A gross green blob in Venice’s Grand Canal was due to fluorescein, a non-toxic substance used for testing wastewater networks, according to local authorities. It comes after images surfaced on social media showing a bright green patch around the famous Rialto Bride, near a popular dining area full of restaurants.Continue Reading
A South Australian Deputy Coroner has released a young man’s harrowing ten minute call to a mental health helpline that could have potentially saved his life before he was shot by police. Kobee Huddy, 20, sought the state’s mental health triage service for help as he was “dripping blood” afterContinue Reading
A major Sydney shopping centre was sent into partial lockdown after a suspected bomb scare. Police were called to Penrith’s Westfield shopping plaza at 9am on Sunday morning due to a safety threat. NSW Police said the centre was evacuated “as a precaution” before specialist officers inspected the item, whichContinue Reading
The family of a frail 95-year-old woman who died after being tasered by a cop have spoken out, demanding answers over the ‘unfathomable’ way in which they lost the beloved great-grandma. Their emotional message comes as a former senior police negotiator shone light on the last critical 60 seconds ofContinue Reading
Months after Brittany Higgins participated in a recorded interview with police about her rape allegation, investigators requested she speak to them again. An inquiry into how criminal justice agencies handled the case has heard police wanted to put inconsistencies in her evidence to her. Police were grilled this week aboutContinue Reading
A Greens MP has issued a furious call over the state of policing in NSW after reports the body-worn footage of the officer who allegedly tasered 95-year-old great grandmother Clare Nowland has been seen by a “number of people including non-police”. The Daily Telegraph reported the police officer who dischargedContinue Reading
A lawyer for Network 10 has rejected claims she had a muted conversation with Lisa Wilkinson about her Logies speech during a meeting with the ACT’s top prosecutor. Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC has claimed after he stopped Wilkinson from reading out her pre-prepared Logies speech, and warnedContinue Reading
The police officer who was charged with the assault of a 95 year old great grandmother in her care home, who later died, allegedly uttered three words before he discharged his Taser. Clare Nowland died in Cooma Hospital, in southern New South Wales, on Wednesday. Her death came after anContinue Reading
WARNING: distressing content. A Sydney woman who drowned her four-month-old son in a “deeply irrational act motivated by ideas divorced from reality” believed she was doing something “righteous”, a court has been told. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was on Thursday found not criminally responsible ofContinue Reading
The NSW Police Commissioner has come under fire from a former magistrate for choosing not to release, let alone watch, bodycam footage of an elderly nursing home resident being tasered by police. Senior Constable Kristin White, 33, used force against 95-year-old Yallambie Lodge resident Clare Nowland last Wednesday, when sheContinue Reading