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Yung Filly performing at Bar1 nightclub in Hillarys.

Courts & JusticePremiumUK soccer body deletes Yung Filly vids amid Perth rape claim

The UK’s Football Association has pulled a video campaign featuring British rapper Yung Filly after he was accused of sexually assaulting a young woman following a show in Perth.

Caleb Runciman

Damien John Wright is escorted by police.

‘Multiple threats’Perth man fights charge after smashing council windows

A Leederville man accused of smashing more than 60 windows of a local government building and causing up to $120,000 damage has pleaded not guilty. 

Jessica Evensen

How three simple questions will dominate three major WA inquests in the coming months. Left is Lisa Govan, middle is JC, and right is Cleveland Dodd.

Court in the actPremiumTragic clues into three major unanswered deaths in WA

In this week’s episode of Court in the Act - how three simple questions will dominate three major WA inquests in the coming months. And how those hearings will give the dead their day in court.

Tim Clarke

Mark Bombara had been searching for his estranged wife, instead he found her best friend Jennifer Petelczyc, 59 and daughter Gretl, 18, fatally shooting them both, before turning the gun on himself.

Court in the ActCommentsPremiumHorrific reasons why violence against women is rampant

On a quiet and idyllic street in the leafy suburb of Floreat, in Western Australia, the actions of a man intent on revenge sent shockwaves throughout the small community and beyond.

Tim Clarke

Jefferson Do - who has severe autism - was allegedly left inside a car for over an hour by his support care worker as the temperature tipped 40C.

Courts & CrimePremiumCarer admits to leaving non-verbal client in car on hot day

A 37-year-old carer has admitted to leaving his client with severe autism in a locked car on a boiling hot day in Joondalup.

Erick Lopez

Greg Lynn has formally pleaded not guilty to two murder charges. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

CourtMissing campers’ deaths ‘accidental’: court told

A former Jetstar pilot has admitted covering up the deaths of two fellow campers and disposing of their bodies, but denies murdering them.

Liam Beatty

Nick Martin who was assassinated at the Kwinana Motorplex in December, with his wife Amanda Martin

Court in the ActBizarre twist years after notorious WA bikie assassinated

In December 2020 one of WA’s most fearsome bikie heavyweights was assassinated in front of hundreds of people at the Kwinana Motorplex. Now there’s been a fresh twist in the case.

Tim Clarke

Former US President Donald Trump.

Court in the ActCommentsThe reasons why Donald Trump will never go to prison

This month, Donald J Trump became the first president, present or former, to face a criminal trial in the United States. 

Tim Clarke

A woman deemed as a risk to animals has had her bail revoked.

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

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.

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

On board that flight was award-winning tourism operator and Broome identity Troy Thomas, his daughter Mia, her school friend Amber Millar and education assistant and friend of the families Maddison Down. 

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

At least six officers carrying empty forensics bags were seen entering the shed earlier on Saturday morning to scour the inside of the shed for evidence.

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

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.

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

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

‘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

Tony Mokbel outside Melbourne Magistrates Court with his lawyer, Nicola Gobbo.

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

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.

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

Jennifer Crumbley

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.

A 27-year-old woman has been accused of leaving her pets locked up for weeks with no water

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

Lloyd Rayney and wife Corryn.

‘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

Lloyd Rayney and wife Corryn.

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

Adam Geoffrey Rybicki, who has changed his name to Tom Geoffrey Lewandowski.

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

Stewart Sinclair Gorham has only spent 100 days in the community in the last 33 years.

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

Perth mother Avril Croft and her teenage daughter were murdered while sailing around Australia on a yacht.

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

Bruce Lehrmann is suing Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson for defamation.

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

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