Courts and Trials

A man charged over the death of Steven Murphy, whose remains were found in an underground bunker at a property in Adelaide's north, has pleaded not guilty to murder but has admitted to killing the victim.

Prominent Gold Coast surf life saver and former police officer Graeme John Maxwell Byrne, 74, will spend the next five months in prison after being found with images and videos in Interpol's most serious category of child exploitation material.

Salt Ash residents have given evidence at the trial of Elijah Cage, Tyson Stamp, and Max Lowcock alleging hearing a gun shot, then seeing an out of control ute coming around a corner and crashing with ice dealer David King slumped at the wheel.

Canberra prisoner George George has been sentenced to three years' jail over his involvement in a major prison riot at the Alexander Maconochie Centre in 2020 which caused more than $1.6 million in damage. 

The United States says the United Nation's top court should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories as it considers a request for its opinion on the legality of the occupation.

As the coronial inquest into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker resumes today, lawyers for former NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe have foreshadowed a series of objections he will raise when he takes the stand.

A 61-year-old Tweed Heads woman was served a notice to appear in court on one count of "owners must install smoke alarms" over the fire, which killed five boys and their father on Russell Island last year.

A London court hears people living under authoritarian regimes "disappeared" after Julian Assange blended hacking with reporting, "stole vast amounts" of classified documents and published them on his WikiLeaks website.

A man who killed one person and stabbed two others in the Perth suburb of Tuart Hill will be eligible for parole in 20 years, after he was sentenced to life behind bars. 

Belinda Van Krevel, the sister of a man serving life sentences for two high-profile murders, has been jailed again after committing a crime with "disturbing similarities" to a previous offence.

A Perth court hears the 26-year-old man, who drove into the ocean off Dampier, was suffering psychosis and was attempting to baptise his son, not kill him.

Joshua Toole has been sentenced to six years' jail over his link to a commercial drug syndicate, after pleading guilty to supplying 1.8 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Mr Smirnov allegedly admitted officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing on a story to him about Hunter Biden, and his contacts with them were "recent and extensive".

A 19-year-old pleads guilty to multiple charges over the 2022 crash in Wollongong as court documents reveal what happened on the tragic night.

Constable Anthony Woods died after being dragged under a car during a traffic stop in Perth last year.

Stewart Iain Berry was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy and producing child exploitation material.

A 61-year-old Tweed Heads woman has been accused of not having compliant smoke alarms in the home, where six people lost their lives.

A criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to the Eagles' legendary hit Hotel California.

Ruby Franke, who once gave advice to millions on YouTube, could serve up to 60 years in prison. 

Two men have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, prosecutors in the US state of Missouri say.

The family of imprisoned Australian Yang Hengjun reveal he will not appeal his suspended death sentence in China, saying the writer has no faith in the Chinese court system, and that his ill health makes it impossible for him to continue his legal fight. 

The widow of Netflix star Chris "Willow" Wilson is seeking to freeze Matt Wright's assets as the Federal Court considers her bid to personally add the celebrity crocodile wrangler to a civil lawsuit over her husband's death.

An inquest into the death of Jarrad Antonovich at a spiritual retreat in 2021 has been adjourned after a number of fresh witnesses contacted police.

More than 2,500 South Australian public school staff will get first aid training in response to a coronial inquest into the choking death of five-year-old student Lucas Latouche Mazzei in March 2017.

A council ranger has told an inquest into fatal attacks that the dog breed that mauled a newborn to death in 2021 was commonly involved in attacks across New South Wales' Central Coast.