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Nov 27, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The father of alleged fraudster Jack Endersby has vowed to fight claims he swindled his own mother in a deal over the sale of her northern suburbs home. WA Police allege Scott Endersby entered an agreement with his mother Lyn Newby to buy her Kingsley home in 2016, paying the 76-year-old $600,000 for the property.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Perth gym owner who faked her own death to cash in a life insurance payout worth more than $700,000 has been jailed for three years. Karen Salkilld, 43, was sentenced in Perth District Court on Monday after pleading guilty to charges arising from the fraud.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Police allege a violent robbery at a Merriwa tobacco shop that sparked a month-long police investigation was faked. In late July, Sam Collins, 21, allegedly entered the Smokers Warehouse on Baltimore Parade and started looking at products before walking behind the counter and pulling out a screwdriver in front of worker Sophia Howard, 22.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Holly Thompson |Chelsea Bowden |Michael E. Stamp
By Holly Thompson, Chelsea Bowden and Michael StampUpdated October 10, 2024 — 5.54pmfirst published at 11.07am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Famous British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly faces a long stay in WA after being accused of raping a woman following a Perth concert last month. However, he will not remain behind bars while he fights the charges in court.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A WA Police officer has allegedly been bitten and another attacked in a chaotic confrontation outside a southern suburbs shopping centre. And the state’s police union says it is time for the force to be properly recognised in an ongoing pay fight, as assaults reach a 15-year-high.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
nine.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
One of the potential candidates to fill the vacant West Coast Eagles coaching position has staked his claim for the job. Hayden Skipworth arrived in Perth on Thursday as the race to replace Adam Simpson narrowed down to three. "It's a big, powerful club with a huge supporter base and is commercially really strong," he said.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
9news.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
A Perth woman who faked her own death has been refused bail over new fraud charges. The Financial Crime Squad said mother-of-two Karen Salkilld allegedly altered the details of bank accounts associated with two businesses including gym F45 Bassendean in October last year and May this year. Salkilld is accused of attempting to gain access to payments meant for the businesses by transferring money from those accounts into her own personal bank accounts.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two men from Dayton have been charged with child sexual assault offences after they were discovered in a van with a teenaged girl at a Mid West truck stop on Friday. WA Police will allege the two men were talking with the 13-year-old via social media from Perth after which they allegedly drove several hundred kilometres to a Mid West Gascoyne town to pick up the girl.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
A southern suburbs gym owner has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after she faked her own death for an insurance payment worth more than $700,000. Karen Salkilld was arrested in March after lodging an insurance claim in her partner’s name claiming she was killed in a car accident in Broome. The 42 year old lodged falsified documents including a death certificate, Coroner’s Court of WA delegate letter and a record of investigation into a death in February this year.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Michael E. Stamp
The brother of an exiled crime kingpin is behind bars in Perth after being arrested at his Mount Pleasant home. Maytham Hamad, 29, was charged alongside Omar Hussein, Moey Ofi and Anita Lee McLean, with all appearing in court on Tuesday facing one count of receiving, possessing or dealing with any money or property that is the proceeds of an offence, with the offences alleged to have occurred between April and June this year.
