By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Detectives from the State Crime Command’s strike force Quinlan raided the Doonside home of Shalin Patel last Tuesday. Police arrested the 22-year-old in relation to his alleged involvement in an identity theft syndicate. The police claim that those involved in the scam ported more than 70 individual’s mobile phones from… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim John Ellis was a senior altar boy at the Christ the King Parish of the Catholic Church in Bass Hill, when in 1974, then Archbishop of Sydney James Freeman appointed Father Aidan Duggan to work at the church. Soon after his arrival, Father Duggan took a special interest in 13-year-old… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Michael Murphy died of natural causes at Long Bay prison hospital on 21 February. The 65-year-old was one of a group of five men found guilty of committing the horrific sexual assault and murder of Sydney nurse Anita Cobby. On the night of 2 February 1986, Murphy, two of his… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A NSW District Court jury found former Australian Taxation Office deputy commissioner Michael Cranston not guilty of misusing his position to benefit his son on 15 February 2019. Following the verdict’s delivery, the 40-year ATO veteran held back the tears in the dock at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court. During… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 15 July 2015, inmates Brandon Moussa and Michael De Gruchy were standing in a corridor close to a public phone box at Parklea Correctional Centre. The pair were out of their cells as it was recreation period. Moussa grabbed De Gruchy, pushed him up against the wall and… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 1 am on 3 August 2013, Allira Holt arrived at Louise Bodeker’s unit on Astoria Circuit in Maroubra to pick up Allira Green, who was about five months pregnant. Green and Bodeker – who’d both been consuming ice – decided they’d both go back to Holt’s place… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 3 March 2014, Nathan Rodgers arranged to supply one kilogram of cocaine to two men. Unbeknownst to Mr Rodgers, he was the subject of a covert police operation. One of the buyers was a civilian participant and the other was an undercover police officer. The three men and… Read more »
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 »
