By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 19 July 2005, a 16-year-old boy known as DL followed a 15-year-old girl into the carpark of a motel on the Central Coast. It was the first day of school term and the girl was cutting through the property on her way home having just alighted from the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On the morning of 14 February 2013, Jesse Lunn-Reid entered the bathroom at his ex-partner’s home, brandishing a knife with a 15 centimetre blade. The man was enraged because he believed the woman – who was running a bath at the time – had become involved with another man…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 12.30 pm on 23 March 2016, three men in a blue Toyota Corolla pulled up outside of a house in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley. William Er got out of the car, walked over to the residence and knocked on the door. Having ascertained there was no… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In January 2012, former regional NSW solicitor Denise Elizabeth King was retained by a client to represent her in proceedings regarding whether she could take her daughter overseas for a prolonged period with her partner, who was not the child’s father. By May that year, the client had raised concerns… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In the early afternoon of 12 May 2014, a number of Kings Cross police officers noticed a car being driven erratically. The officers stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, Ramy El-Sayed, whose demeanour raised their suspicion. The officers told the driver they were going to search him… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In the early hours of the morning on 8 March 2016, Mr Buddee was asleep in his house in NSW, when he was woken up by his wife’s screaming. Mrs Buddee cried out as she’d become aware that an intruder was trying to break into the house through a… Read more »
Controversial Sydney businessman Salim Mehajer has been refused bail because of his ‘arrogant disregard for the law’. Former Sydney businessman, Salim Mehajer has consistently been in trouble with the law since his lavish wedding in 2015 which featured a fighter jet, four helicopters, a fleet of sports cars and a sea plane … and completely… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Auckland barrister Minkai Huang was struck off the New Zealand roll of solicitors and barristers on 26 November 2014, when the NZ Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found him unfit to practice due to a conviction for theft. On 14 October 2013, Mr Huang pleaded guilty to stealing $9,475,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 1.30 pm on 19 August 2015, Visheshwarajan Reddy was driving his utility in a southerly direction down the Hume Highway close to the Southern Tablelands town of Marulan. The driver was travelling from the Sydney suburb of Leppington to Canberra to visit his children. Five witnesses described… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 9pm on 28 April 2016, Mr Afzal, a shop assistant at the Mini Mart on Victoria Road in Potts Point (pictured) was sitting on a crate out the front of the store smoking a cigarette, when he saw two men wearing face masks approach from across the… Read more »
