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Victorian court of appeal also to consider whether triple murder and attempted murder convictions should be quashedErin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justiceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe appeal hearing has resumed.Patterson has joined the court via video link from Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre – the state’s maximum security women’s prison. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/aug/20/erin-patterson-appeal-live-court-mushroom-murders-australia-victoria-ntwnfb Author : Adeshola Ore Publish date : 2026-08-20 00:24:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Foreign affairs minister says timing of decision was ‘especially insulting’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘This bloke is clearly an unacceptable representative’: Sidoti tells Wong to send ambassador homeChris Sidoti says the foreign minister Penny Wong should send the current Israeli ambassador, Hillel Newman, home, but not break diplomatic ties with Israel.The minister, when she sees the ambassador, should tell him that he’s going home. I don’t support breaking diplomatic relations with Israel. I don’t support the closing of embassies, but this bloke is clearly an unacceptable representative.They counted 335 bullet holes

Aalim Ahmed, five, fell from 15th-floor window at tower block family had asked to be moved out of, court hearsAn inquest into the death of a five-year-old boy who fell from a 15th-floor window has heard that more measures could have been taken to make it safer.Aalim Ahmed, who was autistic, died when he fell from a kitchen window at a residential block in Plaistow, east London. His father, Makail Ahmed, rushed from the top floor temporary social housing flat and discovered his body shortly before 6am on 16 May 2024. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/19/london-flat-boy-fell-to-death-inquest Author : Nadeem

Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinctionResearchers have lauded two giant bluefin tunas being caught off the coast of Yorkshire for the first time in more than six decades as a “success story” for marine conservation.The tunas, which were caught a day apart off the coast of Whitby earlier this week, have mostly been absent along the north-east coast of Britain since the 1960s. While a small numbers of the species have been spotted in the waters around Yorkshire in the previous years, the pair were the first to be