Jordan Baker

Sydney

Chief Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

Chief reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald. Views are my own. [email protected]

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Trad trades gangster life for acai berry business

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If a fortune-teller had visited Bill “Underworld” Trad during his years in prison, to tell him that within a year of his release he’d become an açai aficionado and social media star, “I would have said, ‘what a laugh’,” he says. “I’d lived a gangster life my whole life.”When Trad was granted parole less than two years ago, he had no idea about social media “likes” or “shares”.
At 3.33pm the bloody rampage began. By 3.39pm six innocent people lay dead or dying

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Jordan Baker |Perry Duffin

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At 3.33pm the bloody rampage began. By 3.39pm six innocent people lay dead or dying

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker |Perry Duffin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s a late autumn afternoon, and the shelves at Bondi Westfield’s Sourdough Bakery are almost bare. A few patrons linger over coffee and laptops in the fading sun. Two tourists walk past, surveying the remaining croissants. One turns to a nearby customer. “Is this a good bakery?” he asks in a thick Swedish accent.
Mackenzie Anderson’s killer pleads guilty to 2022 murder

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When neighbours rushed to Mackenzie Anderson’s apartment, they saw her blood-soaked body on the floor. They saw her former boyfriend, Tyrone Thompson, with blood on his hands. And they saw her son, who was not quite two years old, standing in a doorway. He had blood on his body, on his shirt, and on his nappy. No one knows what woke the little boy, or how much he saw.
‘This is a man who couldn’t cope’: Experts grapple with murder of Lilie James

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Jordan Baker

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‘This is a man who couldn’t cope’: Experts grapple with murder of Lilie James

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Paul Thijssen was 21 when he began a relationship with a woman three years his junior, who he’d known since she was in junior high school. Outwardly, at first, it might have felt sweetly romantic; he joined her church, he spent time with her family, and at their four-month anniversary she made him “vouchers” of things they could do together, tied with a ribbon.
Paul Thijssen’s ‘tipping point’ a 21st birthday party

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

By Jordan Baker March 20, 2025 — 12.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A 21st birthday party attended by Lilie James five days before she died was the point at which Paul Thijssen felt he lost control of her, triggering his rapid escalation from manipulation, coercion and lies to monitoring, stalking and finally murder, domestic violence experts have told an inquest into the popular school sports coach’s death.
Paul Thijssen’s ‘tipping point’ a 21st birthday party

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Jordan Baker

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Fear, control and punishment. Why Paul Thijssen killed Lilie James

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Paul Thijssen killed Lilie James to punish her for rejecting him, to protect his carefully curated public image as a desirable, admirable man, and to hide his fear and fragility, experts have told an inquest into their deaths. They believe nothing could have been done to stop him.
Lilie James inquest: CCTV reveals sport’s coach’s last moments before murder

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Jordan Baker

By Jordan BakerUpdated March 19, 2025 — 1.40pmfirst published at 11.23am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An inquest has been shown video footage of the last minutes of Lilie James’ life, which captured her colleague Paul Thijssen patiently waiting outside a bathroom door with a hammer in his hand before he strode inside and killed her.