Two young European lovers have been handed massive jail terms after trying to collect about 100kg of what they believed was cocaine from a storage unit in Belmont.
Rebecca Le May
A second man has been charged with murder over a fatal stabbing inside a home in Perth’s south that claimed the life of a 30-year-old.
One of the WAFL’s longest-serving umpires is accused of stalking his ex-partner and breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her almost 400 times.
Rachel Fenner and Jackson Barrett
A 51-year-old Perth man has been sentenced over a frightening axe incident in Perth’s north.
Jessica Evensen
Midland detectives have charged several young men accused of terrorising the community — including an incident where a woman was allegedly hit several times with a piece of wood and robbed.
Caleb Runciman
A former truck driver accused of repeatedly raping and choking a woman just five days after they met on a dating app has been acquitted of all charges, with the jury swiftly delivering unanimous verdicts.
A 25-year-old Mandurah man accused of living the high life while fleecing 22 investors out of $2.5 million has been told to enter pleas at his next court appearance - the same instruction he got last time.
An alleged dating app rapist – who has been accused of sexually assaulting three women he met online – had an unexpected development in court today.
Tim Clarke
A Geraldton man has been hit with fines totalling more than $9000 for illegally taking more than 100 abalone from Greenough River, after he was caught using a screwdriver to peel them from a reef platform.
Jessica Moroney
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. A man accused of violating and choking a woman he had just met on a dating app ‘couldn’t bear not having her under his control’ when she went down south and chatted with another man.
An Ellenbrook couple are accused of having a penchant for stealing Toyota Landcruiser four-wheel-drives and caravans, targeting the vehicles in elaborate thefts across Perth’s east.
A teenager who repeatedly punched and kicked his girlfriend of two years in the head has been handed a community-based order to seek counselling and find out the underlying cause of his actions.
A man high on meth who ploughed his vehicle into the Geraldton police station while wearing a crash helmet has had his sentencing adjourned after concerns he has more underlying mental health concerns.
A teenager has pleaded guilty in Geraldton Magistrates Court after stealing two cars, a motorcycle, and a tub of confectionery in Geraldton over the course of several weeks.
Anna Cox
Police have made a stunning DNA breakthrough in the case of a previously unidentified man who was hit and killed by a train in Perth more than 20 years ago.
Phil Hickey
One of the criminal detainees released following a seismic High Court judgement late last year is now suing the Commonwealth Government for false imprisonment.
A man found guilty of persistently having sex with a young teenage girl has had conviction quashed – and the case dropped – after a single word note from a judge to a jury sparked a successful appeal.
A 46-year-old woman who was jailed after stealing a beloved family dog in an Innaloo home burglary has had an application to extradite her to Queensland for other allegedly heartless offences dropped.
A Burundi-born former immigration detainee who allegedly repeatedly breached his stay-at-home curfew and failed to maintain his tracking device has flagged plans to plead guilty to all six of his charges.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A man accused of repeatedly raping and choking a woman he had just met via a dating app says he is not proud of abusive texts he sent her but insists they only had ‘rough sex’.
A Perth woman with a background in the law has been convicted of the terrifying stalking campaign of a man she met by chance — and then relentlessly hounded for years.
The mum accused of trying to kill her disabled daughter with insulin admitted to police there were two possible consequences from her actions — that she would ‘go peacefully’ or end up in hospital.
Emily Moulton
The CCC has been investigating the Mid West Ports Authority over serious misconduct allegations regarding the awarding of a security tender to a company owned by the city’s former mayor.
Matthew Paddick
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT — A woman has told a court that she did not flee a man she met on a dating app who allegedly sexually assaulted her because she was frozen with fear and told: ‘Be a good girl.’