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Crime - Australia

Latest news on crime in Australia from the Guardian

July 2024

  • Eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs in a pink outfit sits on a man’s lap

    Religion, medicine and the case of Elizabeth Struhs: are 14 people responsible for an 8-year-old’s death?

    Court hears that Toowoomba sect members charged with murder and manslaughter of Elizabeth Struhs turned down offers of legal representation
  • Jaclyn Symes

    Amid claims of a ‘youth crime crisis’, Victoria’s approach is working, advocates say

    A ‘small group of kids’ in a ‘small number of postcodes’ are of concern for youth justice experts
    • Woman trafficked from Australia to Sudan describes ‘agonising struggle’ to reunite with her children

    • Australia news live
      Police seek Sydney woman’s partner over alleged stabbing death – as it happened

    • No prison sentence for ‘morally repugnant’ 52-year-old Wakeley rioter who punched police officer

June 2024

  • Travellers wait at a baggage claim carousel at Melbourne airport

    Melbourne airport staff accused of smuggling drugs for organised crime cartels

  • Joshua Creamer

    The man leading the biggest murder investigation in Queensland’s history

  • Amber Haigh in front of a canola field

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    Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 1 – Full Story podcast

  • Maryam Hamka.

    Man guilty of murdering girlfriend Maryam Hamka before burying body in remote Victorian bushland

  • Bondi businessman accused of helping Chinese spies told fleeing Australia would be ‘crazy’

  • Two teens sentenced over Toutai Kefu home invasion that resembled a ‘war zone’

  • Former Melbourne councillor sentenced over ballot tampering that helped him get elected

  • Fake wedding celebrant sentenced over five ‘invalid’ marriages in Victoria

  • Only Carol Clay’s murderer Greg Lynn knows what really happened to her and her lover Russell Hill

  • Sydney bartender jailed for sharing photos of female friends and colleagues on porn site

  • Man jailed for bashing Melbourne partner Jessica Geddes to death before collecting pizzas

  • Charlise Mutten trial: Justin Stein found guilty of murdering partner’s nine-year-old daughter

  • Two NSW police officers charged with assaulting 92-year-old man in Sydney

  • Chris Dawson loses appeal against conviction for murdering wife more than 40 years ago

  • Reports of sexual assault in NSW up 42% in five years, new data reveals

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