The career criminal who is at the centre of a political storm after his visa cancellation was overturned pleaded for mercy by telling a psychologist that he was traumatised after cradling bloodied gangland crime lord Tony Mokbel in his arms in jail until paramedics arrived. Kevin Farrugia, who remains inContinue Reading
Sunrise host Natalie Barr has dumped two female politicians from a live interview after the two women had a “box on” over a immigration detainee’s alleged links with a gangland figure Tony Mokbel live on air. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume were muted and sin-binnedContinue Reading
A vicious pedophile who raped and sexually abused boys across two generations has copped a massive 28-year jail sentence, with the judge slamming the 50-year-old predator for “irrevocably” altering his victims’ lives. Leon Ronald Scarffe raped, abused and threatened teenage boys in Adelaide between 1991 and 2020, manipulating them toContinue Reading
It seemed too good to be true — and it was. In scenes akin to the ‘Fyre’ Netflix documentary, which follows a charming man conning partygoers into a fantasy luxury festival on a posh island, David Prince-Popovich flew a group of new friends on a private jet to enjoy theContinue Reading
A “habitual” animal torturer told police he liked to hunt protected ibises while he was high on meth so he could cook and eat them. Tom Quach appeared in Waverley Local Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to torturing an animal to death, two counts of committing cruelty on anContinue Reading
The man behind the daylight shooting of a Melbourne hostel owned by a drug lord’s ex-partner has an “extremely low” intellect, his lawyer revealed in court as she advocates for his release. Mortada “Morty” El-Hassan, 28, returned before the Victorian County Court on Monday for a pre-sentence hearing after pleadingContinue Reading