Crime

Police believe former Network 10 host Jesse Baird can help over the disappearance of his 29-year-old partner, whose possessions were found in a Sydney skip-bin.

Fake fashion has become big business but most buyers have no idea who is behind it. In Foreign Correspondent's season return for 2024, reporter Naomi Selvaratnam investigates the shadowy world of the counterfeit industry and its links to organised crime, money laundering and even terrorism.

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 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. 

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".

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

Mark Haydon, who was convicted of seven counts of assisting the Snowtown murderers, will be sent to the Adelaide pre-release centre after being granted parole.

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.

NSW Police say mother and son were killed in martial arts centre, then another man was killed at a separate location before alleged killer presented himself to Westmead hospital.

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

Police have charged Kwang Kyung Yoo with three counts of murder after the discovery of the bodies of a husband, wife and their child in two separate locations in Sydney on Tuesday.

Crime data extracted by the ABC shows big spikes in arson offences across New South Wales, with some regional areas reporting rates up to eight times the state average.

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 Queensland government has extended a program which sends serial repeat offenders to remote locations in a bid to address the state's youth crime issues and take pressure off the juvenile detention system.

Police say the body of Abdul Ezedi has likely been found after he allegedly threw corrosive chemicals at a woman and her two daughters.

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. 

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny spent his final weeks in the "Polar Wolf" penal colony. From the remote location north of the Arctic Circle, he was able to share stories of the conditions he faced in one of Russia's harshest prisons.  

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll became the first woman to head the Queensland Police Service in 2019 after rising to prominence as the operations commander for Australia's largest peacetime security operation.

South Australia's parole board is considering an application to release Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon, on the same day the state government has rushed legal changes through parliament.

Multiple crime scenes have been established in western Sydney after the discovery of three bodies.

A crime scene has been established after the discovery of three bodies at two separate locations in Western Sydney.

The 41-year-old businesswoman was arrested at her multi-million-dollar acreage home in Brisbane's south last month and charged in connection with an attempt to traffic drugs from Papua New Guinea into Queensland.

The body of a man was located in Baulkham Hills, while two other bodies, a woman and a child, were found inside a martial arts studio in North Parramatta.