Jordyn Beazley

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley

Joel Cauchi’s mother didn’t appear before the coronial inquest examining her son’s life and the day her son murdered six people at a popular Bondi Junction shopping centre. But her presence was often felt, taking shape in the form of notes she had written to his doctor or in a conversation with a police officer. One of the most striking moments of the inquest was when Michele Cauchi, now in her mid-70s, was filmed via body-worn video camera on a police officer.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley

A man has been arrested three decades after a New South Wales mother disappeared and three years after her cold case was reopened. Pauline Sowry, also known by her married name Pauline Lawrence, was 49 when last seen by her family in the northern suburbs of Wollongong in December 1993. Her whereabouts remain unknown, although a 2008 coronial inquest found she had died, most likely after an unconfirmed sighting in 1994. Police said a 64-year-old man was arrested on Thursday at a unit in Gywnneville.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley

A student from a $40,000-a-year private school in Sydney has lost his battle to keep girls out of the school, with a legal challenge against the decision to go co-ed failing. The student, who remains anonymous and was only known as student A, had challenged the transition in the NSW supreme court on the basis that a trust deed written for Sydney’s Newington college in 1873 stated the school was set up to educate “youth”. They argued at the time the term referred to boys.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley

New South Wales independent MP Gareth Ward allegedly raped a political staffer in his home in 2015 after he invited the man to stay over following an event at Parliament House, a court has heard. Ward, who at the time of the alleged offending was the Liberal MP for Kiama, is facing an expected four-week trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre after being charged with five criminal offences.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley

The New South Wales government has admitted in an ongoing class action that it is vicariously liable for former notorious prison guard Wayne Astill’s sexual abuse of a female inmate. Court documents filed in the NSW supreme court earlier this month also reveal the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) admits that “from time to time” some guards knew about “some inappropriate conduct” by Astill towards inmates.