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A 42-year-old man who repeatedly rubbed the thigh of an 18-year-old girl in Sydney’s east has failed to have the case dealt with on mental health grounds.
07:52 EDT, 3 May 2021 Former AFL footballer Daniel Menzel has faced a court accused of twice unlawfully sexually touching a woman in his Bondi Beach home. The former Sydney Swans player, 29, has pleaded not guilty to both charges after leaving the Bondi Hotel with the woman and walking to his home in November 2019. The woman came to in a state of 'somewhat confusion' to find Menzel on top of her, pinning her arms above her head and kissing her, police prosecutor Nicole McMahon told the Downing Centre Local Court on Monday. The former Geelong and Sydney forward then got off the woman and the...
Deadly rampage in Bega sparked by missing motorbike: court We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A troubled 20-year-old who flew into a rage when he couldn't find his motorbike and went on a deadly rampage, killing his grandmother and a retired police officer, was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time, the NSW Supreme Court has been told. Murray Deakin, now 22, stands charged with two counts of murder and the attempted murder of his grandfather, as a judge-alone trial commenced in Sydney on Monday. M...
Crime by Steve Zemek The chilling final words heard by a former police officer before he was clubbed to death with a claw hammer by a man during a bloody rampage have been revealed in a Sydney court. Murray Deakin is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court, accused of murdering his grandmother Gail Winner and stabbing his grandfather Thomas Winner at their Bega home before murdering Michael Horne in a bizarre roadside attack at Bournda on the NSW south coast in June 2018. Mr Deakin, 22, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of g...
09:58 EDT, 18 January 2021 Having already killed his grandmother and led police on two dangerous pursuits, Murray Deakin snarled when a retired police officer approached him on a country NSW road. 'Follow the code... you have to follow the code,' the expressionless 20-year-old told Michael 'Mick' Horne in June 2018. He sighed when Mr Horne asked for his name and pulled a claw hammer from his backpack, striking the fleeing 54-year-old in the back of the head. Melanie Horne witnessed her husband's final moments before Deakin ordered her out of the couple's ute and drove away. Murray Deakin sn...