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.
Two masked strangers burst into their Perth home armed with a sword and crowbar. Within minutes, one was dead.
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Dean Gibson was sitting in his friend’s Perth lounge room having just commemorated Anzac Day with a special dinner when two large men in balaclavas burst through the unlocked front door, one brandishing a samurai sword, the other a crowbar.
The intruders, Michael Wachipa and Albert Bere, were strangers to the four people inside the Mount Lawley home they targeted on April 26, 2019, looking for money and drugs.
Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, Senator the Hon. Jonathon Duniam
Three illegal timber exporters have been sentenced after pleading guilty of illegally exporting a total of 208.5 tonnes of sandalwood to the value of $3 million at the Perth District court.
The three individuals were convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment but released on good behaviour.
Three individuals pleaded guilty on 18 December 2020 to illegally exporting a total of 208.5 tonnes of sandalwood to the value of $3 million.
The individuals were sentenced in the Perth District court having been convicted on all counts. All three were given terms of imprisonment (2 years 6 months, 2 years 3 months and 15 months respectively), to be release forthwith on good behaviour bonds. They were fined a total of $97,000 for their roles in the deception.