A teenager who allegedly went on a window-smashing spree in Burnie overnight has left behind ‘significant damage’. The 15-year-old girl believed to be behind the attack smashed multiple large panes of glass in the multi-storey car park and windows of other CBD businesses. The council, which recently shortened the car park’s opening hours due to […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 12:55pmA coroner has found that a Tasmanian woman who was killed in an ATV crash last year was ‘travelling too fast’. 82-year-old Joy Hayes died after she lost control of the quad bike she was riding on Scenic Hill Road near Huonville on April 22, 2022. In his newly published findings, Coroner Simon Cooper said Hayes […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 11:48amA Hobart couple has finally been reunited with their stolen jewellery, a decade after it was taken from their home. Back in 2013, Robin and Lynette experienced a burglary that resulted in the loss of their precious and sentimental items, including a safe filled with valuable possessions. For years, the belief was that their precious jewellery […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 6:00amAfter using a positive COVID-19 test to skip court four times, a Tasmanian woman has been told by a judge that she must wear a mask for her next visits. In court yesterday, Kirra-Dhe Matson-Clarke claimed she had tested positive to COVID-19 and provided a phone number to appear by phone. Matson-Clarke is facing charges […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 4:00amA Tasmanian member of an outlaw motorcycle gang has been arrested and charged after firearms, drugs, stolen vehicles and cash were found at a property in the Derwent Valley last week. The 56-year-old man is now facing close to 23 charges as the result of a coordinated national week of action as part of Taskforce Morpheus. […]
Tue Aug 8, 2023 - 10:47amA Tasmanian man who was killed in a motorcycle accident in his driveway in 2021 was unlicensed and impaired, a Coroner has found. Andrew Quentin Turner, 45, died as a result of multiple blunt traumatic injuries he sustained after colliding with a parked Nissan Patrol in his Rocherlea driveway on 14 August 2021. In his […]
Mon Aug 7, 2023 - 11:00amUPDATE: A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested after an alleged stabbing in Launceston this afternoon. Police say officers were alerted to the incident on Brisbane Street around 2:25pm on Friday. The male victim received serious, non life-threatening, abdominal injuries after he was allegedly wounded with a knife. “The victim was taken to the Launceston General Hospital by ambulance […]
Fri Aug 4, 2023 - 2:40pmA man has been charged over a deliberately lit house fire that left a family dog with serious burns last month. Emergency services were called to the blaze, which completely destroyed the public housing unit off Wattle Street, around 2:30pm on Thursday 13 July. The 42-year-old man will appear in the court in September charged […]
Fri Aug 4, 2023 - 12:54pmA young Tasmanian man who befriended a stranger on a Saturday night out in Launceston before robbing and stabbing him has been sentenced to home detention. 20-year-old Austin Cornish will spend the next 10 months at home for committing aggravated armed robbery and wounding in June 2022. Cornish had pled guilty to the charges at […]
Fri Aug 4, 2023 - 5:00amA serial drug driver has been sentenced to jail for repeatedly driving while under the influence. Codan James Viney pleaded guilty to five counts of driving while disqualified and six counts of driving while under the influence of an illicit drug. The Launceston Magistrates Court heard on Monday how Viney committed the offences between March and […]
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