05:02 EDT, 28 April 2021
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A Sydney child care worker bound a disabled four-year-old boy s hands together with duct tape and laughed at him before defending her actions as a joke, a court has heard.
Jennifer Helen Wood, 31, on Wednesday appeared before Sydney s Downing Centre Local Court on charges of assaulting a school student while attending a school.
Wood denies the allegations and on Wednesday sought to have the matter addressed under the Mental Health Act due to several mental health disorders including depression and anxiety.
Jennifer Helen Wood, 31, on Wednesday appeared before Sydney s Downing Centre Local Court on charges of assaulting a school student while attending a school
23:33 EDT, 20 April 2021
A senior police sergeant was heard panicking after being probed by police over allegations the theft of her car was faked for an insurance pay out, a court has heard.
Karen Yerbury allegedly obtained a $30,571 insurance settlement after faking the theft of her Mazda CX-5 along with her alleged accomplices - her daughter s athletics coach Gavin Dunn and his associate Glenn Stone in February 2018.
Her daughter Regan Yerbury, a former NRL cheerleader, and the two men allegedly tried to fake the theft of the same vehicle in May 2017 only for officers to then find and return the car, police will allege.
21:22 EDT, 1 April 2021
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Two policemen are accused of luring a 17-year-old girl they met at a train station into a hotel and attempting to rape her.
James Delinicolis, 29, allegedly met the girl on duty while she was waiting for a bus in her school uniform in southwest Sydney in March 2020.
Days later he invited her to the hotel room and one they were there he allegedly attempted to rape her while Angelo Dellosa, 30, held her down.
James Delinicolis, 29, (left) and Angelo Dellosa, 30, (right) were arrested and charged following the alleged incident in southwest Sydney in March 2020
The pair face five charges including attempted rape, misconduct in public office and three counts of recording an intimate image without consent.
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New
Zealand born businessman, Sir Ron Brierley, pleaded guilty to three charges of possession
of child pornography in court in Australia.
Brierley,
83, was knighted for services to business management in 1988.
New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for the process to strip
Brierley of his knighthood to commence.
SYDNEY
– Renowned former corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography in an Australian court on Thursday, his lawyer
said.
The
83-year-old New Zealand-born businessman is best known for waging high stakes
battles for control over some of Australasia s most recognisable companies,