When a jury foreman announced a guilty verdict against Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric,there were only two audible sounds in the previously bustling courtroom.
Former North Melbourne coach Dani Laidley is suing Victoria Police after covertly photographed images of her at Geelong Racecourse were circulated online last year.
Jason Roberts was a teenager when he and Bandali Debs held-up 10 small businesses in Melbourne’s east and south in 1998,including restaurants and sports and electronics stores.
The former wife of gangland murderer Carl Williams blackmailed a television producer and arranged for associates to bash him over a reality TV project that soured.
The truck driver who killed four police officers in a road crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway had his jail term cut by 3½ years after agreeing to give evidence against his former boss at trial.
A court has ruled the father of a former choirboy who prosecutors had alleged was sexually abused by George Pell can pursue civil action against the cardinal and the Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne.
Alisha Fagan,charged over a fatal crash in Melbourne’s west,has been bailed to a rehabilitation centre despite police efforts to keep her behind bars.
Former Police Association boss Paul Mullett has failed in his bid to have Victoria’s highest court reopen his civil case that claimed he was the victim of a malicious prosecution by former Victoria Police chief commissioner Christine Nixon.
A man who posed as a COVID-19 compliance inspector to con his way into a woman’s home in an attempt to coerce her into performing a sex act has been jailed for 3½ years.
The man behind the wheel in a deadly drive-by shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub was a reluctant participant and should serve less jail time than the gunman,his lawyer says.