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'Predatory' children's author used fame to groom kids

A bestselling children's author who preyed on girls as young as 11 after visiting their schools to talk about his books has been jailed.

AAP · Feb 13

Ex-speedway racer killed sister's abusive boyfriend

A 27-year-old man told his sister, "No one's going to hurt you again" before stabbing her abusive boyfriend a third time, a court has been told.

AAP · Apr 26, 2024

Bitter love triangle murder victim a 'good father'

Family of a man fatally stabbed by a love rival have told court their son and brother had only wanted to protect his own young son.

AAP · Mar 22, 2024

NZ firefighting pilot left for dead

The widow of a NZ pilot killed on the road after arriving to help fight bushfires says she'd lost their home and had had to fight breast cancer without him.

AAP · Jun 28, 2022

Jury finds 'psychotic' man who killed teenage girlfriend guilty of murder

A Supreme Court jury rejects a New South Wales man's defence that he was mentally impaired when he strangled his girlfriend because he believed she had turned into a "demon".

ABC News · Jun 14, 2022

Girlfriend killer's psychosis continued

Jordan Brodie Miller, who killed his girlfriend thinking she was a demon, continued his psychosis afterwards and saw "glitches" in reality, a jury has heard.

AAP · May 31, 2022

Killer told cops girlfriend was a 'demon'

The jury in Jordan Brodie Miller's murder trial has to decide if he killed his girlfriend because of a drug-induced psychosis or undiagnosed schizophrenia.

AAP · May 18, 2022