By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police executed a search warrant at the Woolloomooloo residence of Rachel Jaia Lambert on 29 December 2011. In the apartment, officers found 456 MDMA (‘ecstacy’) tablets, a quantity of cannabis and several items indicating drug supply, including scales and small resealable plastic bags. The total value of the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 11 July 2013, NSW police pulled over a man referred to as ‘EF’ for a random breath test. On conducting a search of EF’s vehicle, officers found a plastic bag containing orange crystals. Seven small resealable plastic bags were also found in the car, all with traces of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On the afternoon of 3 January 2011, John Elturk stole a chef’s knife worth $25 from a Big W store at Carnes Hill. The 37-year-old then made his way to the family home in Lansvale, where he’d been living with his father until shortly before Christmas. The two had… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 2 March 2012, NSW police senior constable David Rixon pulled Michael Allan Jacobs over on Lorraine Street, West Tamworth for a routine breath test. But when the officer told the driver he was about to test him, Jacobs shot the highway patrolman in the chest with a .38… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 22 March 1978, NSW police detective Watson introduced himself to Edward Paul Filippetti and his mother at Port Kembla Courthouse. The detective explained that he had received information about Mr Filippetti having a large number of “buddha sticks” concealed at his Lake Heights house. Buddha sticks are often made… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 9.30 one morning, NSW police officers were at a flat on Murray Street in Port Macquarie investigating an incident, when the phone rang. An officer answered and told the caller the occupant wasn’t home. The caller rang again two minutes later. This time, the officer recognised the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim When Luke Brett Moore opened his Complete Freedom savings account at the Goulburn branch of St George bank, he was unaware just how much freedom the financial institution would afford him. But Mr Moore soon found that he was at liberty to make quite a range of large withdrawals…. Read more »
On the evening of 15 June 2013, Sogeat “Jet” Ouch and Caine Little met in a park in Canley Vale to have a fight. Mr Little owed Mr Ouch a long outstanding debt, and the confrontation was arranged to settle the matter. Little travelled to the park with his two friends, Bill Nguyen and Jimmy Chovnlamontry…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Pierre Mol was a Sydney-based artist, who’d made quite a name for himself. Mol painted the largest mural in the southern hemisphere on the request of the Sultan of Brunei. He also painted the well-known mural in the Rocks of a 1901 photograph of Brown Bear Lane. Today, Mr Mol… Read more »
Attorney General Mark Speakman has announced the appointment Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Gina O’Rourke as a judge of the District Court of New South Wales. The Senior Counsel is due to be sworn in on 30th January 2018. “Ms O’Rourke is an outstanding barrister who has prosecuted more than 200 jury trials in the Supreme… Read more »
