Detectives from the drug and firearm squad’s new illicit firearms team — a specialised group formed to combat the rise in 3D printed guns being used to commit crimes — were heading the investigation.
Caleb Runciman
Weeks before Mark Bombara shot Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc in Floreat, his daughter says she warned police three times about his guns. An inquest will examine the police response and firearm licensing.
Hannah Cross
Clare Testoni, the former partner of convicted paedophile and disgraced children’s author Craig Silvey, has broken her silence for the first time since his sentencing.
A young father has been charged with manslaughter in a shocking case of alleged family violence, nearly three months after the death of his five-week-old baby in Perth’s north.
Jessica Evensen
A 39-year-old man is set to appear in court after police allegedly uncovered child exploitation material during a raid on his inner city home.
Caitlin Vinci
A 14-year-old boy has been charged following a violent attack in Perth’s north-east that left a 13-year-old injured.
Jean Rosina Hunt faced Armadale Magistrates Court on Thursday, nine months after the bizarre incident during which her colleague brought a container of curry to work and shared the dish with other workers.
A woman accused of stalking and attempting to blackmail Greens senator Jordon Steele-John cannot be identified because she has lodged her own complaint with police accusing the politician of sexual misconduct.
WARNING GRAPHIC DETAIL: A man who laughed as he drowned the family dog and clubbed her to death after she was revived has walked free with a suspended jail term.
Tegan Guthrie
The venue’s licensee and manager were hit with heavy fines after failing to properly report 68 incidents over a three-month period.
A Geraldton woman who stabbed her partner in the heart after he walked away from an alcohol-fuelled argument could be freed from prison in just over a year.
Sally Q Davies
Perth tech billionaire Laurence Escalante has returned to court as he continues to fight a string of serious family violence charges.
A girl has been left with serious facial injuries after allegedly being attacked by a woman at a bus stop before being chased into a fast-food restaurant and assaulted again.
Troy de Ruyter
A Perth woman has been charged with stalking and attempting to extort Greens senator Jordon Steele-John.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A sentenced prisoner who threatened a female prison officer at Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison has been handed a six-month jail term.
Isabella Davis
An accused child rapist who filmed the sexual abuse of two girls allegedly contacted one of his victims to reminisce about ‘times that they’ve had in the past’ after a magistrate granted him bail.
Caleb Runciman and Ava Berryman
A prominent WA speedway driver has been put behind bars after being found guilty of grooming and starting a ‘pre-meditated’ sexual relationship with a girl while she was underage.
Melissa Sheil
A prolific paedophile responsible for the ‘grotesque abuse’ of more than two dozen boys will be released into the community in less than a fortnight.
A 48-year-old man is set to appear in Perth Magistrates Court after a late-night police pursuit through Perth’s northern suburbs.
A man has fronted a Kalgoorlie-Boulder court charged with careless driving in Piccadilly which left the alleged victim with a broken rib and fractured ankle.
The mother of a Kalgoorlie-Boulder man accused of domestic violence yelled out during her son’s court hearing after a “horrific, appalling” video of him allegedly headbutting and slapping his partner was shown.
Fisheries officers went undercover to catch a Mid West fisher who pleaded guilty to selling western rock lobster caught on a recreational licence.
An Albany man will be behind bars for a decade after a horrific crash in which he veered on to the wrong side of the road and into another vehicle while “extremely” high on meth, killing a young driver.
Melissa Sheil and Jessica Evensen
The trial of a Great Southern man accused of driving carelessly and causing a crash at a Redmond train crossing last year that resulted in his wife’s death has been adjourned without a conclusion.
Jacki Elezovich
