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‘Can you guys help me’: Details of violent kidnapping from bottle store revealed
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Preventive detention lifted for violent offender with 70 convictions
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Business leader avoids conviction, keeps name secret after ‘cruel’ attack on partner
The man was granted name suppression and has avoided conviction.