By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On her father’s passing in 1999, Mary Willis inherited two houses on a street in the Sydney inner west suburb of Rozelle. These were numbers 5 and 7 on a street, while her brother, Martin, inherited numbers 9 and 11 on that same street. But the pair had been… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Clare Nowland, a 95-year-old great-grandmother suffering dementia, was walking around the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in the NSW town of Cooma early morning on 17 May 2023, when the great-grandmother was captured on CCTV entering a kitchen area and picking up two small knives and a jar of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Sean Charney, Peter Whipp and Scott Chandler parked a hired Toyota RAV4 outside an IGA store in the small town of Buxton, southwest of Sydney. The three men entered the store to look around, and several hours later, as the married couple who owned the store, closed up and… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim DP was only 5 years old in 1971, when he alleges he was sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest visiting his parents in the southwestern Victorian town of Port Fairy. Over two visits to the family home in the capacity of an assistant parish priest at the St Patricks… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Daniel Bushell and his half-brother John Tozer met with Ricky Ciano on 11 February 2017 for the purpose of manufacturing illicit drugs at a premises on Harris Street in the New South Wales Central Tablelands town of Oberon, and the latter died after injecting a mix of heroin and… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 December 2022, 18-year-old Bailey Jones was at the Bomaderry home of the family of his 21-year-old cousin, Dominic Saliba, with some other friends. During the evening, Saliba and Jones were said to have started “slapboxing”. Each of the men were then seen to hold various containers filled… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Kin Wah Kwan, a manager of Sugar Babes brothel in the western Sydney suburb of Clyde, entered the room of the establishment where he’d spotted a regular sex worker “lying on the bed, sleeping” at the beginning of his 10 pm shift on the night of 5 June 2022…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The unique aspect of law enforcement is that the state allows officers of the law to legally apply physical force or violence towards civilians, and, in the case of the NSW Police Force (NSWPF), this permission to commit acts of force, otherwise illegal, in the line of duty, is… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim An appraisal of the Berejiklian government enacted two-year drug supply prohibition order (DSPO) pilot scheme, which commenced in May 2022 in four regions throughout New South Wales, has found that although the initiative resulted in a “small number of orders and convictions made”, most stakeholders consulted on its effectiveness… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim As the state’s top judge, New South Wales Chief Justice Andrew Bell, gave the annual opening of the law term address on 6 February 2025, his Honour identified a number of threats to maintaining the rule of law in the jurisdiction of New South Wales, which range from the… Read more »
