Crime

Australian swimming champion Geoff Huegill and his wife have apologised to all the people we have let down after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.

With high-profile child sex abuse cases causing fear among Australian parents we investigate what causes paedophilia and what can we do about it.

On an April morning last year, four-year-old Aron Siermans sat alone by his dead mother's body as day broke in Ballarat, Victoria.

In what could lead to the first arrests in the case, the Met want to question the three men who were in the area of the Portuguese resort in Praia da Luz where the British girl vanished while on a family holiday on May 3, 2007. Mobile phone records show the men, who are believed […]

The NSW Legislative Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to support the inquiry, after relentless lobbying by the families. Colleen Walker, 16, Evelyn Greenup 4, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16, were murdered over an eight-month period between 1990 and 1991 in the largely Aboriginal town of Bowraville, in NSW. A white man, who had been living in […]

Let’s say you’re a shonky property developer, or maybe a shady businessman, a dodgy politician, a union official with your snout in the trough and your hands deep in other people’s pockets. Maybe you’re somebody whose expense claims don’t add up; maybe you live in an extravagant mansion that you could not, given that you […]

The mother of abused six-year-old Kiesha Weippeart has today been sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in jail for her murder, triggering outrage from the little girl’s supporters. Kristi Abrahams, 30, and her boyfriend Robert Smith took Kiesha’s body into the bush and buried her in a shallow grave three years and three days […]

The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher in a brutal attack that shocked the nation is appealing his life sentence for murder. Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, was sentenced to life in jail, with a non-parole period of 35 years, for the attack on the popular ABC employee in Melbourne last year. Bayley admitted to […]

As news breaks of another female journalist being gang-raped in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptian writer Sonia Dridi tells the story of Yasmine El-Baramawy, who was sexually assaulted by a violent mob last November.

Two teenage girls have been shot dead in Pakistan, apparently because of a video of them dancing in the rain. The girls, aged 15 and 16, were filmed laughing and dancing in the rain in full traditional dress, including headscarves, outside their stone hut in the country’s north six months ago. Last Sunday, they were […]