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Aidan Becker died at Mernda train station after trying to help a schoolboy.

Girl, 16, charged with assaulting police after Mernda train station hero stabbing

The 16-year-old is the fifth person charged following the death of good Samaritan Aidan Becker.

  • Angus Delaney

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The club was engulfed in flames just after 2am on Thursday.

After a decade of violence, Melbourne’s most notorious nightclub may have met a fiery end

Melbourne nightclub Love Machine, renowned for its history of violence, has been gutted by what police suspect was a deliberately lit fire.

  • Isabel McMillan, Cameron Houston and Marta Pascual Juanola
Joel Leavitt, 32, leaves court on Thursday.

Ex-CFMEU official’s ‘demolition company’ a front for secret bikie clubhouse, police fear

An accused building industry extortionist has been banned from associating with a bikie employee after police suggested Joel Leavitt’s company was a front for the Bandidos.

  • Erin Pearson
Rimoni Muliaga stabbed his wife to death in front of three of their children.

Man jailed for 16 years for stabbing wife to death in front of children

The man attacked his wife in their Melton South backyard in September 2023, months after the couple and their five children relocated from New Zealand.

  • Tara Cosoleto
Police are investigating a fire lit inside the site of an abanoned church, which was slated to soon become a mosque, in the town of Kilmore.
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Suspicious fire guts proposed mosque site in regional Victoria

Police are investigating a fire lit inside the site of an abanoned church, which was slated to soon become a mosque, in the town of Kilmore.

Victoria Police officers and PSO’s on patrol at Highpoint Shopping Centre.

Man allegedly found with gun down pants, soliciting urine from teenagers

Police were called to Highpoint Shopping Centre after the man allegedly asked teenagers for urine. Officers claim they found a loaded gun down his pants.

  • Angus Delaney
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Former senior constable Andrew Craig Adams who worked at Corio police station.

Predatory police officer exploited family violence victims for sex

A former Victorian police officer is facing time behind bars for exploiting his position to contact a string of women for sex.

  • Erin Pearson
The man will serve at least four years for possessing and sharing child abuse material, and grooming children in Australia and overseas.

Melbourne man jailed for grooming children on the dark web

The 78-year-old also recruited young people to have sexual conversations with children and share child abuse material, police said.

  • Angus Delaney
The gutted shopfront on Nelson Place, Williamstown.

Williamstown ice-cream shop gutted by fire in second suspicious blaze

An ice-cream store has again been targeted by arsonists – the sixth suspicious fire on a main shopping strip in the suburb in past few years.

  • Ashleigh McMillan and Roy Ward
Paul Hughan was assaulted on a train in December.

Paul was punched on a train. Getting help was harder than expected

A man who was assaulted on a Metro train says he was shocked to discover that both the emergency intercom and CCTV in his carriage were not working.

  • Patrick Hatch