A Vietnamese couple have been jailed over the discovery of multiple elaborate cannabis grow houses, including a home that was so damaged by the illegal enterprise it needed to be demolished.
Shannon Hampton
The State Opposition has promised mandatory jail terms of up to 15 years for anyone caught selling meth if they win the March State Election — the toughest penalties for the offence in the country.
Josh Zimmerman
Former model and reality TV star Alana Billings says she was left winded on her kitchen floor after her ex-footballer husband Chris Billings struck her over the head and punched her in the stomach.
A distinguished former WA cop has been fined for illegally using the police database 180 times to look up his domestically abused daughter and her boyfriends.
Sarah Steger
Mongols bikie Rozbeh Seeross Tangshabani — found hiding in the roof of the gang’s clubhouse during police raids executed in the wake of Nick Martin’s murder — breached a supervision order eight times.
The mining billionaire has been ordered to pay Bianca Rinehart’s legal bills fighting a failed bid for the NSW Supreme Court to block litigation in WA’s top court.
Neale Prior
A legal feud has broken out over what and who is to blame for raw sewage flowing into a chic Kings Square fitness centre.
Muhammed Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed allegedly pretended to be a 15-year-old celebrity to befriend girls in Australia and overseas, before blackmailing them into sending him sexually explicit material.
Daryna Zadvirna
A 32-year-old Albany man has narrowly avoided jail after blowing more than four-times over the legal blood-alcohol limit.
Kellie Balaam
Melbourne man, Richard Pusey, has been slapped with an intervention order relating to allegations he assaulted a woman, and put a noose around her neck.
Gus McCubbing
A second man has been charged with attempted murder over a violent stabbing inside Acacia Prison’s police protection unit, which left an inmate in a critical condition.
A teenager who led police on two high-speed chases through Albany’s CBD has been warned another “Macca’s run” could put her in jail.
A man from Maddington has been charged with a series of crimes including vehicle theft and armed robbery after he allegedly led police on a wild and chaotic chase through Perth’s western suburbs.
A 41-year-old Albany man has been jailed over a crime spree that spanned two years and led to 26 criminal charges.
A 56-year-old Katanning man allegedly threatened to kill his partner on New Year’s Eve after dragging her into a house by putting his hand inside her mouth and grabbing hold of her cheek.
A former cop will front court tomorrow, accused of unlawfully using a police database to search the details of three different people up to 180 times over eight years.
Police have charged four people with more than 180 offences as part of an ongoing investigation into a string of offences across Perth.
Phil Hickey
A prisoner has admitted fatally assaulting a fellow inmate in a one-punch attack in Hakea Prison’s exercise yard last year but has pleaded guilty to a downgraded charge.
The prosecution lawyer responsible for securing the conviction of Bradley Robert Edwards has been appointed a District Court judge, The West can exclusively reveal.
Peter Law
The defence lawyer of Perth parents accused of tricking their three children and doctors into thinking they were sick have threatened to file for the case to be dismissed.
A former Ola driver accused of raping an unconscious woman in the back of his ride-share car and taking photos of her has had his bail varied to allow him to work late shifts at a supermarket.
A truck driver accused of smuggling an infamous quarantine breacher into WA in the back of his truck is set to plead guilty, but he will have to wait for the outcome of the appeal against her first.
A young mother whose toddler was found after going missing for 12 hours in dense bushland in Yallingup last year has tearfully admitted crashing her car just days later after a big drinking session.
Aaron Kirby
A young woman who glassed another female pub-goer — narrowly missing her eyes — at the Brass Monkey Hotel has narrowly escaped jail after it was revealed her victim allegedly threw the first glass.
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