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Jacob Kelly leaves Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Courts & JusticePremiumSentence looms for dad who threatened to ‘do stuff’ to judge

A 31-year-old man has admitted making a death threat against a WA judge who jailed his wife over their son’s bizarre medical abuse.

Rebecca Le May

Mongols bikie David Pye.

Courts & JusticePremiumTrial for accused bikie murder mastermind abruptly ends

The accused mastermind behind the execution of Rebels kingpin Nick Martin has elected not to take the stand and give evidence in his defence as one of the most anticipated underbelly trials came to an end.

Charlton Hart

City of Nedlands Adminsitration Building

CEOsPremiumEx-CEO hits western suburbs council with defamation action

The controversy in an elite western suburbs council has taken a fresh twist as the former chief executive sues the city for defamation.

Matt Mckenzie

A bizarre car-stealing rampage involving kids has unfolded in Kununurra, with shocking video showing a police car being chased by at least one stolen vehicle.

WATCH THE FOOTAGEVideoPremiumWhy WA police officers let kids chase them in stolen car

Eight children — some as young as 10 — allegedly stole cars then chased police during a three-hour crime rampage in a Kimberley town. SEE THE VIDEO

Caleb Runciman

Dayne Brajkovich has been charged with showing his swastika tattoo in public.

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‘Playing dress up’: Top cop slams bikies brazen nazi tattoo

WA’s top cop has described feared bikie enforcer Dayne Brajkovich as a ‘middle-aged man playing dress ups’ and slammed his swastika tattoo after his colourful court appearance resulted in more criminal charges.

Caleb Runciman

The Fair Work Commission has thrown out the Perth office worker’s unfair dismissal claim.

Court & Justice Perth worker sacked for graphic sex talk with colleagues

A Perth office worker who was sacked for leering at his female colleagues and detailing his open sex life with his wife who was a ‘furry’ has had his claim for unfair dismissal thrown out. 

Sarah Crawford

The court was told that multiple high-profile bikies were gunning for Nick Martin’s head.

courts & justicePremiumSeveral high-profile bikies wanted Martin dead, court told

One of Australia’s most notorious bikies put a half-a-million dollar bounty on Nick Martin’s head two years before he was publicly executed — and another had him followed by two masked gunmen for weeks.

Charlton Hart

It was one of the most bizarre foiled drug plots in WA history.

Courts & JusticePremiumTrio learn fate over bungled near-300kg cocaine plot

Three drug runners who capsized a small boat loaded with more than $100 million worth of cocaine in rough seas off Albany have been labelled ‘Keystone criminals’ and handed hefty jail terms.

Rebecca Le May

Shaun Grant Sermon, 34, appeared in Katanning Magistrates Court on a lengthy list of charges.

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Man who headbutted officer given suspended jail term

A Katanning man who headbutted a police officer in the face when they arrived at his house to deal with a domestic violence incident has avoided immediate jail time. 

Jacki Elezovich

Barry Wayne Lawrence has appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court. PIctured is Lawrence as he leaves court

WA NEWSPremiumChild worker charged with sex offences remains on bail

A Department of Communities employee accused of sexually assaulting a boy won’t have to plead to the allegations until February next year. 

Caleb Runciman

Stephen Silvestro back in early 2010.

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Bikie who refused to snitch on Motorplex brawl back in jail

A former senior bikie who went to jail for staying silent over bloody mayhem at Kwinana Motorplex in 2010 now admits that outlaw gangs were ‘the biggest mistake of his life’.

Rebecca Le May

Feared bikie enforcer Dayne Brajkovich appears to have defected to the Mongols.

Courts & JusticePremiumOutlaw bikie’s courtroom message: ‘We’re taking over’

Feared bikie enforcer Dayne Brajkovich has sent authorities a major message while attending court — he’s officially joined a rival outlaw gang.

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Notorious outlaw Dayne Brajkovich will appear in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

New chargesVideoInfamous tattooed bikie Dayne Brajkovich back in court

He has been keeping a low profile but notorious WA gangster Dayne Brajkovich will be back in the public eye when he makes a court appearance today.

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David James Pye in court.

courts & justicePremiumBikie kingpin caught on tape threatening to ‘murder’ witness

The man accused of paying an assassin to kill Nick Martin was caught on a covert listening device threatening to kill a woman and her family if she testified against him in court. 

Charlton Hart

Shaun Grant Sermon, 34, appeared in Katanning Magistrates Court on a lengthy list of charges.

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Katanning man enters mixed pleas to lengthy list of charges

A Katanning man accused of committing a host of offences across a range of Great Southern shires in 2024 and 2025 has entered guilty and not guilty pleas, with his case proceeding to trial. 

Jacki Elezovich

Financial Crimes Squad detectives travelled to the UK to extradite Lucas, who pleaded guilty to 103 offences.

Courts & JusticePremiumGrandma who stole $1.7m from sister’s business learns fate

A grandmother who fled to the UK after stealing almost $1.7 million from her sister — splashing it on overseas holidays, jet skis and property — has learnt been sentenced.

Rebecca Le May

The gun-for-hire who assassinated Nick Martin told the man accused of paying him for the hit that he had lost count of the number of people he had murdered.

Courts & JusticeVideoPremiumBikie shooter confesses he’s lost count of his executions

The gun-for-hire who assassinated Nick Martin boasted about losing count of the number of people he had executed — and felt nothing.

Charlton Hart

Turan William Salis has appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court. PIctured is Salis with his lawyer Demi Thackrah outside court Justin Benson-Cooper

Court & JusticePremiumTikTokker told police he threatened to kill mum for clicks

A popular Perth TikTokker told police he threatened to decapitate his mum in a livestream because he ‘was a content creator’.

Sarah Crawford

An operation targeting illegal weapons netted various firearms in WA.

CrimePremiumPolice make shocking discovery during raids on WA properties

A national police operation has resulted in the seizure of various illegal weapons across WA, including a flamethrower, a homemade shotgun and a rifle stolen in a burglary a decade ago.

Caleb Runciman

A man has been fined $2200 after an altercation with a landowner.

Courts & JusticePremiumProspecting expedition goes south

A Norseman father has been hit with a $2200 fine after his prospecting expedition on a private property led to a physical altercation with the landowner. 

Jessica Antoniou

A man who bombarded his partner with phone calls in a bid to get her to drop charges against him has appeared in the Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & JusticePremiumMan jailed for attempting to pervert the course of justice

A man who bombarded his then-partner with 270 phone calls across two separate time periods demanding that she drop family violence charges against him has been jailed.

Neil Watkinson

A court sketch David James Pye.

Courts & JusticePremiumCourt hears shocking witness details from bikie execution

A statement given to police by the late former son-in-law of murdered bikie boss Nick Martin has been read in court, describing the moment the bikie boss was publicly executed.

Sarah Crawford

Johnn Francis Maksimovic, 54, was sentenced in Albany Magistrates Court for criminal damage or destruction of property and two counts of stealing a motor vehicle.

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Jail time for man who stole two trucks in three days

A Perth man received jail time after he drove a stolen truck from Perth to Albany, and destroyed the gate of an Albany business to steal a second vehicle after he arrived in the city. 

Jacki Elezovich

The boom of a mobile water pump, meant to be secured on a semi-trailer driving the opposite direction, struck through the windscreen and killed the truck driver in July, 2022.

MiningPremiumMining companies fined almost $1m after truck driver killed

Three mining and construction services have been fined more than $700,000 over the death of a truck driver, who suffered catastrophic injuries when part of a pump assembly overhung into his lane.

Claire Sadler