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Police search for sports coach after colleague’s body found at CBD school
Police were called to St Andrew’s Cathedral School just before midnight and found the body of Lilie James, a water polo coach in her early 20s. Police are searching the eastern suburbs for her colleague, also a sports coach at the school.
- by Jordan Baker and Olivia Ireland
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Police hunt for two men after ex-bikie shot in Kirribilli
Two men are on the run from police after shooting a former bikie gang member on Sydney’s lower north shore on Wednesday afternoon.
- by Sarah Keoghan and Laura Banks
Tigers winger faces jail for role in robbery
As two men were allegedly being threatened at gunpoint during a home robbery, a promising Wests Tigers winger was waiting outside in a red SUV.
- by Adrian Proszenko
Woman claims boy’s sexual assault allegation ‘fabrication or fantasy’
A 46-year-old woman accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy has taken to the witness box at her NSW District Court trial, giving evidence about that night.
- by Sarah McPhee
‘No place for such hatred’: Sydney killer jailed for maximum of 22 years
Stanley Early was “motivated by a hatred for and prejudice against homosexual men”, a judge said, when sentencing him over the 1987 murder of Raymond Keam in Sydney’s east.
- by Sarah McPhee and Michaela Whitbourn
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‘He’s trying to steal my car,’ man yelled before alleged murder by son
Kenneth Fitzpatrick’s neighbour allegedly saw him bloodied in a fight with his son over car keys before his death at his Berowra Heights home, a court has heard.
- by Sarah McPhee
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Bondi executive allegedly raped woman in Rose Bay apartment, police say
Police allege David Mark Hempton sexually assaulted a young woman he met online in his Rose Bay apartment.
- by Perry Duffin
Man was stabbed, bludgeoned to death with statue in Sydney’s inner west, court told
Bernd Lehmann was killed in 2008, on the day he intended to travel to Germany to care for his mother. A DNA breakthrough caught his alleged killer more than a decade later.
- by Georgina Mitchell
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How a tech fortune helped a man find his brother’s killer, 34 years on
Had Steve Johnson not made a fortune in the early days of the internet, there’s a good chance his brother’s killer may have never been found.
- by Karl Quinn
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Cops thought she ‘masterminded’ a $1.5m gambling scam – then they found her husband
An accountant allegedly set up bank accounts to siphon millions, scammed from the elderly, into online gambling – but police now claim she was under duress from her husband.
- by Perry Duffin
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Reputation rescue: Jean Nassif’s last-minute $300,000 court payment
The fugitive developer has made a last-minute payment to keep alive his defamation case against Sydney radio station 2GB and host Ray Hadley.
- by Kate McClymont