Courts
Ex-Churchie swim coach who assaulted schoolgirl appeals criminal record
A court has heard how there was a 900-odd message exchange between the former coach, Benjamin James David Allen, and the complainant.
- by Cloe Read
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Man aided mate’s plan to ‘tie and burn’ wife, jury told
A workmate of the man who murdered Kelly Wilkinson knew of his plan to “tie up and burn” his estranged wife and helped him get petrol, a jury has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
Billionaire high-roller who skipped town owing Star casino $43m ordered to repay debts
Singaporean gambling baron Yew Choy Wong signed a blank cheque. But when The Star casino staff tried to cash that cheque for $43m at a National Australia Bank branch on the Gold Coast, it bounced.
- by Courtney Kruk
Father cries as church group accused of killing girl gives closing submissions
On Friday the congregation, known as “the Saints”, told a judge the allegations against the members were false, and that they believed the girl would be healed by God.
- by Cloe Read
Woman grossly neglected child before ‘shocking’ death
A stepmother grossly neglected a little girl who died in “filth and squalor” after months of abandonment.
- by Savannah Meacham
Mum’s pain over ‘depraved’ torture, manslaughter of son
The mother of Andrew Wright Stephens has described her family’s “tsunami of pain” as a man has been jailed for the torture and manslaughter of her son.
- by Fraser Barton
The elusive family and the secrets behind The Star’s new casino owners
The family that took legal action to suppress a report into Star’s suitability to hold a casino licence has a long history of escaping scrutiny.
- by Harriet Alexander
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The Star Entertainment Group
Star secret: The bombshell casino report we can’t print
A leaked probity report into Star Entertainment’s new casino will stay secret after the company’s partner took legal action to prevent it being published.
- by Harriet Alexander and Amelia McGuire
Failed drug dealer laments ‘worst job he ever had’
“You did not have an effective debt-recovery system,” a justice told the dealer before sentencing him in Brisbane on Tuesday.
- by Savannah Meacham
Church group on trial had ‘common’ goal to stop girl’s insulin, judge rules
The justice was shown thousands of text messages and emails exchanged between two or more of the defendants in the months leading up to the eight-year-old’s death.
- by Rex Martinich
Childcare rapist pleads guilty to hundreds of charges, families in tears
While the families of his victims cried in the courtroom, Ashley Griffith listened for almost three hours as the charges were read aloud.
- by Cloe Read