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They are considered rising stars of the art world who were both finalists in this year’s Archibald Prize. But a court heard this week that their friendship allegedly spilt over into a major drug dealing enterprise.
A Victorian man has been convicted and fined $9500 for using another registered builder’s status to apply for building permits for five commercial
A young woman accused of associating with a person who intended to fight for Islamic State has been granted bail but remains in custody pending an appeal by Commonwealth prosecutors.
10:08 EDT, 1 March 2021 770 shares Commonwealth prosecutors will seek to appeal a court's decision to grant bail to a young Melbourne woman accused of communicating with and assisting ISIS terrorists. She is alleged to have collected nearly 1,000 images of ISIS propaganda, including pictures of dead people and beheadings, on her phone before her arrest last year. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also allegedly professed her love for and promised to join a man who left Australia to fight for ISIS while under age and living at her parent's home. Now aged 23, the woman was gr...
22:12 EDT, 3 February 2021 An alleged extremist facing terrorism charges is accused of sending intimate love letters to an ISIS-supporting radical, known as the 'tiny terrorist', in jail, a court heard. Hadashah Sa'adat Khan was arrested on February 25 last year and faces life in prison for a series of terrorism offences, including acting as a conduit between now-jailed American extremist Akram Musleh and other IS members. The 23-year-old applied for bail at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday, but prosecutors say she remains committed to extremist religious ideology, pointing to ja...