Courts and Trials

Elizabeth Struhs, who was a type 1 diabetic, died in her Toowoomba home in January 2022 after she stopped receiving her insulin injections.

A US judge dismisses the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally holding onto classified documents, dealing the former president another major legal victory as the Republican seeks a return to the White House.

Two young women were waiting at a pedestrian crossing when they allegedly saw a man being stabbed and stomped to death, while CCTV captured the alleged murder weapon being tossed into a bike cage, a jury has been told.

Tasmanian Supreme Court judge Gregory Geason would allegedly become "venomous" after drinking alcohol, subjecting a woman to regular verbal abuse and tracking her with her phone. She has given evidence to a court, detailing the alleged abuse she experienced.

Abhijeet Kulkarni will spend up to eight years behind bars after posing as young girls to solicit child pornography from several teenage victims across Australia.

Independent Mount Gambier MP Troy Bell is standing trial in the District Court after pleading not guilty to 20 counts of theft and six counts of dishonest dealing with documents.

A Perth man with a history of family violence is jailed for 15 years for a "prolonged" and "brutal" attack on his partner that only stopped when she pretended to be unconscious.  

Andrew David, Maurice Hawell and Marius Hawell were all found guilty of five counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of aggravated sexual touching and one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault.

Fourteen people, including her parents Kerrie and Jason Struhs, are on trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, charged over the death of Elizabeth Struhs.

Young football player Nick Campo (pictured) died and five others were injured in a major car crash in Perth's southern suburbs at the weekend.

A former Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a nine year-old girl at a WA mission in the 1980s is granted bail.

Donald Morley's body has been found less than three months after he was sentenced for murdering his wife of 69 years at their home. 

The couple were sentenced to seven years in prison in February when a court found them guilty of breaking Islamic law.

A judge has dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin over the shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

A New Mexico judge has dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin over the shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

Australia's spy agency ASIO was the first authority to investigate concerns about Russian-born Australian citizen Kira Korolev. What followed was close monitoring of the army private and her husband, which has now landed them in custody, facing allegations of spying for their mother country.

A "callous" unsupervised learner driver who caused the death of his 19-year-old passenger Chelsea Maddox, then fled the scene, has been jailed for nine years but could be eligible for parole in less than two.

John Griffin, who has previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter, "stomped on" his victim with steel capped boots, the South Australian Supreme Court has heard.

Richard Sione angrily interrogated Jason Galleghan before he began a ferocious assault which resulted in the death of the 16-year-old.

Police allege the 79-year-old man sexually assaulted a female relative who was a teenager between 1988 and 1993. 

Court hears from the alleged leader of religious group and first responder, who says Elizabeth's father was "calm and collected" after the eight-year-old's death. 

On day two of Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial into the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, the court heard from numerous witnesses including gun manufacturer Alessandro Pietta, who produced the weapon used on the set of Rust.

After a botched police investigation and a wrongful conviction, a date is finally set for a coronial inquest into the death of a 21-year-old tradesman, whose body was found on a roadside in Western Australia's far north 14 years ago.

A man charged with three counts of attempted murder of police officers in the state's far-north-west has faced court in Tasmania. 

Michael Stanyer breached consumer law and called debtors "dickheads" and "pathetic lying losers", then told a magistrate he won't be paying his fine.