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Ezra Holt

Ezra Holt

Ezra Holt is a reporter for 9 News Perth.

Jamie Murray.

Hit-and-run driver sentenced to 18 months jail after reversing, driving around dying Perth father-of-two

Analiza Sagang Curtis appeared in WA District Court for sentencing on Friday, charged with the hit-and-run death of Perth father Jamie Murray last year. 

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Glenda Joy McGregor and Craig Silvey.

The woman caught up in Craig Silvey’s child abuse charges

Alongside news the acclaimed Australian author faced more child exploitation material charges was the revelation a 68-year-old woman had also been charged after a WA Police investigation.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt
Matthew Haylett broke his neck when he dived head-first into water at Mullaloo Beach in March, unaware a sandbank lay just beneath the surface.

Perth teenager leaves hospital after horror Mullaloo Beach swimming accident

A Perth teenager has walked out of hospital, six months after breaking his neck in a swimming accident that turned his life upside down.

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A coronial inquest is probing the death of Andre Di Biase at Royal Perth Hospital in 2023. Pictures: Supplied/Getty

Andre was admitted to hospital with schizophrenia. So why was he moved to a non-secure ward?

The family of a young Perth man who fell to his death from a hospital balcony want to know why doctors prioritised treating his tonsillitis over his schizophrenic episode.

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Pasifique Niyonyishi has been jailed for the murder of Colin Norton and attempted murder of Margaret in 2024. Picture: Supplied/9News Perth

Perth teen murdered elderly man as ‘payback’ over hotel squabble

A Perth teenager murdered an elderly man as “payback” for being kicked out of a hotel room he and a friend had booked for a party, a court has been told.

  • Heather McNeill and Ezra Holt
The Supreme Court of WA.

WA man killed by his grandson had taken out restraining order before murder

Ky Drew Smith-Marciniak was raised by his grandfather, Victor Marciniak, but in later years ‘terrorised’ the elderly man before “senselessly” stabbing him to death.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt
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The teenage boy outside court last month.

‘I was in disbelief’: Teenager still traumatised years after girlfriend’s mum stabbed him

A teenager who was stabbed by his girlfriend’s mother says he remains traumatised two years on from the attack.

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Perth doctor Rhys Bellinge.

Perth obstetrician pleads guilty to fatal Dalkeith crash charges

Rhys Bellinge has pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of a young woman and driving drunk after a crash in February this year.

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Monique Ellen Burton outside court on Thursday.

‘Out of sight, out of mind’: WA mum who hid dead baby avoids jail

Monique Burton gave birth in secret at her Geraldton home before putting the baby, who she says was stillborn, in a garbage bag and hiding it behind a sofa.

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Monique Ellen Burton has been sentenced in Perth District Court for interfering with a corpse after she gave birth in secret.

WA woman narrowly avoids jail after giving birth in secret and hiding baby’s body

The court heard the woman concealed the pregnancy from her partner, and quietly gave birth in their lounge while he slept.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt