A Perth mother charged with the alleged kidnapping and assault of a 17-year-old girl is in a category 2 offence – meaning she was already on bail for other serious crimes, a Perth court heard. The 35-year-old woman and her daughter have been charged in connection with the alleged kidnapping in Port Kennedy last weekend.
A 17-year-old boy has died after being hit by a falling branch. Emergency services were called after reports the teenager was injured while felling trees with his father in Dover on Tasmania's south-west coast just after 4pm on Sunday.
Police are asking the public for help in finding teenager Storm Cooper-Ryan, who has been missing since Tuesday. The 17-year-old girl was last seen in Heddon Greta, west of Newcastle, around 4pm on Tuesday.
A teenager accused of a brutal chainsaw attack on a German backpacker will be held in custody overnight while a judge reviews video evidence showing the boy in possession of the weapon. The 17-year-old boy denied attacking the backpacker with a running battery-powered chainsaw at a public restroom in Bluff Point on Monday, but admitted … Read more