Sniper's extraordinary court appearance
In December 2020 one WA’s most fearsome bikie heavyweights was assassinated in front of hundreds of people at the Kwinana Motorplex, sparking an unprecedented response from both police and politicians. Taskforce Ravello smashed in doors, raided properties, locked up people in the hunt for Martin’…
Why Donald Trump will NEVER go to jail
This month, Donald J Trump became the first president, present or former, to face a criminal trial in the United States. And the allegation was that he, and his minions, along with the National Enquirer “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election”. A scheme involving a porn star,…
Attack on free speech? Govt. vs Elon Musk
It began with a man, and then a boy. The massacre at Bondi Junction. And the stabbing of a bishop during a Wakeley church service. Both horrific actions were captured in real time, and the images of the knife, of the death, the horror the shock and the grief, then broadcast to the world. The …
16yo death in custody: tragic Cleveland Dodd
Just after 2am on October 12, 2023 an ambulance raced to WA’s main maximum security prison Casuarina. A 16-year-old boy had self-harmed inside his cell at the notorious Unit 18 – the juvenile facility located within the grounds of the adult prison. The teen was rushed to hospital where was pu…
Travis Barnard’s SUPER betrayal
Kimberley Heptinstall was 32, the life of party. Everyone’s friend. She and her partner Travis Barnard met online and got engaged in June 2017. Until, after a planned elective surgery, Kim lost her life. Suddenly, tragically. The loss devastated her family. And left her partner bereaved, and…
Edhouse: Father & son bonded by blood
Blood, violence and death seem to follow the name Edhouse. Father and son Andrew and Robert are both bikies and linked to a string of gruesome crimes – including the disappearance of Kalgoorlie woman Lisa Govan. Andrew Edhouse, one of WA’s most notorious bikies in the late 90s, was a member of …
Death in paradise: 12yo, pilot killed in Broome chopper tragedy
It started as a way to create memories to last a lifetime. An experienced pilot, two excited 12-year-old girls and a family friend on a joy flight over Broome’s iconic coastline. But it quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare as the Robinson R44 Raven chopper plunged to the ground secon…
Joe Versace: A bikie-related shooting?
Versace is a name dripped with glamour, and wealth, and glitz, and fame. But the reality of the death of a man who bore it was a lot grimier than the Italian fashion house which made it famous. Joseph Rodney Versace. A man with bikie links. Shot in the head. Dead – in a shed, north of Perth. …
NSW murders: Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
It’s the case that’s dominated the Australian consciousness. The alleged murders of a couple – Jesse Baird and Luke Davies – by another man. A NSW cop. Beau Lamarre-Condon. A double homicide, in Jesse’s home. In cold blood. With a gun, that was police issue. Jesse Baird was allegedly Mr-Lamarr…
Julian Assange: hero or villain? with Peter Greste
Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – has said the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange. Assange took his final appeal against extradition to the United States to the UK’s highest court…