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Director of public prosecutions launches appeal against sentences handed down to Thomas Sewell and Jacob HersantGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastProsecutors are pushing for more jail time for two neo-Nazi leaders who attacked a group of hikers in a national park, arguing their original sentences were manifestly inadequate.Thomas Sewell, 31, and Jacob Hersant, 25, were sentenced in...

Sako avoids life sentence for stabbing former colleague to death at her Melbourne home after stalking and harassing her Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe mother of Melbourne woman Celeste Manno, who was stalked and viciously stabbed to death while sleeping in her bed, has vowed to fight to...

Man who stalked 23-year-old Melbourne woman pretended he was experiencing psychosis when he killed her, psychiatrist tells courtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA man who stabbed a young woman to death repeatedly faked symptoms of psychosis while being assessed for a mental impairment defence, a court has heard.Luay Sako,...

Police arrest four men and a boy alleged to be connected to the Finks motorcycle gang and a series of arson attacks on tobacco storesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice have arrested four men and a boy believed to be connected to the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang and a series of arson attacks on tobacco stores in...

Police allege the men are connected to fires at the Altona business, as well as an arson attack at a Croydon tobacco shopFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThree men allegedly linked to a bikie gang have been arrested after a twice-targeted tobacco shop was destroyed by fire and another...

Robert Farquharson’s name has been removed from the headstone of his three children, whom he murdered in 2005Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRobert Farquharson has been stripped of his control over the gravestones of the three children he murdered when he drove a car into a dam in 2005, after a Victorian government intervention.Farquharson is the first...