A detective who helped rescue kidnap victim Cleo Smith shared confidential police information about the case with a young journalist he was dating, a scathing corruption report has found. But Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Blaine quit the force before the report was published, which means he will not face furtherContinue Reading
A detective who was central to rescuing kidnap victim Cleo Smith has quit the police force just days before a corruption report about him is expected to be handed down. Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Blaine became an international hero when footage was released by Western Australia Police showing him askingContinue Reading
A man has emphatically admitted in a Perth court to killing a fellow prisoner before he could have his day in court on child sex charges. Evan James Martin, 43, appeared in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court via video link from Casuarina Prison on Wednesday to enter a plea on aContinue Reading
A Perth school has been placed into lockdown, with a teenager, believed to be a former student, taken into custody following a shooting incident. WA Police said their officers were called to reports of shots being fired at Atlantis Beach Baptist College, on Breakwater Drive in the outer-northern suburb ofContinue Reading
The man convicted of kidnapping Cleo Smith in Western Australia’s Pilbara region has lodged an appeal against his sentence. Terence Kelly was found guilty of snatching the then four-year-old girl from her family’s tent near Carnarvon on October 2021. The 37-year-old held Cleo at his Carnarvon home for 18 daysContinue Reading
Six guards at a maximum-security prison for Perth’s youth have been injured in a massive riot, which began after a child hit an officer with a makeshift weapon and stole her keys. The juvenile detainees were being held in Unit 18 youth detention facility within Casuarina Prison about 4pm SaturdayContinue Reading
A woman who believed she could be Madeleine McCann has apologised to the missing British girl’s parents in a 17-page statement, after DNA tests proved she wasn’t their daughter. Polish woman Julia Wendell, 21, claimed in February she had reason to think she was Maddie, who vanished from her family’sContinue Reading
Disturbing details about the time four-year-old Cleo Smith spent held captive by a stranger who snatched her from a tent while on a family camping trip have been revealed. Terence Kelly was sentenced to 13 years and six months in jail in WA’s District Court on Wednesday over a chargeContinue Reading
A date has finally been set for the sentencing of a man who admitted to kidnapping four-year-old Cleo Smith, whose 18-day disappearance gripped the state of Western Australia. Terrence Kelly was arrested on November 3, 2021, following Cleo’s abduction from her family’s campsite north of the holiday town of CarnarvonContinue Reading
The man who abducted four-year-old Cleo Smith has admitted obstructing police in the hours after he was arrested. Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, had previously admitted one count of forcibly taking a child under 16 following the abduction of Cleo, which sparked a massive search as well as headlines around theContinue Reading