Police are investigating.

Cloverdale man faces court charged with setting man alight

Police were called to the suburb in the city’s east just after midnight when the two men – who were known to each other – became embroiled in an altercation.

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Ricky-Lee Cound died by suicide in a prison cell three years ago.

Hakea inmates called guards,worried about their friend self-harming. Officers checked a water spill first

Ricky-Lee Cound was the first adult prisoner in WA to die in custody who had been formally diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

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Sally Greenham went missing in 1987.

Was this missing Geraldton woman murdered by her husband?

Sally Greenham has been on the missing persons list for nearly 40 years. But her friends,family and even the police who investigated her disappearance believe she was killed.

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Accused North Perth stabber,Jaden Martinovich,18.

How a fake drug deal ended with a Perth teenager’s murder

Jaden Martinovich thought he could pass off bath salts as drugs and make himself $250. Instead,he’s facing life in jail after fatally stabbing a 17-year-old boy in a car park.

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A court sketch of Callum Davies.

‘Her innocence was cruelly taken from her’:Perth man jailed for horror Ellenbrook sexual assault

The mother of a child choked and sexually assaulted as she slept in her bedroom has tearfully described how the crime shattered her family.

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Rachel Van Oyen was released from prison two days after she was sentenced.

WA mum out on bail two days after being jailed over twins’ car crash deaths

Rachel Van Oyen,32,was sentenced to two months behind bars on Wednesday over a crash that killed her seven-year-old daughters.

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Six teenagers have been charged over a spate of homophobic attacks in Perth.

Fresh charges for six teens accused of spate of attacks on gay men in Perth

The group is accused of luring gay men to various locations across Perth via the app Grindr.

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Rachel Van Oyen on her way into Northam Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Halls Head mum jailed over car crash that killed her twin daughters

Rachel Van Oyen only took her eyes off the road for a split second,the court was told,before her car hit a tree and rolled,killing her seven-year-old daughters.

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Brodie Palmer,29,is accused of murder.

‘Sickening’:Perth man accused of murder vomits at sight of schoolboy’s injuries

Brodie Palmer is accused of being involved in the bashing of Cassius Turvey two years ago. On Monday,his murder trial was shown his first interviews with police.

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WA Police have made a breakthrough in the cold case murder of Kerryn Tate,with DNA evidence linking Terence Fisher (left) to the case as a suspect.

‘He’s not going to hurt anyone else’:Family’s relief as suspect identified in Perth murder mystery

Kerryn Mary Tate was murdered in 1979,found dead in dense Karragullen bushland. Almost five decades later,DNA found at the scene has been linked to a man who died in 2000.

  • Holly Thompson