What we learned, Friday 25 October 2024
With that, we’ll end our live coverage of the day’s news.
Here’s a summary of the main news developments:
Technology company WiseTech Global enjoyed a double-digit surge in its share price on Friday after its embattled founder, Richard White, stood aside, creating a circuit breaker to weeks of damaging news.
The Queensland Liberal National party leader, David Crisafulli, has walked back his campaign promise to resign if crime victim numbers do not reduce under a government led by him, claiming on Friday that he was referring to per capita rates, and not the overall number of victims.
No-grounds evictions have been outlawed in New South Wales with the passing of new laws designed to rebalance power between the state’s 2.2 million renters and their landlords.
A high-profile Sydney man has been found not guilty on two counts of rape, with a jury unable to reach a verdict on three other rape charges.
An “amorous couple” accused of causing major flooding and the evacuation of two Victorian train stations has been arrested.
A sacked Melbourne Victory women’s coach has been jailed and may be deported after raping a woman who screamed for him to stop.
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Police find body amid inquiries into missing man
Police in New South Wales have located a man’s body after an extensive search in the Hawkesbury region on Friday, as a man remains before the courts charged with murder.
Authorities allege Edwin Dobbin, 82, was shot dead some time after he disappeared from south-west Sydney in late September. Nearly a month later, detectives charged a 67-year-old man with killing Dobbin and disposing of his body.
The accused killer, who police said knew Dobbin, was arrested at a home in Smithfield yesterday after allegedly telling authorities conflicting accounts of the elderly man’s disappearance.
After the arrest, police began searching a semi-rural property north-west of Sydney, where they believe Dobbin’s body is buried. Authorities said they would continue the search for his remains today.
The accused man was also charged with hindering an investigation into a serious indictable offence and the unlawful disposal of a corpse. He was refused police bail and is due to appear at Fairfield local court today.
Two missing persons appeals were issued for Dobbin after he was last spotted at Leppington, about 80km from where the search for his body was taking place, early on the morning of 25 September.
On Friday afternoon police said that while the body is yet to be formally identified, it is believed to be Dobbin.
A postmortem examination will be conducted to confirm the cause of the man’s death and a report will be prepared for the coroner.
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