A Perth woman has been jailed for 18 months after violently beating her six-year-old stepdaughter,leaving horrific bruises.
Kimbengere Gosoge is the first immigration detainee to be sentenced for breaching the conditions of his release from detention last year.
A West Australian judge adjourned a second attempt to reach agreement,three hours after the parties met.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Perth property developer claimed the federal MP was part of a conspiracy with WAtoday reporters to damage his reputation.
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.
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.
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”.