'Abhorrent male bravado': men jailed for violating girl Two regional footballers who preyed on a 14-year-old girl at a birthday party for their own "perverted sexual gratification" have been locked up. AAP · Mar 19
'Woman's nightmare': man jailed for decades-old rape A court has heard how a victim's life was ruined by a violent rape nearly 40 years ago as her attacker was sentenced to more than nine years behind bars. AAP · Sep 9, 2025
Australian Creator Of ‘Abhorrent’ Child Exploitation Video Game Jailed For 11 Years If the player chose not to perform the abuse, then they 'lost' and the game ended, the judge noted. Pedestrian.tv · Apr 1, 2025
Child exploitation game creator jailed for 11 years A man who created an online game sexually exploiting children as young as 12 has been jailed for 11 years and seven months. AAP · Apr 1, 2025
Monash Health fined $160k over patient's death Monash Health has been fined $160,000 in the Victorian County Court after it failed to ensure one of its mental health inpatients was not at risk of self-harm. AAP · May 16, 2024
Former AFL star cries as he is jailed for drug plot Ex-St Kilda star Sam Fisher will spend up to five years and four months behind bars after admitting involvement in an interstate drug trafficking plot. AAP · May 16, 2024
Mother-daughter scammers claimed $2m for TAFE training A mother and daughter who claimed to be providing engineering training - including to qualified engineers - scammed two Victorian TAFEs out of $2 million. AAP · Dec 4, 2023
Mother spared jail after flinging boyfriend off car A Melbourne woman has avoided prison after she nearly killed her ex-boyfriend by braking while he was holding on to their car, flinging him onto the road. AAP · Mar 8, 2023
Jeffrey 'Joffa' Corfe victim says sexual assault 'infected every aspect' of his life A man who was sexually assaulted as a child by former Collingwood cheer squad member Jeffrey "Joffa" Corfe, has confronted his perpetrator in court, telling him he had been left feeling like he had a "dirty, embarrassing, shameful secret". ABC News · Feb 21, 2023
Scammed man jailed over $1m Tabcorp theft A cash transporting business boss has been jailed for six months after transferring almost $1 million of Tabcorp's money to an international investment scam. AAP · Sep 30, 2022
Rapist who dragged woman off street jailed A Melbourne rapist who dragged a woman off the street and raped her while she waited for a rail replacement bus has been jailed for eight years. AAP · Sep 20, 2022
Melbourne man William Wilson jailed over death of pregnant partner Helena Broadbent A Melbourne man who drove away after fatally injuring his pregnant partner by flinging her from the cabin of his moving ute has been jailed over the death, which a judge described as "entirely avoidable". ABC News · Jun 10, 2022