Courts & Justice

A large crowd has gathered for a candlelight vigil to celebrate the life of Charlise Mutten who was allegedly murdered by her soon-to-be stepfather while holidaying with her family in the NSW Blue Mountains.Charlise had been staying with her mother and her mother’s fiance Justin Stein in Mount Wilson - 20km north of Katoomba - when the pair…

A man has been charged with the murder of a nine-year-old girl after a child’s body was found stuffed in a barrel and dumped in a river.The girl, who can no longer be named due to a charge being laid, had been holidaying with family in Mount Wilson, near the Blue Mountains.NSW Police Acting Commissioner Karen Webb, Deputy Premier Paul Toole, and…

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in the lawsuit accusing the royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.Recently released documents reveal the Andrew’s legal team is seeking witness accounts from Virginia Guiffre’s husband, Robert Giuffre, and her psychologist Judith Lightfoot as part of…

A man has admitted to murdering an American mathematician three decades after his body was found at the bottom of a Manly cliff and was later linked to a string of gay-hate crimes.Scott Phillip White had originally pleaded not guilty to murdering Scott Johnson whose body was discovered near North Head on December 10, 1988.Watch the full report in…

The Utah police officers who encountered Gabby Petito and her fiancé a month before her body was found in Wyoming made several mistakes, an independent review has found.The review, conducted by Captain Brandon Ratcliffe of the Price City Police Department in Utah, found that the officers who responded to an August 12 incident between Petito and her…

A Californian court has upheld the dismissal of two former LAPD officers who lost their jobs after they were caught out chasing Pokémon Go characters instead of catching crooks.After receiving a call to a robbery in progress at a Crenshaw area Macy’s on April 15 2017, the documents released last week say Los Angeles police officers Louis Lozano and…

A man has been jailed over a terrifying New South Wales highway rampage during which he deliberately rammed another car.The 47-year-old man pleaded guilty to predatory driving after targeting the occupants of a Mercedes in his Holden Barina on the M1 at Ewingsdale near Byron Bay last August.Dashcam footage of the incident, seen above, shows the man…

Prince Andrew is facing the prospect of a trial in a very public civil lawsuit for sexual abuse later this year, after losing his attempt to have Virginia Giuffre’s case against him thrown out.It is an unprecedented situation for a senior British royal - the third child (and reportedly the favourite son) of Queen Elizabeth II - and sets up a…

A man and a woman charged with the murder and torture of an eight-year-old girl in Toowoomba have faced court.The co-accused, aged 50 and 46 years old, have been charged with murder, torture and failure to provide necessities of life.They could not apply for bail and were remanded in custody until March 24 during a brief appearance in Toowoomba…

The US government is prepared to dismiss two perjury charges against Ghislaine Maxwell if her conviction for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuses is allowed to stand, according to a joint letter from prosecutors and Maxwell’s defence team.In the Monday night letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan, prosecutors said dismissing the perjury counts…