Homicide

Satish Sharma has been arrested along with his wife and son, accused of killing his brother: Melbourne maths teacher Sunil Sharma.

Indian authorities allege Melbourne maths teacher Sunil Sharma was murdered by his brother and dumped in a canal. He had been in India to prepare a property for sale. 

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal dismisses a bid by Daniel Holdom to have his sentence reduced after he pleaded guilty in 2018 to murdering his girlfriend and her two-year-old daughter before dumping the child's body in a suitcase on the side of a remote highway. 

James Handy appeared in almost 150 films or TV series, according to his IMDb page, with his last role being a bartender in Top Gun: Maverick.

The family of Richard Wills, whose body was found in Victoria's north-west at Easter, say police have not kept them updated on the investigation.

Two men are convicted of killing 68-year-old Raymond Smith in his own home in Western Australia's South West during a meth-addled burglary for drugs. 

The murder trial of Mark Sheridan Waden has heard allegations he killed his then-partner Priscilla Brooten during an argument almost eight years ago, after the American former beauty queen learned he was having an affair with a colleague.

A man who previously denied murdering his mother at their home in 2022, and even gave evidence in his own defence, has a last-minute change of heart and pleads guilty to murder.

Police have declared three crime scenes in Childers involving a man who allegedly killed a 78-year-old pedestrian.

Andrew Kearney says he was draining water from his campervan when he was violently assaulted by a man moments after the man allegedly killed a pedestrian.

A man charged over the murder of a woman who was found dead in a Northern Victorian home has been committed to stand trial over her death.

Xiaozheng Lin will spend more time in prison for killing two sex workers in 2022, following an appeal by the prosecutor. 

Murderer Garry Thompson has been returned to custody for 12 months for breaching his parole conditions multiple times.

Emergency services were called to a Lowood residence just before 11:10pm on Monday.

Sheena Fairfield was brutally stabbed to death in the yard of her suburban home in 2022. The man charged with her murder never went to trial due to mental impairment but he could be detained for 20 years.

The bodies of 37-year-old Joanne Teterin and 32-year-old Susan Kay were found in May 2000, and police concluded they had been bludgeoned to death.

Police were called to an altercation at an Ipswich address on Sunday afternoon. 

Queensland Police said the man approached officers and made threats towards them while armed with a firearm, and as a result was shot.

Police will review the testimony of a former youth camp manager who found a number of suspicious items in bushland around the time of multiple disappearances near Newcastle in the 1970s.

Police release images showing the last known public movements of a Hobart woman who was found dead in her home almost two months later.