An Albany prisoner who trashed his cell and caused more than $10,000 of damage has earnt himself another five months in jail less than three weeks before he was due to be released
Melissa Sheil
A man who accused of going 151km/h in a 110km/h zone has denied the charge in a chaotic court appearance where he represented himself and repeatedly spoke over the magistrate.
Hannah Whitehead
A Wheatbelt man who punched his mother so hard he fractured his finger while yelling “you will die” before assaulting a police officer has been jailed for 11 months.
A man who fell asleep at the wheel and crashed an unlicensed vehicle into a power pole, causing it to split and fall on the road, has been fined $1500.
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Adrian Rauso
A former immigration detainee will spend Christmas in jail after a magistrate threatened to mute him if he did not stop asking for bail.
Jake Dietsch
And all four women told the court Lusk’s callous actions had left them so emotionally scarred they did not believe they would ever recover.
Emily Moulton
The owners of the notorious Batavia Motor Inne site face a compensation bill of up to $175,000 for failing to comply with a demolition order, a Geraldton court has been told.
Jessica Moroney
A former AFL star accused of killing two elderly women from the Mid West in a crash on Brand Highway earlier this year will likely spend Christmas behind bars after his bail was revoked for a breach.
A man who kicked a 55-year-old woman in the head in an “unprovoked, violent outburst” which left her briefly unconscious has avoided jail by the “barest of margins”.
Tegan Guthrie
An unlicensed motorcyclist who was driving twice the speed limit along a residential road when he lost control and ploughed into a brick wall killing his girlfriend has been jailed for nine years.
Charlie Goodall fell over in an unstable bath seat and drowned because his mother Danielle Massey wasn’t there to pick him up.
Chris Brooke and Dan Woodland
The UK rapper has pleaded guilty to reckless driving after being clocked at 158km/h by a speed camera last month.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Police said one man broke in and stole a ‘large quantity of alcohol’ from the bottleshop on Friday night, before running off to tell others the store was easy to burgle.
Jessica Evensen and Jenny Schon
She is expected to be sentenced in January.
Sex assault detectives allege he committed several offences between 2021 and 2023 in Darlington and Kalgoorlie.
Caleb Runciman
An Albany man who used “sleight of hand” to smuggle opioids into a maximum security prison and caused more than $2000 damage to a car bonnet upon his arrest, has been jailed.
Police Minister Paul Papalia has blasted elements of the judiciary for being ‘out of step’ after repeatedly granting a former detainee bail.
A former Albany real estate agent and fraudulent sparky has been remanded in custody four days after he was granted bail for allegedly attacking his partner and threatening her dog.
The man accused of murdering Warnbro mother-of-four Erica Hay then setting their home on fire will fight the charges against him.
“Confronting” video footage allegedly showing a man assaulting and throttling his partner before she runs away and jumps a fence has been played in Kalgoorlie court.
A judge hearing a secrecy push by Chris Ellison and Mineral Resources has raised doubts about the usefulness of their lawyer’s reconciliation of sensitive Federal Court allegations.
Neale Prior
The 34-year-old violated five women after either spiking their drinks with MDMA or giving it to them between February and March 2022. Two of those women he also choked.
The Australian Information Commissioner has dumped civil penalty proceedings against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal after the owner of Facebook agreed to a $50 million settlement.
Daniel Newell