A former athlete denies trying to paint Alan Jones as having a sinister ulterior motive when describing payments he received after multiple alleged indecent assaults. The 85-year-old veteran broadcaster is facing the first of many weeks of a marathon court hearing after he pleaded not guilty to 22 counts of indecent assault and sexual touching without consent. Six men – who cannot be …

Four teenagers have been arrested over an assault in a shop in Melbourne’s west that left a retail worker in a critical condition. Investigators say two boys, aged 13 and 15, and two girls, aged 14 and 15, entered a shop on Hampshire Road in Sunshine just after 2pm on Saturday and stole items. When two staff members attempted to …

A Chinese national has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to bribe a public official with a bag of tea containing $20,000 in cash. The man was apprehended on July 24 as he attempted to board a flight at Sydney International Airport and was extradited back to Queensland on Saturday. The 39-year-old Chinese national allegedly attempted to bribe a Commonwealth …

A secret series of police intelligence reports and internal emails have unravelled the inner workings of Australia’s most wanted alleged criminals on the run in Istanbul. The documents offer a never-before-seen insight into some of the most notorious underworld figures believed by police to be running Sydney’s drug trade from overseas. They have emerged as part of a wide-ranging subpoena …

Panic took hold in a section of a Canberra shopping centre on Friday evening after a group of teenagers brandished knives and a hammer. ACT police were called to the Canberra Centre, one of the city’s major shopping centres, about 6:20pm after reports of youths involved in a disturbance. One witness told the ABC he saw four or five young …

Two teenage boys are facing a string of terrorism charges over separate incidents, including one involving the alleged importation of an ISIS flag. Police charged a 17-year-old boy on Tuesday with allegedly collecting manuals, guides and material promoting ISIS-inspired terrorism. An investigation was launched after intelligence indicated an ISIS flag, destined for an inner city Melbourne address, was imported into …

Warning: This story contains graphic content. An alleged “kill crew” charged with the kidnap and murder of an organised crime network member’s wife in Sydney sent a picture of the woman to her husband before killing her, police claim. Thi Kim Tran, 45, was at her home in Bankstown about 10.30pm on April 17 when a group of men allegedly …

Brittany Higgins will be financially wiped out if she is forced to personally pay Linda Reynolds $341,000 in damages and millions of dollars in legal costs but experts believe her trust fund may be legally protected setting the scene for a fresh legal fight. There’s also the question of how much money is actually left after she was awarded $2.4 …

Infamous cybercriminals known as the Yahoo Boys are now running “scam schools” teaching recruits how to cash in on everything from financial scams to sextortion using deepfake nude and porn photos. Social media platforms TikTok, Scribd, Telegram and Facebook are being used to advertise master classes, according to intelligence experts, while kingpins are setting up physical training rooms in Nigerian …

A drug dealer chasing a $1500 debt may have been hypervigilant when he fatally shot a buyer twice with a double-barrelled shotgun during a botched home invasion, a court has been told. Bahra Youseff killed 30-year-old Adnan Salameh by shooting him in his right thigh and shoulder in front of his partner in their granny flat in the western Sydney …