By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 April 2009, Simon Monteiro was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the aggravated sexual assault of his then girlfriend in her Bellevue Hill apartment on 2 January 2008. The rape was aggravated because the offender inflicted actual bodily harm before the non-consensual sex assault. The State Parole Authority granted… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Charles Smith had just finished dinner with his mother when he attended the pokies room at the Quakers Hill Inn, with the allotted $50 he’d allowed himself to gamble on the machines. Thomas Maloney, an associate of his, who shared friends in common, was also trying his luck at… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 17 to 18th of December 2014 meeting of some Australian Muslim men in their early 20s was occurring in in the garage of the Regent’s Park family home of Sulayman Khalid, which involved them planning a series of serious terrorist attacks on Sydney’s AFP building and Lithgow Prison. Later… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mounir Seifeddine worked as a kofta chef in a café owned by Tim Abraham in mid-2017. The part-time employee was alone at the establishment on 9 August that year, when a number of NSW police officers turned up to execute a search warrant. On examining the storage area on… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Prior to being taken into police custody, Mr A told his wife he’d stored six gold bars belonging to Mr Y at her mother’s house. On 8 August 2012, on the request of Y, Mrs A removed two bars and a Mr C drove the pair to the vicinity… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Tony Richards was asleep in his unit in the NSW town of Albury at 3 am on 7 December 2019, when there was a knock at the door. On checking, he found Kristopher Llyod was standing at the entrance claiming he had something to deliver, and Richards unlocked the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In May 2014, two drive-by shootings were committed at the Bossley Park home of Wade Martinez. NSW police believed Gewargis Garmo was connected to these incidents. Martinez would not cooperate with inquiries into them. But it’s been suggested he thought to take care of the matter himself. Nine months… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Standard non-parole periods apply to over 40 serious criminal offences in NSW. Introduced in 2003, SNPPs set the state’s criminal justice system apart from all others operating in Australia. SNPPs provide a reference point for a judge in sentencing an offender in relation to any of the crimes the scheme covers,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A young man, who we will refer to as Mr C for the purposes of this article, commenced using drugs in his last year at a high school, as his girlfriend was using them. Eighteen months later, in late 2019, Mr C, who was regularly using MDMA by then,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Written on the outside of two envelopes Christopher Hardy hand delivered to the Charlestown office of NSW Labor MP Jodie Harrison on 3 March 2017 was a message that read, “To the Minister, You are in TREASON, you will be hung until you are dead, No Mercy, No Prisoners, You… Read more »
