PODCAST · true crime
Court in the Act
by The West Australian
Do you live and breathe true crime? Want the inside story? All the juicy details?You’re in luck. Court in the Act with Tim Clarke goes inside the courtroom with an in-depth look at the cases happening right now.Join Clarke and Australia’s leading legal minds for all the twists and turns of the nation’s most interesting cases.
Episodes
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Reynolds v Higgins: High stakes in defamation case
On August 2, the Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins defamation trial will begin in WA’s Supreme Court. Senator Reynolds is suing Higgins over a series of social media posts she claims were part of a deliberate attempt to ruin her career and reputation. Higgins argues the posts were justified,...
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Prima Facie: Shifting narratives around consent in the courtroom
How’s about this for a guest list? The Chief Justice of Western Australia. The Attorney General of Western Australia. The former DPP of Western Australia, turned Supreme Court judge. Two of the richest people in Australia. The former chairman of the West Coast Eagles. More lawyers. More judges....
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Disturbing case of gunshot death: The truth about Amy
A decade since Amy Wensley’s suspicious death, her family are no closer to answers. The mother of two little girls was found in her bedroom with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Despite first responders’ suspicions, within one-hour detectives deemed Amy’s death a suicide. What Police did - or...
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A survivor of one of Perth’s worst paedophile priests speaks
Thirty years ago this coming weekend, The Sunday Times fully exposed paedophile priest Reverend Michael Roderick Painter for the first time. Painter had been an Anglican priest in Perth and beyond since the early 60s. He was revered for his charisma and charm, his pastoral skill, his common…
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Tragic clues; Giving the dead their day in court.
Who, how and why. Put brutally, those are the three questions a coroner has to answer when investigating a death. Seemingly simple questions. But sometimes so hard to answer. Sometimes impossible. In the coming weeks and months in Western Australia, headlines will be writ large about inquests set...
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Floreat killer exposes tragic shortcomings in domestic violence scourge.
On a quiet and idyllic street in the leafy suburb of Floreat, in Western Australia, the actions of a man intent on revenge, sent shockwaves throughout the small community and beyond. Mark Bombara had been searching for his estranged wife, instead he found her best friend Jennifer Petelczyc, 59…
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Eerie echos of ‘Baby Reindeer’ stalker
Serial stalker Kobi Jane Langshaw, whose obsessive contact with two men had chilling similarities with the Netflix smash-hit Baby Reindeer, has been banned for life from ever contacting her latest victims again. This is the TRUE story of a case that has eerie similarities to the Netflix smash…
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Sniper's extraordinary court appearance
In December 2020 one WA’s most fearsome bikie heavyweights was assassinated in front of hundreds of people at the Kwinana Motorplex, sparking an unprecedented response from both police and politicians. Taskforce Ravello smashed in doors, raided properties, locked up people in the hunt for…
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Why Donald Trump will NEVER go to jail
This month, Donald J Trump became the first president, present or former, to face a criminal trial in the United States. And the allegation was that he, and his minions, along with the National Enquirer “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election”. A scheme involving a porn star…
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Attack on free speech? Govt. vs Elon Musk
It began with a man, and then a boy. The massacre at Bondi Junction. And the stabbing of a bishop during a Wakeley church service. Both horrific actions were captured in real time, and the images of the knife, of the death, the horror the shock and the grief, then broadcast to the world. The...
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16yo death in custody: tragic Cleveland Dodd
Just after 2am on October 12, 2023 an ambulance raced to WA’s main maximum security prison Casuarina. A 16-year-old boy had self-harmed inside his cell at the notorious Unit 18 – the juvenile facility located within the grounds of the adult prison. The teen was rushed to hospital where was put on...
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Travis Barnard’s SUPER betrayal
Kimberley Heptinstall was 32, the life of party. Everyone’s friend. She and her partner Travis Barnard met online and got engaged in June 2017. Until, after a planned elective surgery, Kim lost her life. Suddenly, tragically. The loss devastated her family. And left her partner bereaved, and...
