15:14 EDT, 21 January 2021
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A mother accused of stabbing her private school graduate son has scored a minor legal victory at her first court appearance since making bail.
Samantha Palmer allegedly attacked her son, Hugo Ball, 22, with a 12-inch knife at the family s $3.1million mansion in Sydney s Bellevue Hill at 1.30am on November 21.
Ball had just arrived home at the family s sprawling Drumalbyn Road home about 1.30am on Saturday, November 21, and she was angry he allegedly broke curfew.
Palmer, 55, faced Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday charged with domestic violence wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Samantha Palmer allegedly attacked her son, Hugo Ball, 22, with a 12-inch knife at the family s $3.1million mansion in Sydney s Bellevue Hill at 1.30am on November 21
An ABC presenter has escaped being sent to jail despite being convicted of selling drugs after a police raid uncovered a stash of illegal substances inside his Sydney CBD hotel room. Ashley Norman Hall, 50, on Friday sat in silence in Sydney s Downing Centre Local Court as he was sentenced for a string of drug offences following his December, 2019 arrest. The ABC radio journalist and presenter was tight lipped as he left court alongside his lawyer after he was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order. According to an agreed statement of facts, police found a cache of ice, MDMA, cocaine, cannabis, LSD and the party drug gamma-Butyrolactone along with drug paraphernalia when they searched his 24th floor room at the Meriton Suites on Pitt Street.
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Ashley Hall, right, pleaded guilty to drug supply charges. Photo / NCA NewsWire
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By: Steve Zemek
An Australian radio presenter has escaped being sent to jail despite being convicted of selling drugs after a police raid uncovered a stash of illegal substances inside his Sydney CBD hotel room.
Ashley Norman Hall, 50, on Friday sat in silence in Sydney s Downing Centre Local Court as he was sentenced for a string of drug offences following his December 2019 arrest.
The ABC radio journalist and presenter was tight-lipped as he left court alongside his lawyer after he was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order.
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Police charge two after assault, harassment on train at Blacktown
Two men have been charged after a man was allegedly assaulted at a railway station and passengers were harassed on a train overnight.
Just before 11.30pm (Tuesday 12 January 2021), a 22-year-old man was at Redfern Railway Station when he was approached by two men.
Police have been told one of the men performed a number of sexual acts and punched him in the face, before the pair boarded a westbound train.
Just after midnight (Wednesday 13 January 2021), officers attached to Blacktown Police Area Command were called to Blacktown Railway Station, following reports two men were behaving inappropriately towards a group of passengers on a train travelling from Gordon to Penrith.
Scots College graduate Hugo Ball admits damaging or destroying dad s shutters
Court documents said bizarre rampage occurred after 9.30am on December 27
Ball allegedly stabbed by mum Samantha Palmer at Bellevue Hill in November
Had been living with his father but is now banned from approaching the home
His lawyer Alicia Catron told the court on Wednesday that Ball is in rehab
Hugo s dad Ian told the court his relationship with his son was generally, good