The man accused of killing a Sydney school teacher in a Western Sydney home has a lengthy history of assaulting and harassing women, and is currently serving a two-year sentence for stalking and choking his former lover. Ashley Gaddie, 33, a drilling mechanic, is also on bail for allegedly assaulting a different woman, and sexually touching her without consent. He ...

The brother of an NRL star has recounted how he feared his elder sibling would die after being repeatedly punched in the face by police during a bar brawl in the Central Coast, allegedly instigated by a security guard calling the star’s mother a “f–king slut”. Downing Centre Local Court heard on Wednesday how Josh Starling, 20, feared for the ...

A second man has been arrested and charged by police in connection with a high-profile Sydney underworld murder earlier this year. Lee Paul Lambroglou, 29, was charged on Wednesday for his alleged involvement after the fatal shooting of Rami Iskander at his Belmore home on Knox Street early in the morning of May 14 this year. Mr Lambroglou was arrested ...

Ex-Wagga MP Darly Maguire has been charged by Australian Border Force officials over his alleged involvement in the “cash-for-visas” scam that sparked an inquiry by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption and ultimately brought about the resignation of his one-time lover, former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Maguire’s lawyer was served with a court attendance notice ...

A western Sydney grandfather who ran a sophisticated, illicit tobacco operation worth almost $3m with an army of workers, greenhouses, kilns and machinery has learned his fate for the syndicate. At Parramatta Local Court on Tuesday, Imad Fatrouni was sentenced for the illicit Peats Ridge set-up, which cultivated more than 69,000kg of tobacco. Fatrouni’s lawyer told the court his client ...

A gang of knife-wielding teenagers, an alleged large-scale drug supplier and a man whose car resembled an unmarked police vehicle have been arrested as part of a major statewide blitz on knives and violent offenders. Hundreds of NSW Police officers hit the streets across the state over the weekend as part of Operation Foil which focuses on targeting violent offenders, ...

“Sydney icon” Danny Lim has been hospitalised while being arrested by two police with video appearing to show the 80-year-old hitting his face on tiles and bleeding from the head as shocked onlookers gasp and call for an ambulance. Mr Lim is known around the city for his colourful and provocative sandwich boards, which he wears over his chest, that ...

A western Sydney real estate agent is locked in a legal battle with his older brother who claims he is owed about $280,000 from mortgage repayments and improvements to a house they lived in at Constitution Hill. In a civil case before NSW Supreme Court, Andrew John Taylor argues his brother and LJ Hooker Greystanes sales executive Lachlan James Taylor ...

The mother of schoolgirl Charlise Mutten has been pictured for the first time since her daughter’s horrific death almost a year ago. Kallista Mutten, 39, arrived at Campbelltown Court on Tuesday where she was sentenced to 12-month jail term, served as a community corrections order, over her role in a home invasion where two guns were stolen just a few ...

A teenager who underwent brain surgery after accidentally falling 20 metres off a cliff was denied illness and misadventure provisions in the HSC because his surgery did not occur “on the day of his exam”. Now 18-year-old Connor Meldrum and his parents are on a mission to make the NSW Education Standards Authority more compassionate when they decide if students ...