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Life imprisonment for Valentine Day killer

Drug-debt heavies admit kidnap, assault

A customer who ran up a $5500 drug debt was kidnapped, beaten and forced to hand over his car by the "heavies" employed to collect the money.

Children hit with hammer

Teen attackers charged

Ad evokes Dubai killing

Two charged over fall

Youth target in knife-crime review

The Government is considering a proposal to limit the sale of knives to young people amid concerns over the number of knife crimes.

Heated confrontations end in tragedy

Berezovsky wins libel case over poisoning claim

Pair guilty of disabled woman's manslaughter

The caregivers of an intellectually disabled woman have been found guilty of manslaughter by a High Court jury today, after seven hours of deliberations.

Teen jailed for life for taxi driver's murder

A 17-year-old was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 15-1/2 years for murdering a taxi driver.

Caregiver jury retires

Facebook fears after sex offender logged on to kill

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

Surgery for girl badly beaten in park attack

Jurors retire in caregivers' trial over death

Grandmother saves baby from infanticide attempt

A baby owes its life to its grandmother who intervened during her own daughter's attempt at infanticide.

Brain-damaged mother sentenced for assaults

'Facebook killer' jailed for life