Tag: courts
Smash and grab ends in prison
Two men who drove a car through the front door of a Deer Park service station before stealing cash and cigarettes at knife point...
Four years for ‘shocking’ assault
A Sunshine man who viciously beat another man by stomping on his head outside the state library has been sentenced in the County Court...
Prison for armed crime spree
A man who carried out armed robberies in Brooklyn, Williams Landing and Tarneit in July, 2016, has been sentenced to six years prison.
Benjamin Sweet...
Jail for deadly roadside beating
A Sunshine West man who fatally assaulted a man for parking in front of his house has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Christopher...
Armed robber pleads guilty
A man who robbed a Maidstone bottle shop and attempted to rob supermarkets in Braybrook and Footscray in late 2016 has been sentenced to...
Pub robber’s jail sentence cut on appeal
A man who conspired to rob the Taylors Lakes Hotel and took part in two armed robberies in Fawkner in 2014 has had his...
Former Keilor Heights principal convicted
A former Keilor Heights Primary School principal has been convicted in the County Courtand placed on a two-year good behaviour bond following a major...
Crim confesses to historic crimes
A notorious career criminal last week confessed in the Supreme Court to a series of unsolved armed robberies across Melbourne in the late 1980s...
Bandido loses prison appeal
A member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a man and dumping his body in...
Drug importer refused appeal
A Hillside man who was convicted of importing more than 23 kilograms of methamphetamine in a Chevrolet Impala has had his appeal against the...
Drugs appeal squashed
A St Albans woman sentenced to 10 years prison in 2016 for drug offences had her appeal against the sentence rejected by the Supreme...
One punch assailant escapes jail
A Deer Park man has avoided a jail sentence after twice facing manslaughter charges for a single punch incident that led to the death...
High demand for court interpreters
Sunshine Magistrates Court had the second-highest number of family violence cases requiring an interpreter in 2013-14.
In a submission to the Royal Commission on Family...