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The heartbreaking statement from father of boys killed in Blue Mountains tragedy
Ben and Russell were allegedly killed at the hands of their mother. Their distraught father Nick Smith has remembered his “happy, funny and outgoing boys”.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Sally Rawsthorne and Amber Schultz
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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
‘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
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Police await doctors’ clearance to interview mother over death of her two sons
The woman who police believe stabbed her two young sons to death at their Blue Mountains home has written extensively about her own mental health.
- by Amber Schultz, Sally Rawsthorne and Riley Walter
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 man charged over ‘brazen’ fatal shooting
Ayman Manly allegedly shot two men on a Sydney street. One died at the scene.
- by Riley Walter
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
‘Extraordinary devastation’: Hunter bus driver to spend decades in prison
Brett Button has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison over the fatal crash that claimed 10 lives and injured dozens more.
- by Perry Duffin
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Heartbreaking images of family emerge after mother arrested over boys’ deaths
Photos showed an apparently happy, loving family before two boys were found dead in a Blue Mountains home and their mother arrested.
- by Amber Schultz, Riley Walter and Sally Rawsthorne
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NRL off-field behaviour
Police didn’t follow usual procedures with Addo-Carr drug testing
Police were supposed to do a second test after the Bulldogs star allegedly returned a positive test for cocaine, but were called away to reports of a home invasion.
- by Clare Sibthorpe and Michael Chammas
‘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