The Carnarvon Blowhole shacks where Cleo Smith was abducted have won at the State Administrative Tribunal after their owners were issued unfair building orders to demolish their structures.
Anna Cox
The jail time handed to Terrence Kelly for stealing Cleo Smith from her parents should be reduced, claims one of Australia’s most fearsome lawyers.
Tim Clarke
Almost two years since Cleo Smith’s terrifying abduction, her mother has married her partner in a beautiful ceremony.
Lauren Price
The mother of Cleo Smith says her child’s abductor wanted a ‘daughter’, as she opened up about the struggles the little girl still faces more than a year and a half after she was snatched.
Kate Purnell
The parents of Cleo Smith, who endured a terrifying 18-day ordeal after being snatched from her family’s tent, have revealed disturbing details of how the little girl is recovering.
Anthony Anderson
The man who admitted kidnapping little Cleo Smith in 2021 is appealing his jail term for the horrific crime.
Phil Hickey
Ellie Smith has broken her silence, expressing her enduring anger at kidnapper Terence Kelly and relief that he will spend more than a decade behind bars for abducting her daughter and holding her captive.
Emily Moulton
A little fighter, stolen by a fantasist. A man who created his own children in his mind — and then stole someone else’s while out of his mind on drugs. That child was Cleo Smith. That man was Terence Kelly.
Col Blanch says he wants Cleo Smith ‘to grow up as a happy girl who meets her dreams in her life’, admitting as a father he could never forgive her abductor.
Shannon Hampton
Cleo Smith’s abductor Terence Kelly has been jailed after it was revealed in court he ‘roughed her up’ after snatching the little girl from her family’s tent at a Carnarvon campsite while high on meth.
The shock of Cleo Smith’s kidnapping spread far from Western Australia, here are how events unfolded in a case that gripped the world.
Police Commissioner Col Blanch says for him the rescue of Cleo Smith was the ‘greatest moment of WA Police history’ and that today’s sentencing is an important day for her family to get closure.
Shannon Hampton and Daryna Zadvirna
The man who admitted kidnapping Cleo Smith — a crime which stopped the State before her miraculous rescue 18 days later — will finally be sentenced next month.
The man who admitted to the abduction of little Cleo Smith from her family’s tent has also admitted to obstructing police in the hours after his dramatic arrest.
The policeman who led the painstaking search for Cleo Smith in the desperate hours and days after she vanished is one of four WA cops to receive Australian Police Medals.
The success of little Cleo Smith’s rescue operation almost a year ago has had a lasting effect on the way police investigate, WA’s top cop says.
It’s been almost a year since Cleo Smith was snatched from her family’s tent. Despite a desire to move on, it’s clear the ordeal still plays on the minds of locals and strangers.
Lachlan Allen
Just days from the anniversary of Cleo Smith’s kidnapping, a crime that turned the international spotlight onto WA, it can be revealed what is being done to the property where the little girl was held captive.
Shannon Hampton and Lachlan Allen
The man who kidnapped Cleo Smith during her family’s camping trip near Carnarvon will face trial for allegedly attacking a police officer in the abduction’s aftermath in February.
Michael Traill & Kate Massey
Terence Kelly — the man who kidnapped four-year-old Cleo Smith from her tent as she slept with her parents at the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon in October last year — will learn his fate in three months.
Sarah Steger
Money-spinning telcos charged WA Police $1 million over the past year to provide information for critical investigations such as the search for Cleo Smith and taking dangerous paedophiles off our streets.
Being the one to announce to the world that little Cleo Smith had been rescued will always be ‘the best memory I’ve ever had in law enforcement’, police chief Col Blanch says.
The man accused of luring a nine-year-old girl from a Doubleview park was being provided a disability support carer unrelated to the criminal justice system, it has been revealed.
Shannon Hampton and Josh Zimmerman
It was a moment that united the country — and Chris Dawson described himself as the ‘proudest Police Commissioner in the world’ when four-year-old Cleo Smith was saved from her kidnapper’s lair in Carnarvon.
Brianna Dugan
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