The Latest Breaking News from Danny Doherty

Sydney underworld figures have been registering stolen cars in the names of unknowing people before using them to carry out heinous crimes, police say.

A Sydney man whose decomposing body was found in bushland northwest of Sydney had previously been jailed for throwing 2kg of meth out a car window.

Police try to track Sydney man Hongli Qi's last movements after he disappeared in May and his body was found by chance in bushland by council workers months later.

Police have charged two people after launching an investigation into the killings of Toufik and Salim Hamzy, who were shot in Sydney's west last year.

MORNING BRIEFING: Detectives reveal CCTV footage of Hongli Qi's movements in May, after his decomposed body was found by council workers in bushland in the Hawkesbury.

In 2014, Youssef Assoum was found shot and stabbed just metres from a south-west Sydney hospital. Now, the man who just months ago was clinging to life has been charged with his murder.

The state's homicide squad boss says using beanbag rounds to shoot out the windows of the car of an alleged murderer in Sydney's eastern suburbs was "proportionate" as they believed he could be armed.

Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed, who was nearly killed in a shooting that took his brother's life in May, has been charged with the murder of a man in 2014.

Gregory John Walker was extradited from Queensland to face charges over the fatal fire in inner Sydney that police allege was the result of a dispute between neighbours. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains images of a person who has died.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says solving a murder is not as quick and easy as it appears on television, as the weekend's double murder of two women adds to a list of unsolved cases.

Tributes are being paid to a Sydney hairdresser believed to be an innocent party caught up in a targeted shooting in the city's south-west at the weekend.