OCCUPIED IN SILENCE
I’m wondering what the “Occupy Boston Movement” have to say about the police officers who ran straight into the danger zone seconds after the marathon explosions, to rescue and tend to the victims of...
View ArticleKILLERS DODGE JUSTICE – Monday November 26 2012
- Police have all but given up on solving the broad daylight killing of standover man Brian Kane – gunned down in a Brunswick pub 30 years ago today. In 2009 there was hope within the force they would...
View ArticleEXTRADITION LAPSE LETS ABUSERS GO FREE – Monday November 26 2012
- A former Catholic brother charged five months ago with hundreds of counts of sexual abuse against children and young adults is now living in Sri Lanka because authorities dragged their feet in...
View ArticleFAMISHED DRIVERS CAUGHT OFF GUARD – Wednesday November 28 2012
- Drivers suffering the midnight munchies have been busted en masse in a cunning police operation designed to catch hungry drug and booze-impaired drivers. Operation McBusted nabbed 95 ravenous drivers...
View ArticleCOMANCHERO BIKIE ARRESTED – Wednesday November 28 2012
- A member of the Comanchero bikie gang has been arrested over the attempted bombing of a south-western Sydney hotel earlier this year. There were about 20 people inside the Milperra hotel when the...
View ArticlePOKIES BOSS UNAWARE MANAGER STOLE MILLIONS – Wednesday November 28 2012
- Managing director Mitchell Koroneos was right to suspect that increased overheads from poker machines were partly responsible for his Victorian hotel chain struggling financially in recent years. But...
View ArticleSCAMMERS BUSTED – Thursday November 29 2012
- Police have busted an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. Computer hackers from a Romanian syndicate got access...
View ArticleCHLOE INQUIRY DENIALS – Thursday November 29 2012
- Police have been forced to deny claims they did not properly investigate the parents of tot Chloe Murphy after her death. Babysitter Ketapat Jenkins, 28, yesterday was ordered to stand trial charged...
View ArticlePOLICE QUIZ AWU AFFAIR WITNESSES – Thursday November 29 2012
- Victoria Police has begun interviewing witnesses in the Australian Workers Union scandal. Fraud Squad detectives have contacted at least two people, including retired Greek-born builder Kon Spyridis,...
View ArticleABUSE SUSPECT QUIZZED – Thursday November 29 2012
- A third person who had been sought over the racist abuse of a French woman on a Melbourne bus has been interviewed by police. A man, 35, from Doncaster East, was questioned yesterday after being...
View ArticleGANGS SPARK CAR THEFT CRISIS – Friday November 30 2012
- Gangland detectives have been called into the fight against spiralling levels of car theft in Victoria. The state’s Organised Motor Vehicle Theft Squad will be merged with the Santiago Taskforce in a...
View ArticleCAR TOT’S MUM PLEADS GUILTY – Friday November 30 2012
- A woman has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her baby daughter who died after being left inside a hot car. Michelle Nguyen, 21, entered her guilty plea at the Victorian Supreme Court yesterday...
View ArticlePOLICE GRILL STAR – Saturday December 1 2012
- An internationally renowned Australian children’s entertainer has been quizzed by police in Britain on suspicion of sex offences. The man, aged in his 80s, was interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives...
View ArticleICE SCOURGE ON RISE – Saturday December 1 2012
- The aggressive drug ice and huge increases in reports of family violence and assaults are behind an extra 27,000 crimes committed in Victoria in the past year. Drug offences have jumped a worrying...
View ArticleCARRUM MURDER PROBE – Saturday December 1 2012
- A murder investigation has been launched into an attack on a man in Carrum Downs. The 31-year-old local man was taken to the Alfred Hospital with head injuries after being assaulted in Cadles Road on...
View ArticleAUSSIE STAR FACES SEX COMPLAINTS – Saturday December 1 2012
- A prominent Australian entertainer was yesterday interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the UK. The man, in his 80s, spent the...
View ArticleBRAZEN RAID ON NAVAL VESSEL – Saturday December 1 2012
- It was 1am on board HMAS Bathurst tied up at the patrol boat wharf in the calm, warm waters of HMAS Coonawarra navy base in Darwin yesterday. The sailor on watch duty, who is in his early 20s, was...
View ArticleMISSING PERSON ALERT – KADE SHIPKOWSKI, FROM LYNDORA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Kade Shipkowski This is a picture of my grandson, Kade Shipkowski, who has been missing from the Lyndora, Pennsylvania area (near Pittsburgh) since Friday. No family members have seen or heard from...
View ArticleWHO CAN IT BE NOW? – Saturday December 1 2012
- Just after dark one night in June 2009, a small crowd gathered in Lane Cove, on Sydney’s north shore, for a special screening of the award-winning documentary “Kanyini”. Hosted by Lane Cove residents...
View ArticleSHARP RISE IN DATA SCRUTINY – December 1 2012
- Australian law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, prompting new calls for tighter...
View Article