Stepmother jailed for bashing six-year-old WA girl over the head with cricket ball stuffed in a sock
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Stepmother jailed for bashing six-year-old WA girl over the head with cricket ball stuffed in a sock

A Perth woman has been jailed for 18 months after violently beating her six-year-old stepdaughter,leaving horrific bruises.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt

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Burglaries,stealing,drug taking,but former immigration detainee is released again

Burglaries,stealing,drug taking,but former immigration detainee is released again

Kimbengere Gosoge is the first immigration detainee to be sentenced for breaching the conditions of his release from detention last year.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
‘It appears we’re heading to trial’:Reynolds,Higgins,Sharaz fail to reach peace deal
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‘It appears we’re heading to trial’:Reynolds,Higgins,Sharaz fail to reach peace deal

A West Australian judge adjourned a second attempt to reach agreement,three hours after the parties met.

  • byJesinta Burton
WA to get first shelter for male victims of domestic violence

WA to get first shelter for male victims of domestic violence

Statistics reveal one in 18 men have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a current or previous partner,while one in seven have experienced emotional abuse.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Jury finds WA mum not guilty of trying to kill severely disabled daughter

Jury finds WA mum not guilty of trying to kill severely disabled daughter

The woman admitted injecting the six-year-old with insulin,but said she did it to incite a medical episode that would get the girl help.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Second man charged with murder over Safety Bay stabbing

Second man charged with murder over Safety Bay stabbing

A 50-year-old man has been accused of stabbing a 30-year-old man to death in a Safety Bay home two weeks ago. A 46-year-old man was also earlier charged over the same incident.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
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Perth carer admits leaving autistic man in car during heatwave

Perth carer admits leaving autistic man in car during heatwave

Tsz Wing Tam had cared for Jefferson Do for eight years and was highly thought of by his family when he left him for hours inside a car on a sweltering January day while he went shopping.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Supreme Court throws out WAtoday-Andrew Hastie conspiracy claim

Supreme Court throws out WAtoday-Andrew Hastie conspiracy claim

A Perth property developer claimed the federal MP was part of a conspiracy with WAtoday reporters to damage his reputation.

  • byHamish Hastie
WA mum claims injecting daughter with near-fatal dose of insulin was a cry for help

WA mum claims injecting daughter with near-fatal dose of insulin was a cry for help

A woman on trial for allegedly attempting to kill her severely disabled child has told a Perth court she was only trying to get the girl admitted to hospital.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Perth wife’s attempted murder by poison trial dropped at eleventh hour

Perth wife’s attempted murder by poison trial dropped at eleventh hour

A woman accused of trying to secretly poison her husband to death has had her trial vacated after prosecutors realised an error had been made.

  • byHeather McNeill
Why you won’t find this woman’s name on the list of Australian victims of domestic violence murders

Why you won’t find this woman’s name on the list of Australian victims of domestic violence murders

Her partner pleaded guilty to doing “an act as a result of which the life,health or safety” of his victim “was likely to be endangered”.

  • byGary Adshead