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Police seized a knife from the bedroom of a man accused of stabbing a bartender 13 times, a court heard yesterday. Anneka Donawa, a police officer, told the court that she was involved in the search of Alex Wolffe’s home days after the stabbing. Ms D...

A PHC Zebras footballer has admitted causing the death of a bartender in a fight outside a nightclub. Rakeem DeShields, 26, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court yesterday to a charge of the manslaughter of Dejon Simmons, who was 30, after an altercation o...

A man appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with an attack on another man. Bobby DeGraff, 46, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Graham Lathan with intent to cause bodily harm. The incident is alleged to have happened last June in St George’...

Unpaid fines hit almost $2.4 million last year after thousands of criminal and traffic warrants remained in force. The total owed has risen by about $300,000 over two years although judicial authorities said agencies worked together to find people wa...

A witness told Supreme Court that a man confessed to being involved in an attempted robbery and stabbing while he was held at Westgate. But the witness said Alex Wolffe claimed he did not stab anyone. The witness, who cannot be identified for legal r...

A man caught drink-driving on two successive nights was referred to the pilot DUI court yesterday. Quincy Simmons was clocked at 84km/h on Crow Lane near Hamilton and pulled over by police, Magistrates’ Court heard. He told officers: “I’m trying to g...

A man caught with a knife in the street claimed he carried it to protect himself against a vengeful ex-girlfriend. Police arrested Darren Anglin after they received a complaint, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. Officers saw Anglin, 33, throw up hi...

A man caught on a motorbike while nearly three times the drink-driving limit was disqualified at the time, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. Delano Burgess, 39, was fined more than $3,000 and given a further driving ban after he admitted drink-driv...

Court reports were ordered on a man who admitted threatening police on Front Street. Police were contacted by the staff of a nightclub after Jamal Bascome, 33, refused to leave. The officers approached Bascome, who insulted them. He also told them: “...

A homeless man who threatened to cut off the Premier’s head pleaded guilty to two charges of making death threats yesterday. Jared Gordon, 29, admitted he sent two threatening e-mails to David Burt. But he denied a count of blackmail, and the prosecu...