A Perth aged care worker is on trial over allegations he sexually assaulted two elderly female residents.
Charlton Hart
A Katanning man who carried a homemade weapon around the streets intending to use it for “self defence” and punched a police officer in the face has been sentenced.
Hannah Whitehead
A woman who verbally abused police officers after calling them to her house while also being found in possession of a large kitchen knife has avoided jail.
A trial has heard a late night tryst between a retail worker and a young mother where drugs were promised in exchange for sex ended in tragedy with her body dumped in Fremantle harbour.
Sarah Crawford
A Halls Head mother who killed her twin daughters after closing her eyes for ‘a second’ before crashing her car has had her prison sentence overturned after winning her appeal in the WA Supreme Court.
A 20-year-old man used a ratchet spanner to strike his former girlfriend to the chin with such force it dislodged two teeth and chipped two others.
Tegan Guthrie
The mother of a Geraldton boy left for dead by a hit-and-run driver is angry the offender waited two-and-a-half years to plead guilty, and only one week before his trial was due to start.
Kate Campbell
A budding Perth boxer who pocketed $37,000 in donations by falsely claiming she had cancer said her partner coerced her into setting up the online fundraising page.
Robert Paul Allen has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge after leaving Matthew Norman Laynton, 51, with deadly injuries in their Maddington home in 2023.
Rebecca Le May
An Albany woman accused of possessing illegal tobacco products and dealing with thousands of dollars of dodgy money has had two charges dismissed and three fresh charges taken to the Commonwealth court.
Jacki Elezovich
An Albany woman who has pleaded not guilty to two fraud charges has made the same plea to a new arson charge, relating to the 2023 incident.
A senior Geraldton Port executive who oversaw a dodgy tender process — then illegally tipped off colleagues about a corruption probe — received a spent conviction after a glowing character reference.
Ben Harvey
Embattled Qantas Group will add to its string of big penalties after budget carrier Jetstar was fined for misleading New Zealand passengers about their rights following flight cancellations or delays.
Cheyanne Enciso
A police officer who was seriously injured after being dragged along the road by a car during a dramatic arrest is in a stable condition in hospital.
Bethany Hiatt
A man accused of repeatedly punching his 25-year-old son and holding him in a headlock told a court he was acting in self-defence.
A woman was threatened and verbally abused by her brother for 13 hours while driving him and a 16-month-old baby to a remote Aboriginal community, which was thrown into lockdown upon their arrival.
The botched underworld killing of an innocent dad in his home was the culmination of a vengeful rampage in Perth’s northern suburbs that terrorised two other households.
Police are investigating whether an accused child sex offender managed to escape a Perth courthouse by switching clothes with another person and pretending to be somebody else.
Caleb Runciman and Jessica Evensen
Two Geraldton men have been charged and faced court after they allegedly removed their electronic monitoring devices in separate cases this week.
Mercanti’s lawyer revealed one of the charges relates to him allegedly attending a Mexican fast food chain.
Caleb Runciman
A gun enthusiast has been found guilty of threatening a veteran cop who led firearm reforms, with the magistrate saying she rejected ‘entirely’ his ‘nonsensical’ defence.
Rebecca Le May, Oliver Lane and Caleb Runciman
A 14-year-old has been charged following a police chase, which ended in a taxi ploughing through the front yard of a western suburbs home.
Jessica Evensen
Police claim the boy was dragged for about 100m and left fighting for life, while the accused fled the scene.
A professional pool player punched a man in the face after winning a $100 game of pool in a Kalgoorlie-Boulder pub.
