, his house and became entangled in multiple court battles.
- by Anne Hyland
Perth daycare worker found guilty of scratching young children’s faces
Kerri Louise Wharf was charged with aggravated assault after young children in her care were found with scratches on their faces.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Parents sue after alleged botched delivery leaves baby profoundly disabled
Blood and oxygen stopped flowing to the baby girl’s brain during her birth. Now she’s got cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an intellectual disability.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
‘If you scream, I’ll kill you’: Alleged Perth rapist linked to horrific attacks by DNA
A 54-year-old man has been arrested and charged after police connected him to the rape and assault of a 17-year-old girl in Kalgoorlie in 1991 and a 19-year-old woman in Perth’s CBD in 1990.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Crime
Alleged drug dealers forced to forfeit $640,000 – and luxury watches
A drugs bust in Perth has led the AFP to confiscate a large sum of cash and two watches together worth $90,000 found in a warehouse and hotel rooms.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Reynolds wins access to Higgins’ $2.4m trust documents
Brittany Higgins has less than $10,000 to her name, a court has been told before Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds succeeded in a bid to access her former political staffer’s trust deed.
- by Aaron Bunch