The weight of the new bail laws hangs heavy at Victoria’s Children’s Court,where young offenders – most of whom are victims of trauma themselves – face their final shot at reform.
It means Victoria will have had at least three different chief police commissioners in 2025,with applications for the permanent role closing this Friday.
Jessie James Tumaliuan allegedly stabbed his estranged partner to death at her Werribee home opposite a primary school.
Police say homicide detectives are still trying to establish the circumstances of the death.
The attack with the machete was one of a string of violent offences over which the teenager was charged including a separate attack on a night nurse in a foiled carjacking months earlier.
Anthony Del Vecchio was sent free tickets and push alerts to keep gambling,sometimes up to $20,000 a day,as he fed a voracious addiction with stolen money from family and friends.
The hours after Elise Hodder’s death are forever etched in her parents’ mind. But Michael and Pauline Hodder weren’t given a chance to have their say in court.
Artist Vincent Fantauzzo and a passerby managed to restrain the alleged thief until police arrived,a court heard on Tuesday.
A lack of police presence at the airport meant officers had to race nine kilometres to arrest a teenager who claimed to be carrying a bomb on board a Jetstar flight.
A 17-year-old boy allegedly boarded a Jetstar plane armed with a long-arm firearm,ammunition and a fake bomb,a court has heard.