Crime
Whistleblower set to oversee DNA lab reform if LNP wins election
A whistleblower who exposed a state-run forensic lab’s failures has claimed the Queensland government rejected her offer to help, describing it as “attacking the messenger”.
- by Fraser Barton and Savannah Meacham
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Scalded baby’s mum angry that suspect slipped past police and left Australia
The mother described the man who threw hot coffee on her son in a Brisbane park as a monster.
- by Cameron Atfield, Marissa Calligeros and Cloe Read
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
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Adult crime, adult time: Responsibilities can’t come without rights
We can’t have it both ways. If young people are to be treated like adults in the criminal justice system, how can we deny them the right to vote?
- by Cameron Atfield
Police officer stabbed with ‘large pair of scissors’ moved to Brisbane hospital
The Roma officer was flown to Brisbane after being stabbed while responding to a domestic violence call-out.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Interstate and international agencies join Brisbane coffee assault manhunt
Queensland police have widened their search for a man allegedly involved in the scalding of a nine-month-old in a Brisbane park.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
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
Police told to review handling of complaints about Brisbane childcare paedophile
Queensland’s police minister has asked for another review into how officers handled complaints into one of Australia’s worst paedophiles.
- by Cloe Read
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
Teen on terror charges over plan to attack Brisbane school
Counter-terrorism police have charged a teenager over a plot to attack a school on Brisbane’s northside.
- by Peter Fegan