Victoria Police
More teens are committing more violent crimes. How did we get here?
William Taylor’s death has thrust the issue of youth crime back into the headlines, but statistics show it is a problem years in the making.
- by Melissa Cunningham, Wendy Tuohy and Chris Vedelago
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Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh told he will be arrested for allegedly inciting hatred
The owner of Burgertory has been asked to attend a police station next week to be interviewed over chants and speeches at a series of pro-Palestine rallies in the city.
- by Chris Vedelago and Marta Pascual Juanola
Alleged ‘puppeteer’ brother of tobacco war kingpin released on bail
The brother of an alleged organised crime kingpin has been granted bail despite fears he’s a flight risk and player in a violent illicit tobacco syndicate.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Naked City
A new profile of Mr Cruel, who may have been a burglar before he was a killer
A US crime profile says Mr Cruel was a burglar who escalated to abducting girls. “It is an addiction. You build a tolerance and have to up the game to get the thrill.”
- by John Silvester
Man dies after swallowing cyanide during arrest in Macedon Ranges
Five police officers were taken to hospital after the arrest as a precaution.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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Domestic violence
The true picture of Melbourne’s family violence: 2700 arrests in five months
A police blitz in the south-east suburbs has caught 2700 family-violence offenders in five months, as Safe Steps warns more perpetrators are strangling victims.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Former Home and Away star facing jail time for assaults on a woman
Orpheus Pledger pulled a woman to the ground by the hair and stomped on her face in a series of assaults over three months.
- by Erin Pearson
Love Machine slapped with $20,000 fine, warned of harsher sanctions
Police found an unconscious man in a staff room at the popular Prahran nightclub, which also admitted to holding an event during a COVID-19 lockdown.
- by Cameron Houston
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Crime
Murder accused fronts court after fisherman’s pier death
A homeless man will receive urgent medical treatment after he was charged with murder over the stabbing death of an angler in Frankston on Saturday.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Holly Hales
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Alcohol
The sobering-up centre refused to help a man. He was then killed by a car
A man was hit by a car and killed in Wyndham Vale after a police request for help from the state’s new sobering-up program was rejected.
- by Erin Pearson and Broede Carmody
Opinion
Trial by Water
I was Lindy Chamberlain’s lawyer. Her case is eerily similar to Robert Farquharson’s
For four decades, I have seen junk science and biases based on the behaviour of an accused playing a substantial role in police investigations, prosecutions and juries.
- by Stuart Tipple