Brendan Abela tried to pay his former partner and her two friends $20,000 in hush money a week after robbing them.
Abela messaged the woman, who had dumped him, offering to pay them all to withdraw their police statements so his charges would be dropped in June 2015.
Court documents show he told her there was no point praying to God as she was the only person who could help him.
The 35-year-old also swore to leave her alone if she complied.
Brendan Abela tried to pay his former partner and her two friends $20,000 in hush money a week after robbing them (stock image)
A teenage girl cried out for her mother after she was dragged inside to be raped by a man who promised to drive her home from a nightclub.
The woman was sitting alone on a couch at the Orange Whip Nightclub in Ringwood, in Melbourne s east after having too much to drink in December 2018.
Kushan Palliyaguruge, 28, hadn t met the woman before but told security he would take her home, claiming she was his girlfriend.
But instead he drove her back to his own house after telling her we ll quickly go to my house for a f k , the Victorian County Court heard.
A scorned woman posted a topless photo of her ex-boyfriend s new partner online after trying to extort a $5,200 ransom out of her.
Stacey Burton, 22, flew into a jealous rage after the father of one of her two children, Codie Carter, moved on with another woman.
The young woman from Ballarat in country Victoria sent a message to the new girlfriend with the warning that her friends would see more than your ugly f kin head on social media. Give me my money back that Codie owes me, Burton also wrote.
Burton followed through with her threat in October 2019, but thought better of it and deleted the post half an hour later - but it was too late.
06:40 EDT, 21 April 2021
A former RAAF pilot who fostered a child and fundraised for hospitals is behind bars over his failed plan to fly 271kg of ice to Australia.
Hugh Gorman, 75, is also a decorated volunteer firefighter. He and his co-conspirator Peter Caluzzi, 61, met as Freemasons more than a decade ago.
They had long marriages, children, and solid and stable jobs.
But motivated by financial gain, they became tangled up in an intercontinental drug plot to traffic 271kgof ice to Melbourne, with a street value up to $118 million.
After a decade with the RAAF, Gorman took on other flying jobs as well as truck driving. A serious crash in 2011 left him with lasting injuries and an inability to take care of his farming property, bankrupting him.
Friends jailed after hatching plan to fly 180kg of ice into Australia on a converted plane
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The men were trying to import 180 kilograms of ice to Australia, which has an estimated street value of close to $118 million.
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A former RAAF pilot who fostered a child and fundraised for hospitals is behind bars over his failed plan to fly 180kg of ice to Australia.
Key points:
The pair tried to import 180 kilograms of the drug ice into Melbourne from the United States
The long-time friends planned to bring the drugs in on a converted plane