Homicide

Four women have been found dead in separate incidents in South Australia in the past week.

A man has been charged over the alleged murder of a woman in suburban Adelaide — one of four female victims who have died in suspicious circumstances in domestic settings in the past week.

A 21-year-old West Australian man has been charged with the murder of a 27-year-old Broome man known to him.

A youth worker says a 12-year-old girl charged with the murder of a 37-year-old woman in Melbourne last week was failed by the system that should have been looking after her.

Footscray locals say 12-year-old girl who was charged with murder was failed by authorities

Michael Purse was picked up from the Adelaide Casino before being stabbed, punched and kicked at a Kilburn unit in 2019. His body has never been found.

A 25-year-old man faces court charged with the alleged murder of a 63-year-old woman, and the attempted unlawful killing of her daughter, in the Perth suburb of Beckenham on the weekend.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murdering a woman in Adelaide's south last night.

Police are investigating a fatal shooting at Rockhampton in Central Queensland. It's believed the shooting was a targeted attack.

A 12-year-old girl is remanded in custody after appearing in a Melbourne court charged with the murder of a 37-year-old woman in Footscray.

Police say they expect to charge a man with murder over the death of a woman who was found unconscious at an address near Port Augusta overnight.

Homicide detectives have charged a girl, aged 12, with the murder of a woman in Barkly Street, Footscray.

Three people accused of murdering Wangaratta teenager Charlie Gander, whose body was found in a burnt car on Christmas Eve, have today pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Police in England arrest a man on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game.

Sheree Glastonbury, 49, is accused of murdering her former long-term partner Geoffrey McLean, who was reported missing two months before his torso was found in a wheelie bin on a vacant block in Salisbury South in October last year.

The daughter of Stacey Klimovitch, who was fatally shot in Newcastle last year, testifies at the trial of her mother's alleged killer, Jason Paul Hawkins.

An inquiry into 32 unsolved deaths between 1970 and 2010 is told the relationship between NSW Police and the LGBT community "remain complex and at times contentious".

Police inquiries determined Donald Gordon Buckley had died in Moree after changing his identity, three decades after last being seen in Sydney by his loved ones.

Anthony Rowlingson, who shot dead his brother in 2007, has failed in a last-ditch bid for freedom after his application was dismissed by Queensland's highest court.

A jury finds a man dubbed Officer A not guilty of the murder of Dwayne Johnstone, who was shackled at the wrists and ankles when he was shot outside Lismore Base Hospital.

A judge acquits Kylie So of the murder of 71-year-old Robert Dickie in Central West NSW, finding foul play involving someone else could not be ruled out.

The man responsible for the death of 26-year-old Ioli Hadjilyra, whose body was found in a garden bed in northern Brisbane, could be released from prison before Christmas.

The verdict comes after the four-week trial of a man who drove an alleged gunman to and from the home of a Newcastle woman shot dead at her front door.

A jury has heard a planned street fight on the NSW Central Coast lasted less than three seconds before a 13-year-old boy fatally stabbed another 13-year-old boy.

Kathleen Folbigg was released from prison in June after being pardoned over the deaths of her four children. A final report after an inquiry into her convictions was released on Wednesday.