Rebecca Peppiatt
is a journalist with WAtoday, specialising in crime and courts.
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WA department forks out thousands to hide DV victim after her ex is released on bail
Chloe Wright has been moved to a secret location back in Australia in a bid to keep her safe from the man who assaulted her. The opposition says her case shows WA’s justice system is “broken”.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Hamish Hastie
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WA woman arrested for allegedly bumping her boyfriend up the social housing list
Nadine Marie Smith, 55, is accused by police of helping the social housing applicant bypass ‘a significant number of applicants on the wait list’.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Rachael Clifford
Perth ED doctor suspended for three years and fined for inappropriately touching woman
Dr Kim Mullaley was reprimanded by the Medical Board and sacked after it was determined that he sexually touched an 18-year-old woman while he was working at Joondalup Health Campus in 2016.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Police deploy extra patrols after Perth boy charged over the indecent assault of 14 women
Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy after they allege he indecently assaulted the women as they were walking or jogging in Kingsley and Hillarys.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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Erica was stabbed and set on fire. Her killer has now been jailed for life
Luke Sekkouah repeatedly stabbed mother-of-four Erica Hay to death in her Perth home in April last year, set her body on fire – and then lied to police about everything.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth man found guilty of attempted murder after choking woman
Mihael Vrhovsek, 29, pleaded not guilty despite CCTV footage capturing the moment he strangled the woman repeatedly.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
WA’s youngest deputy CEO of a council accused of fraud, stealing
Sam Anthony Curulli, 27, is accused of corruption and stealing while employed at the Shire of Coorow in the Mid West region.
- Rebecca Peppiatt and Amber Wilkinson
Occult, conspiracy theory podcaster pleads guilty to murdering girlfriend
A Perth podcaster whose show covered “the occult, magick, spirituality, and everything clandestine” has pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend at her home last year.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Alice advised her boyfriend on family law. Then he murdered her in a Perth hotel room
Alice McShera was murdered in a Crown Towers hotel suite by her on-again, off-again partner Cameron Pearson.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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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