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Two extradited from Victoria and charged over $500,000 opal theft at Lake Illawarra
Two men have been extradited from Victoria and charged as part of an ongoing investigation into the alleged theft of opals valued at more than $500,000 during a home invasion in the Illawarra earlier this year.
Shortly after 1am on Wednesday 10 February 2021, four people allegedly entered a home at the Princes Highway, Albion Park Rail, and demanded opal stones from the occupant’s personal collection.
The occupants – a 46-year-old man and 26-year-old woman – complied and handed over a large collection of opal stones valued at more than $500,000.
20:59 EDT, 9 May 2021
A critically injured delivery driver allegedly mowed down by a truck driver in a horror crash was working two jobs to support himself and his girlfriend in Australia, friends have revealed.
Alex Belyi, 25, remains in an induced coma after he was one of five pedestrians hit after a B double allegedly mounted the curb and struck a traffic light at a busy intersection in Melbourne s Southbank last Thursday night.
It s understood he was standing on a curb near his home, waiting to cross the street at the time.
Friends have rallied around Mr Belyi to remain a constant vigil at his hospital bedside as his family are 15,000 kilometres away in the Ukraine.
07:31 EDT, 10 May 2021
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A Melbourne media commentator is set to stand trial over the death of her baby daughter in a bathtub.
Fiori Giovanni pleaded not guilty in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday to the child homicide of Illen Bellinger at Southbank in July 2020.
The 36-year-old mother was committed to stand trial in Victoria s Supreme Court.
She was accused of negligence amounting to manslaughter after allegedly leaving Illen unsupervised in the bath, the court was previously told.
Fiori Giovanni, 36, has plead not guilty to the homicide of her seven-month-old daughter Illen (pictured), who was found unresponsive at their Southbank home on July 18, 2020