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Ryan Crowley and his ex-girlfriend Lauren Dunn.

Former Docker Ryan Crowley to fight assault allegations against MAFS star ex

The former Fremantle Dockers player was arrested and charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend, former MAFS star Lauren Dunn, at a Claremont property.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Naomi Craig, 33, has pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of a student.

Sentencing for WA teacher who gave birth to student’s baby delayed by psychiatric report

The music teacher admitted to sexually abusing one of her students over a 16-month period, starting when he was just 12 years old.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Chloe Wright was assaulted by her ex-partner, who has since been granted bail as he awaits sentencing.

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
Nadine Marie Smith, 55, is accused by police of helping the social housing applicant bypass ‘a significant number of applicants on the wait list’.

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
Joondalup Health Campus.

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
WA Police have charged the boy.

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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Perth mother Erica Hay,30, was stabbed to death, then set on fire.

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
Mihael Vrhovsek, 29, was found guilty of trying to kill his ex.

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
Former deputy CEO of regional council arrested.

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
A court sketch of Cameron Pearson, who was jailed for life for murdering his girlfriend, Perth lawyer Alice McShera, at a Crown Towers hotel room.

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