Murder

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 […]

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 […]

A terrifying arranged marriage, an evil mother-in-law and a chilling murder. Sarbjit Kaur Athwal talks exclusively to Juliet Rieden about how she risked her life to testify against her family in a landmark honour killing trial that shocked the world

Tom Meagher’s life was destroyed when his wife, Jill, was raped and murdered nine months ago, in a crime that shocked the nation. Jill’s killer, Adrian Ernest Bayley, has pleaded guilty to murder and has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of 35 years. He could be back on the […]

The man who fatally punched teenager Thomas Kelly during a night out in Sydney’s Kings Cross has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge, 19, entered the plea at Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning. He was originally charged with murder, but the prosecution accepted the lesser plea. Loveridge was accused of assaulting five males, including […]

Family and friends of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher have appeared in court to voice the impact the horrendous crime has had on their lives. The husband, father and mother of the ABC employee who was attacked in Melbourne last September, submitted emotional victim impact statements at the plea hearing for the man who admitted […]

The ex-boyfriend of murdered Sydney girl Kate Malonyay plunged to his death this afternoon after being chased by police seeking to arrest him. Elliot Coulson leapt from 26th floor balcony of a luxury Gold Coast hotel this morning as homicide detectives were trying to get into his hotel room. The tragic twist comes the same […]

Oscar Pistorius has broken his silence, telling a court what he claims is the “truth” about what happened the night he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead. Pistorius was too upset to speak in court yesterday, instead asking his lawyer to read out his account of the events that led to Steenkamp’s death. In the […]

Ben Ryan was just 24 years old when his father Jeffrey was murdered by a contract killer paid for by his ex-wife and her cold-blooded family. Jeffrey, 48, a respected grazier and cattle breeder died alone in the darkness at his 485-hectare property, Callemondah, at Duri, near Tamworth in northern NSW, after a 12-gauge shotgun […]