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‘We were racing’: The six minutes of madness that left two kids dead
An eight-kilometre street race around the shores of Botany Bay ended in a horrific fireball that killed a nine-year-old boy and his 10-year-old brother.
- by Sarah McPhee
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‘Mean, hateful’: Magistrate scolds man who dumped ex-girlfriend’s snakes in Coogee
Justin Downs, 26, destroyed two python enclosures before releasing the pets Bagel and Mango in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- by Nick Newling
Minor traffic accident that left two dead on Anzac Bridge
Sydney driver Adeeb Sukkar has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of Amy Lim and Hongyi Zhang in 2022.
- by Sarah McPhee
Sydney teacher allegedly raped student three times
Maths teacher Roj Dalisay, who taught at a large Sydney Catholic school, allegedly assaulted a student for more than a year.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Clare Sibthorpe
Greenwich condemns ‘Trump-style attacks’ after defamation win against Latham
The Independent Sydney MP has been awarded $140,000 in damages after he won his defamation case against the former NSW One Nation leader over an offensive tweet.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
‘Look at my face’: Survivor dreamt Hunter Valley bus driver had killed himself
The man ordered guilty driver Brett Button to show him respect as he recounted the horrors of the June 2023 crash that claimed 10 lives.
- by Perry Duffin
‘You all think you’re such gangsters’: Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer
The magistrate savaged the western Sydney teenager, saying “we’re sick” of dealers coming to the eastern suburbs with their encrypted phones.
- by Amber Schultz
‘I care not for the keys to be lost’: Grieving father and husband confronts Hunter Valley bus driver
Survivors, friends and family of the 10 wedding guests killed in the “unprecedented” tragedy walked arm-in-arm into Newcastle courthouse for the sentencing of Brett Button.
- by Perry Duffin
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Crime
University student had ‘knife in either hand’ in alleged attack against boyfriend
The president of the UTS Events Society allegedly stabbed the man in a jealous rage over texts from his ex-partner.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
Andrew O’Keefe’s ‘tendency to spit’: judge’s scathing finding
The former Seven Network presenter tried to blame his victim and treated her in a “low, demeaning” way, a judge said.
- by Sarah McPhee
Lehrmann judge’s six ideas to fix court secrecy
Justice Michael Lee told a lawyers’ conference that despite laws aimed at increasing transparency, courts were moving in the opposite direction.
- by Harriet Alexander