Courts
A $180m deal was meant to rebuild Simon’s fortunes. Six months on, he struggled to scrape together $1m
Wilkie Creek coal mine was meant to revive the fortunes of Simon Raftery’s private credit firm. Instead, he lost colleagues, his house and became entangled in multiple court battles.
- by Anne Hyland
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Perth daycare worker found guilty of scratching young children’s faces
Kerri Louise Wharf was charged with aggravated assault after young children in her care were found with scratches on their faces.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Parents sue after alleged botched delivery leaves baby profoundly disabled
Blood and oxygen stopped flowing to the baby girl’s brain during her birth. Now she’s got cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an intellectual disability.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
‘If you scream, I’ll kill you’: Alleged Perth rapist linked to horrific attacks by DNA
A 54-year-old man has been arrested and charged after police connected him to the rape and assault of a 17-year-old girl in Kalgoorlie in 1991 and a 19-year-old woman in Perth’s CBD in 1990.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Crime
Alleged drug dealers forced to forfeit $640,000 – and luxury watches
A drugs bust in Perth has led the AFP to confiscate a large sum of cash and two watches together worth $90,000 found in a warehouse and hotel rooms.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Reynolds wins access to Higgins’ $2.4m trust documents
Brittany Higgins has less than $10,000 to her name, a court has been told before Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds succeeded in a bid to access her former political staffer’s trust deed.
- by Aaron Bunch
Bruce Lehrmann-Ten evidence probed for Higgins-Reynolds defamation case
The WA senator and former defence minister is suing her former political staffer, Brittany Higgins, over social media posts she says damaged her reputation.
- by Aaron Bunch
Two men found with young girl in van charged
A warning to keep aware of what your kids are doing on social media after a young girl was picked up by two men she was speaking with online and sexually assaulted.
- by Michael Stamp
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Crime
Investigation launched after video shows JC’s foster mother in ‘altercation’ with police
Tensions rising all week in Geraldton over the inquest into JC’s death peaked on Friday as an ugly scene with police resulted in a woman’s injury.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Appeal denied for Perth mother who shook her baby to death
A teenage mother who murdered her baby by violently shaking her appealed her life sentence, claiming it was “manifestly excessive”.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt