Assault

As the footballer, shirt torn, face bloodied and with a concussion, paced his police cell, a veteran detective's phone started to ring.

After fracturing about a dozen of a man's ribs and puncturing his lung, police officers discussed how to explain what happened to him.

The family of a woman brutally assaulted by police in Sydney has fought to have body-worn camera vision released, in the hope officers will be better trained in responding to acute mental health situations.

After three months on remand, a teen who was refused bail on a Mildura home invasion charge has been released.

Friends of Darwin man Martin Wiberg, 48, are remembering him as a "very gentle soul" after he died in hospital this week.

The guilty man embarked on a two-week crime spree after his relationship soured with his business partner, who he also assaulted in front of the man's children.

The ABC can reveal Eyal Yaffe previously served time for assaulting and choking a woman who he threatened to "stuff in a suitcase".

An Illawarra woman stabbed multiple times by her mother-in-law has told a court she continues to be haunted by images of the roadside attack. 

Police say a man who threatened to kill his wife with a hammer and tried to set fire to a property was just one of dozens of arrests for family violence in a single week in the Dandenong area.

A pregnant paramedic has been assaulted in Melbourne less than a fortnight after the stabbing of a colleague, the union says.

A Melbourne court has been told a school principal who was ambushed by a knife-wielding teacher remains too traumatised to return to work.

Jayendra Shahi was charged with allegedly assaulting two girls at a childcare centre in Sydney's south-west.

Disturbing cases of people wrongly tasered by police on their farm and at school has raised questions over whether officers are too reliant on the devices.

Security camera vision shows the moment a man is stabbed in broad daylight on a London street.

A 25-year-old man was arrested at an address in Belmore on Saturday morning. 

Video of an off-duty police officer restraining a 13yo girl on a Perth train has sparked accusations of excessive force.

A man has been refused bail over an alleged stabbing incident that has left a 53-year-old woman in a critical condition with skull fractures and part of her ear severed.

The ABC rode along with St John Ambulance NT paramedics to hear the impact under-resourcing is having on the workforce, including stories of staff being assaulted on the job.

All charges are dropped against former footballer Wendell Sailor, who is discharged into his doctor's care.

An alleged fuel thief accused of seriously injuring a Perth petrol station worker in a hit-and-run is told he will likely go to prison if convicted of the "extremely serious" charges.