Why was 14-year-old girl's murder suspect out on parole? Kelli O'Laughlin's...
The man charged with stabbing a 14-year-old girl to death when she caught him burgling her home had a criminal record dating back 20 years. John L. Wilson Jr would have violated his parole for an...
View ArticleBombay HC protects police chief's tenancy rights
The Mumbai commissioner Arup Patnaik is a relieved man, with the Bombay High Court protecting the eight Chembur tenements of which he is a direct tenant from redevelopment, which would have lead to...
View ArticleMan submits false affidavit in SC, gets five years in jail
A Delhi court sentenced a man to five years in jail for submitting a false affidavit to the Supreme Court in 1998 to save himself from getting evicted from the house, which he had taken on rent. The...
View ArticleKiller appeals conviction in ring-theft slaying
United Nations gang killer Michael Newman has filed an appeal of his conviction for the 2004 murder of Marc Rozen during a botched West End robbery. Newman was sentenced in February to life in prison...
View ArticleHC disposes of IPCL's petition against eviction from Air India building
Seventeen years after Air-India issued a notice of termination to Indian Petroleum Corporation Ltd (IPCL) to vacate its office in multi-storey Air India building at Nariman Point in Mumbai, the Bombay...
View ArticleNotorious crim back behind bars
Notorious criminal Matthew James Massey is back behind bars after his parole was revoked, despite arguing a cat allergy had made it impossible to report to authorities on one occasion. The convicted...
View ArticleMassey gets bail after jail inmate backs his story
Parolee Matthew James Massey, who says another man left him in possession of a stolen bike, is out on bail after another inmate signed a statutory declaration backing his story. The fitness instructor...
View ArticleEvicted for bond blunder, $30 debt
An Invercargill family facing eviction today over a bond blunder, and who have nowhere else to go, are urging others to know their rights and not make the same mistakes. Brent Webster said the problem...
View ArticleEvicting a tenant
EVICTING a tenant is probably one of the most difficult tasks faced by landlords of properties governed by the Rent Restriction Act (hereafter referred to as "the Act"). Quite often, a landlord may...
View ArticleRatbag public housing tenants thrown on to the street under tough new laws
DOZENS of public housing tenants have been turfed out of their taxpayer-funded homes in just four months following the rollout of a tough new three strikes bad behaviour policy. And the Newman...
View ArticleKidnapper duo mending their ways, court told
One of them has developed notoriety as a ''tough guy, a hard-man'' who commands the respect of guards and fellow inmates at the territory's jail. The other has more than 50 black marks against his...
View ArticlePrison "hard-man" pleads guilty to possessing stolen goods
Serial crook Matthew James Massey’s fate is once again in the hands of parole authorities after he pleaded guilty to possessing stolen property this morning. But the office of the Director of Public...
View ArticleDrug-free 'fitness freak' Massey tells court he was 'ripped off'
Parolee Matthew James Massey says a complete stranger left him hanging in possession of a stolen motorcycle and a bag full of identification cards. But the self-described ''fitness freak'' has lost a...
View ArticleKiller Instincts trainer on bail
Parolee and fitness instructor Matthew James Massey is again free, this time on bail. Massey is fighting allegations he possessed stolen property – a motorcycle and a bag of ID cards - and possessed...
View ArticleTime to set up Tenancy Act
RENTAL ISSUES: Pretam argues that as more and more people rent due to skyrocketing house prices, now is the right time to set up an Act to deal with tenancies The need to have a Residential Tenancy...
View ArticleThe big stories
MURDER MOST FOUL After years without a murder conviction, the territory suddenly had two. In March, Scott Alexander McDougall, 37, was found guilty of one of Canberra’s most shocking murders, killing...
View ArticleMassey 'aware of actions'
A court has been told convicted murderer Rebecca Anne Massey has shown little remorse for the fatal stabbing of Elizabeth Booshand outside a Charnwood chicken shop in 2008. The ACT Supreme Court also...
View ArticleMassey had undiagnosed bipolar disorder, court told
A court has been told convicted killer Rebecca Anne Massey has shown little remorse for the murder of Elizabeth Booshand outside a Charnwood chicken shop in 2008. The ACT Supreme Court also heard...
View ArticleBooshand a 'rose in a concrete garden'
Murder victim Elizabeth Booshand's daughters broke down in tears as they told the ACT Supreme Court that their mother was a "rose in a concrete garden" who lived for her family. The court also heard...
View ArticleArmed robber tells of love, drugs and prison politics
Armed robber and one-time model Janna Sladic says the dream she shared with her former lover, "spectacularly unsuccessful criminal" Matthew Massey, is over. Sladic was once a promising...
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