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Courts and CrimePremiumWoman’s bail revoked after horrific ongoing abuse to dogs

A convicted dog basher has had her bail revoked after a Kalgoorlie magistrate deemed her an ‘ongoing risk’ to animals because of how she treated dogs while on bail. 

Anneke de Boer

CourtsPremiumMan allegedly raided partner’s super hours after her death

The boyfriend of a young Perth woman who tragically died after routine surgery waited just six hours before allegedly using her phone to sneak into her superannuation account to make himself the beneficiary.

Tim Clarke

Court In The ActTragic detail as mum watched chopper crash that killed child

A helicopter flight over Broome’s iconic coastline started as a way to create memories to last a lifetime. But it quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare when it plunged to the ground after take-off.

Shannon Beven

Court in the ActCommentsInside the barbaric gangland assassination that rocked Perth

Joseph Rodney Versace. A man with bikie links. Shot in the head. Dead — in a shed, north of Perth. Former 7News court reporter Vallance joins host Clarke on Court in the Act to break down the case. 

Shannon Beven

Court in the ActVideoComments‘Pretty bleak’ outlook for top cop amid double murder probe

The future of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb is looking ‘pretty bleak’ following controversial comments she made — and the time she took to make them.

Tim Clarke

‘Frustrating’CommentsAustralia took too long to call for Assange release: Greste

Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – says the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange.

Tim Clarke

Court in the ActThe gangland lawyer who became the biggest snitch of all

LISTEN NOW: He was one of the biggest figures in Melbourne’s underbelly. She was his lawyer. And, as it turns out, the biggest snitch of all. Here is the inside story of Lawyer X.

Shannon Beven

Court in the ActTerrifying fallout after murder of WA bikie Billy Grierson

Up Late host Ben Harvey joins Tim Clarke on the podcast Court in the Act to dissect the murder of Gypsy Joker Billy Grierson and the terrifying fallout that followed. LISTEN NOW

Shannon Beven

Murderous rampageMum convicted of failing to stop son’s school killing spree

A jury has convicted a mother of involuntary manslaughter after her son shot four students dead — making her the first parent in the US to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack.

Heartbreaking claimsPremiumPerth woman faces serious animal cruelty charge

A 27-year-old woman is facing a serious animal cruelty charge, accused of leaving her pets locked up for weeks on end in a squalid home with no water.

Lauren Price

‘Can still be solved’The highly contentious WA murder probe that’s ‘so solvable’

The murder of Corryn Rayney has ‘more clues than Claremont’, according to an independent forensic investigator.

Tim Clarke

Court in the ActLloyd Rayney and the murder case that rocked WA

LISTEN NOW: A toxic marriage on the rocks, allegations of phone tapping, gambling, cheating and murder. On Court in the Act this week we dive into the Lloyd Rayney case, which rocked WA’s legal community.

Tim Clarke

Court in the ActLISTEN: The WA Tinder stalker who waged a campaign of terror

Adam Geoffrey Rybicki looked like any other young man looking for love on dating apps — but behind his everyday exterior lurked a self-confessed woman hater who inflicted ‘campaigns of terror and punishment’.

Shannon Beven

Court in the ActInside the vile history of WA’s most dangerous man

In the last 33 years, Stewart Sinclair Gorham has only spent 100 days in the community. The rest have been spent in prison, locked up for truly hideous crimes. 

Tim Clarke

Listen nowHow Perth mum and daughter were brutally killed on yacht

In this week’s episode of Court in the Act, we look into a shocking case of a mother and her daughter who were killed and their bodies dumped in crocodile-infested water. LISTEN NOW

Shannon Beven

LISTEN NOWWhat we learned from Bruce Lehrmann’s explosive court case

On this week’s Court in the Act podcast, specialist defamation and media lawyer Nick Stagg walks legal affairs editor Tim Clarke through the first week of this explosive trial. 

Shannon Beven

Listen nowExposing the tragic case of murdered toddler Safa

Safa Annour was a striking, smiling little two-year-old girl whose brutal murder shocked the nation. But five years after she died, we still don’t know who killed her.

Tim Clarke

Court in the ActUnmasked: The Barry Cable lawyers and the massive payout

They were the legal team that spent years proving AFL legend Barry Cable was a predator and paedophile. And now they’ve made more legal history.

Tim Clarke

Decades of heartacheLife insurance twist in baffling murder of Perth mum

A 39-year-old mother-of-four left her house in Duncraig on the morning of March 18, 1986. She was never seen again.

Tim Clarke

‘Mr Big’ stingHow undercover cops posed as crims to get murder confession

The killer of a Fremantle woman — who was snared by the same undercover police sting which finally found the man who murdered Daniel Morcombe — will stay behind bars after his parole was refused.

Tim Clarke

Court in the actChilling details surrounding William Tyrrell’s disappearance

A three-year-old boy dressed in a Spider-Man suit goes missing while playing at his foster grandmother’s house in rural NSW in 2014. His name is William Tyrrell and he is never seen again.

Shocking detailsPremiumCourt in the Act podcast reveals WA’s criminal underworld

The West Australian’s new weekly podcast ‘Court in the Act’ reveals the landscape of the criminal underworld and how it ticks.

Tim Clarke

Court in the ActIs this ‘UWA graduate’ WA’s most evil murderer?

Some killers are pathetic. Some are sorry. And then there are a few that are truly evil. Luke Fawcett is one of them. He told the world he was a nice boy. When in fact, he was the devil next door. 

Shannon Beven

Court in the actCommentsLISTEN: Top bikie lawyer slams expense of insignia charges

One of WA‘s most experienced bikie lawyers has labelled the cost of marching dozens of OMCG members into court over tattoos, patches and jewellery as ‘insane’.

Tim Clarke