Jamie Freestone
Jamie Freestone is a senior reporter at 9 News Perth.
Teenage rider in fatal Edgewater e-motorbike crash to fight manslaughter charge
A teenager who fatally mowed down a pedestrian in Edgewater on an electric motorbike in July last year has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but not a charge of manslaughter.
- Jamie Freestone and Rebecca Peppiatt
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Perth man jailed for ‘prolonged, ferocious’ City Beach highway attack
Matthew Lawson hadn’t slept for a week when he snapped at work and decided he was going to kill his friend, running him over and severing his leg on West Coast Highway.
- Heather McNeill and Jamie Freestone
- Opinion
- Network outage
The eyes of the cricketing world are on Perth. But about that stadium...
With the naming rights deal due to expire in 2027, the question has to be asked: why does the state government not pull down Optus’ logos permanently?
- Jamie Freestone
Perth brother of exiled crime boss has luxury cars seized after police bust alleged ‘commercial-scale’ tobacco ring
Maytham Hamad, the brother of exiled crime boss Kazem Hamad, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday, accused of operating a “commercial-scale” operation running dirty money and illicit tobacco across three states.
- Hannah Murphy and Jamie Freestone
- Exclusive
- Australians abroad
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson ends fight against drug-smuggling conviction
The 59-year-old, who was a “blind mule”, had until Friday to launch an appeal to the Supreme Court after the High Court in Tokyo last month upheld her conviction and six-year sentence.
- Jamie Freestone
The Australian couple making the most of Japan’s cheap abandoned houses
Brisbane couple John and Miranda Bertram are among a growing number of Australians investing in Japan’s cheap housing market.
- Jamie Freestone
Perth grandmother and ‘blind mule’ Donna Nelson loses drug trafficking appeal
The 59-year-old will be forced to serve a six-year drug trafficking sentence after a Japanese court rejected her appeal.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Jamie Freestone
Ellenbrook teen jailed after Children’s Court backflips on sentence
A Perth teenager who coward-punched a fellow student at an Ellenbrook shopping centre has had his suspended sentenced overturned.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Jamie Freestone
Prosecutors urge review of Ellenbrook coward-puncher’s sentence
Prosecutors want the head of WA’s Children’s Court to review the suspended sentence handed down to a teenager who assaulted a fellow student in Ellenbrook in April.
- Jamie Freestone
Ellenbrook teen avoids jail for shopping centre coward punch
A Perth teenager who coward-punched a fellow student at an Ellenbrook shopping centre has avoided jail time, with the victim’s father labelling the sentence as ‘a slap in the face’.
- Jamie Freestone