The WA Director of Public Prosecutions has given her bleakest outlook yet, explaining the challenges facing her office as the legal system bursts at the seams.
Two Perth cafe owners, labelled weak by WA Judge, were each sentenced to over seven years in jail for the 2018 rape of a customer who was so intoxicated she could not stand.
Carmel Barbagallo SC appointed a judge of the District Court
Deputy Director of DPP to be part of the judiciary
Appointment fills vacancy left by the retirement of Her Hon Gillian Braddock SC
Attorney General John Quigley has announced the appointment of high profile Senior Counsel, Carmel Barbagallo, as a judge of the District Court.
Ms Barbagallo has 25 years’ legal experience commencing in general practice in regional Queensland before taking on a variety of roles in the ACT, Victoria and Western Australia.
Highly regarded in legal circles, she has spent many years managing and conducting the most demanding, complex and important criminal prosecutions in the State.
Claremont serial killer and sadistic rapist Bradley Robert Edwards will likely die in prison after a Perth judge sentenced the dangerous predator to life behind bars with a minimum of 40 years to be served. For the families of Edwards victims, this day of justice was more than two decades in the making and there was applause from the packed gallery as the sentence was finally handed down in the WA Supreme Court on Wednesday. It is the longest minimum term ever handed down in WA and Edwards will be 88 before he can apply for parole. But it is not the harshest jail sentence ever delivered in the state.
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