By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 15-year-old student named Jessie left her Bega school in early 2018, after she was bullied by another student, both in person and online. The girl’s parents felt they had no choice but to place their daughter in another school, as staff at the current one failed to take… Read more »
By Ugur Nedim and Zeb Holmes The Supreme Court of New South Wales has compelled the Commissioner of Police to serve the criminal histories of prosecution witnesses, despite objections by police. The judgment serves as a reminder that the prosecution is legally required to serve all relevant materials upon the defence. Facts of the case… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 3.30 am on 24 March 2015, Steven Attalla was sitting on a stone wall out the front of a church on Bourke Street in Darlinghurst, smoking a cigarette and sending a text message to a friend, when a police car drove up and parked in a side… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Yarrawonga woman Amber Holt was driving to work on 7 May, when she heard over the car radio that prime minister Scott Morrison was attending the Country Women Association’s state conference at the Albury Entertainment Centre. The 24-year-old Cotton On employee pulled her car over at a Coles supermarket…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mark Kenneth Jenkin was sentenced to almost two decades behind bars last week over the manslaughter of a 56-year-old pensioner. Known as the “monster of Mangerton”, Jenkin subjected Mark Dower to such brutal beatings over the course of a week in March 2015 that the victim died. Something of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 7 February this year, Australian federal police (AFP) and Victoria police executed search warrants in NSW and Victoria that led to the arrest of two US nationals and two Australians in and around Melbourne, while two men were arrested in their south-western Sydney homes. The drug raids related… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Melbourne northern suburbs woman Lydia Abdelmalek was found guilty in Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court in mid-April on multiple crime’s relating to her online harassment of six people. Arrested after her home was raided in April 2016, the 29-year-old is to be sentenced in June. Abdelmalek weaved a complicated online deceit,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Rebecca Assie told two western Sydney women how they could commit welfare fraud. In light of that advice, Sahar El Kaddour applied to receive a Centrelink carer payment and allowance claiming that she looked after Raghda El Moubayed. The deal was Ms El Kaddour would give Ms El Moubayed… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Although, it’s been under threat in NSW over recent years, the right to silence is still a fundamental principle in common law. It allows a suspect to refuse to answer police questions during an interview, as well as refraining from giving evidence whilst on trial. This right reflects that… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The Rocks police began surveilling a Sydney finance company director in August 2005, after officers received a tip-off from a local pet store owner, who’d noticed marks on the man’s face “consistent with rabbit scratches”, as he was purchasing one using his company credit card. At the time, police… Read more »
