Albert McKnight

1 week ago | region.com.au | Albert McKnight

CONTENT WARNING: This article refers to alleged sexual abuse. The co-owner and manager of a café in northern Canberra is alleged to have repeatedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old employee before telling her, “Keep this a secret”. The five charges laid over the allegations against Dhiren Patel, a 32-year-old from Gungahlin, include three counts of rape. It is alleged he gave the girl alcohol in April 2025, then repeatedly sexually abused her at their workplace while she was intoxicated.

1 week ago | region.com.au | Albert McKnight

About 20 brawlers became involved in a major fight in central Canberra on Anzac Day (25 April), and police are now calling for witnesses or footage of the incident. Police arrived after about 20 people started fighting in a car park behind a hospitality venue in Turner at about 6 pm that evening. One person’s ankle was broken during the fight and they had to be taken to hospital.

1 week ago | region.com.au | Albert McKnight

CONTENT WARNING: This article refers to sexual abuse and family violence. Years in jail have been handed to a man who raped his pregnant partner despite her pleas for him to stop, before he threatened to kill both her and her unborn child. The woman was eight months pregnant when the then-18-year-old man went out in December 2021 and took meth, cocaine and alcohol before he returned home and threatened to “smash” her head. She went to sleep, but he woke her up, demanding sex.

1 week ago | region.com.au | Albert McKnight

A man has been banned from Gungahlin Marketplace after he allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on his partially blind victim while using a charity van service. Matthew Peter White, 45, has been charged with assault over the allegations. It is reported he was using a service provided by a charity van on Hibberson Street in central Gungahlin on Tuesday (5 May) when he began yelling at a member of the public.

1 week ago | region.com.au | Albert McKnight

A woman is likely to be awarded almost $200,000 in damages after a needle broke in her spine before a caesarean at Canberra Hospital. In February 2020, the career public servant went to the hospital for the procedure and had to be given a spinal anaesthetic. Doctors tried to insert a needle for the anaesthetic four times before the needle broke, leaving part of it inside her body, which had to be surgically removed. Her daughter was successfully delivered via a C-section after the incident.