Courts

An teenager has been sentenced for a nine-minute attack on a woman who was sleeping rough near a public library in Adelaide's inner south last year.

Rory Amon, the former member for Pittwater, stood trial in the NSW Supreme Court this week with the jury delivering its verdict on Friday.

In a fiery end to his cross-examination, Beau Lamarre-Condon has denied the deaths of his former love interest and his new partner were "murder plain and simple".

The NSW Supreme Court has approved a planned climate protest on Newcastle Harbour, dismissing a bid by NSW Police to stop it.

A man who fatally stabbed his cousin during an argument over low-quality drugs has been sentenced to more than eight years' jail.

New details have emerged about diary entries of a 15-year-old Northern Territory girl charged with serious terrorism offences during a bail hearing before a youth justice court, where she named a student as someone she wanted dead.

A South Australian construction company has been fined $150,000 after a 30 tonne wall fell onto a neighbouring house and injured a mother and her baby.

Beau Lamarre-Condon has continued to answer questions after close to a week of cross-examination from the Crown.

The inquest into the deaths of Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc hears new details about the day they died and the gunman's interactions with WA Police weeks before the shooting.

Russia's FSB snatched US journalist Evan Gershkovich in a Yekaterinburg restaurant. What followed was life in a Russian jail cell and being part of a prisoner swap for an assassin.

The ex-wife of a police prosecutor delivered a powerful victim impact statement to the court after he was found guilty of a string of domestic violence offences. 

A coronial inquest into the drowning of a nine-year-old boy has been adjourned after new evidence, including the recording of Triple Zero calls, came to light in court.

Teacher Brody Luke Anderson is banned from working in any NSW public school after taking photos of a naked sleeping man.

Beau Lamarre-Condon sent a message to alleged murder victim Jesse Baird telling him he would not exist after their break-up, a court hears.

Irish national Stephen Roche has pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice for trying to sneak a fugitive drug trafficker out of Australia.

On Thursday, the jury was shown months of messages exchanged between the pair before she died, in which they discussed numerous things.

The burnt body of 70-year-old Merril Kelly was found by firefighters at the Quambatook cemetery in north-west Victoria last year. 

A magistrate scolds the lawyer representing the man charged with the murder of Toowoomba woman Jana Armstrong after he tried to separate an unrelated assault charge from the case.

Victoria's highest court says the evidence needs to remain under wraps, because there is a danger Patterson would face "unfair prejudice" if she is granted a retrial.

Revelations that two AFP officers had to go into hiding from their overseas posts have emerged four years after they targeted a high-profile Australian crime figure.