By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales parliament passed a law on 7 May 2026 that abolished the ability of the courts to consider the prior good character of those convicted of sexual offences as a mitigating factor – in other words, a factor that can lead to a lesser penalty – during… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In response to the findings of the June 2024 NSW Crime Commission Project Hakka report, the NSW government has introduced legislation aimed at preventing domestic violence (DV) perpetrators from using tracking devices to covertly surveil intimate partners, along with outlawing other forms of covert stalking. The NSW attorney general… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Kevin Vazquez checked into the Drummoyne Furnished Apartments on 20 June 2023, and on 21 July, he contacted the manager informing a consignment addressed to an “Alejandro Evans” arriving from the US was his. After arrival, of what was being referred as the “dummy run”, Vazquez took various photos… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mohammed Syed was employed as an assistant accountant by Crosby Textor Research Strategies Results (CTRSR), a subsidiary of UK registered CT Group, in October 2008. He was promoted to CTRSR financial controller in September 2009, and by February 2018, he’d risen to become the financial controller of CT Group,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The legal challenge to the New South Wales government’s December 2025-passed public assembly restriction declaration or PARD law, which allowed the NSW police commissioner to restrict protest marches, was such a high-profile case that much of the state is already aware it succeeded in seeing the impugned provisions struck… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On being approached by several New South Wales police officers in Potts Point on 3 October 2023, Daniel Karlsson admitted he did not have a ticket to be travelling on public transport. On hearing this admission, police constable Moriarty asked Karlsson to identify himself, and as the civilian did,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Timothy John Engstrom was running a business called Bungendore Landscape Supplies, together with business partner Adam Hunter in June 2019, when the latter decided to import a Caterpillar excavator from overseas, whist it had 384 packets of cocaine secreted in the arm of the vehicle. The total pure weight… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales man Hayden Brown appeared before Blacktown Local Court in July 2025, after he’d been arrested and charged with having a concealed knife in public, following NSW police officers having spotted a group of young people wearing dark clothing at about 2.20 am on a Friday morning,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mark Maximos was the director of CCS 136 Castlereagh Pty Ltd (CCS), a supermarket and grocery store, over the period 8 May 2012 to 5 November 2020. In 2016, CCS opened a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Business Transaction Account, with Maximos as the sole signatory to it. But… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 December 2025, the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC called for the removal of Judge Penelope Wass from presiding over a historic sex offending trial then before the NSW District Court, based “on ground of apprehended bias”, after the judge had made a… Read more »