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Edhouse: Father & son bonded by blood
Blood, violence and death seem to follow the name Edhouse. Father and son Andrew and Robert are both bikies and linked to a string of gruesome crimes – including the disappearance of Kalgoorlie woman Lisa Govan. Andrew Edhouse, one of WA’s most notorious bikies in the late 90s, was a member of…
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Death in paradise: 12yo, pilot killed in Broome chopper tragedy
It started as a way to create memories to last a lifetime. An experienced pilot, two excited 12-year-old girls and a family friend on a joy flight over Broome’s iconic coastline. But it quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare as the Robinson R44 Raven chopper plunged to the ground...
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Joe Versace: A bikie-related shooting?
Versace is a name dripped with glamour, and wealth, and glitz, and fame. But the reality of the death of a man who bore it was a lot grimier than the Italian fashion house which made it famous. Joseph Rodney Versace. A man with bikie links. Shot in the head. Dead – in a shed, north of Perth. The...
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NSW murders: Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
It’s the case that’s dominated the Australian consciousness. The alleged murders of a couple – Jesse Baird and Luke Davies – by another man. A NSW cop. Beau Lamarre-Condon. A double homicide, in Jesse’s home. In cold blood. With a gun, that was police issue. Jesse Baird was allegedly Mr-Lamarre...
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Julian Assange: hero or villain? with Peter Greste
Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – has said the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange. Assange took his final appeal against extradition to the United States to the UK’s highest…
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Inside Lisa Wilkson vs Network 10
It’s a spin-off from the original drama Brittany Higgins versus Bruce Lehrmann. Veteran TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson took on her former employer Network 10 over her decision to get her own lawyers. And over what those lawyers cost. It all stems from the interview Wilkinson conducted with Higgins…
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Lawyer X The Biggest Snitch: Tony Mokbel & Nicola Gobbo
He was one of the biggest figures in Melbourne’s Underbelly. She was his lawyer. And, as it turns out, the biggest snitch of all. Tony Mokbel is widely regarded as the organiser of Melbourne’s methamphetamine business. And in 2006 he became Australia’s most wanted man, escaping the country on a...
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Bikie shot & Don Hancock bombed: Ora Banda with Ben Harvey
On October 1, 2000 two shots rang out in the darkness in the middle of nowhere. The handful of Gypsy Jokers sitting around a campfire near the pub in the tiny Goldfields town of Ora Banda hit the deck. One wasn’t so lucky. Billy Grierson caught a bullet in the chest and bled to death. The owner…
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Good cop, BAD cop: Roger Rogerson story
A decorated policeman is revealed to be a murderer. Detective Roger Rogerson was once a legend of the NSW police force. He scooped up robbers, shot up bad boys, solved murders and never said sorry. But as it turned out, he was as corrupt as they came. And even committed murders himself. Roger...
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Lloyd Rayney, Part 2: The fallout & other theories
It’s the contentious murder investigation everyone has an opinion about. Lloyd Patrick Rayney vs The State of Western Australia. One of the most scrutinized murder trials in living memory ended with Mr Rayney being acquitted of the murder, and manslaughter of his wife Corryn. Mr Rayney also won…
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Lloyd Rayney, Part 1: The trial
It’s a case that rocked WA’s legal community and etched itself into the State’s memory. A toxic marriage on the rocks, allegations of phone tapping, gambling, cheating and murder. Multiple court cases. A family in pieces. On the evening of August 7, 2007, Corryn Rayney, a Supreme Court registrar...
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Tinder stalker Adam Rybicki/Tom Lewandowski- with Sarah Steger
There are plenty of fish in the sea, so the saying goes. But looking for love online can sometimes be a terrifying and dangerous experience. Just ask one of the Perth victims of “campaigns of terror and punishment” at the hands of a serial dating app stalker. Adam Geoffrey Rybicki looked like any...
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Bruce Lehrmann trial: Lisa Wilkinson takes the stand
The Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial continues and this week has featured the most explosive evidence from the woman who conducted the interview with Brittany Higgins. Journalist, editor, presenter and author Lisa Wilkinson. She, along with her employer Network Ten, are being sued by Mr Lehrmann,...
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WA’s most dangerous man - Stewart Gorham
Stewart Sinclair Gorham is 54-years-old. In the last 33 years, he has only spent 100 days in the community. The rest have been spent in prison, locked up for truly hideous crimes. His history is so bad, that even he says he should never again be released from prison. He may well be Western...
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Mum and daughter: killed, dumped in shark & croc infested waters
It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for Perth mother Avril Croft and her teenage daughter, sailing around Australia on a yacht. Instead they were murdered – and their bodies dumped into shark and croc infested waters. Garry Whitsed was charged with strangling his lover, shooting her…
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Bruce Lehrmann vs Brittany Higgins: the truth on trial
It's a case that sent shockwaves around Australia and has captured the imagination of a nation for almost three years. And the bombshells have kept on coming in the latest instalment - a defamation trial brought by Bruce Lehrmann in Sydney's Federal court this week. It's a complex he said, she…
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A toddler's unsolved death: Justice for Safa Annour
It’s been more than 5 years since a Canberra toddler named Safa Annour died in a suspected murder. There have been no arrests, no answers, no justice. No closure. Safa was a striking, smiling little two-year old girl. Her eyes twinkling. And her happy little wave to the bus driver who dropped her...
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Demon unmasked: Case of Barry Cable
He was one of WA’s sporting heroes. An AFL legend. But he was also a sexual predator. And a paedophile. Barry Cable preyed on the children of his neighbour - a 12 year-old-girl- frequently, brazenly and for years. After years of abuse, an inability of police to lay charges and a secret appearance...
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Missing for 37 years- Sharon Fulton case with Phil Hickey
A 39-year-old mother-of-four leaves her house in Duncraig on the morning of March 18, 1986. She is never seen again. Four devastated children. Puzzled family and friends. Many public appeals. The disappearance of Sharon Fulton resulted in a decades long investigation by police, determined to find...
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Catching a killer with Shannon Hampton
Rachel Michael was much loved – by her mother. By her sister. She was well liked – particularly at St Pats Community Centre in Fremantle, where her face was familiar. She was planning a big celebration for her 40th birthday but she would never see that birthday, or that party because she was...
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A lawyer locked up- The case of Gary Rodgers
He was a regular and regarded criminal lawyer in Perth. Busy representing drunk drivers, drug dealers and COVID breachers. But in 2018, Gary Rodgers was arrested and charged himself – accused of plotting with former Rebels bikie Steven Wayne Taylor, his mother Christine Taylor and another man,...
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The William Tyrrell mystery with John Hammond
A three-year-old boy dressed in a Spider-Man suit goes missing while playing at his foster grandmother's house in rural NSW in 2014. His name is William Tyrrell and he is never seen again. Today, barrister John Hammond joins host Tim Clarke to step through the serpentine search for William…
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The Devil Next Door with Shannon Hampton
Some killers are pathetic. Some are genuinely sorry. And then there are a few – rare but always memorable – that are truly evil. To the outside world, he was a young, urbane, university educated qualified psychologist. A nice boy, and a good next-door neighbour. When in fact, he was the devil…
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Dayne Brajkovich insignia case with Michael Tudori
Feral and fascinating. Arrested, but still arresting. The membership and movements of WA’s bikie gangs and the plans authorities have to crackdown on them are always in the headlines. None more so than Dayne Brajkovich, former sergeant at arms of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Michael Tudori,...
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One tonne Abrolhos Island drug bust with Tom Percy KC
Step into any court, in any town or city, on any day and within an hour you'll hear the word drugs. Today's case is one of the strangest in recent memory and involves 1 tonne of illicit drugs destined for Western Australian shores. It also involved wrong numbers, rotten weather, a yacht from...
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Lynn Cannon murder with Bernard Standish
Lynn Cannon was murdered by her estranged husband Paul in December 2022. He was recently sentenced to 19 years in prison for the horrific crime. It is just one of the many tragic domestic violence cases that flood our court systems. Join host Tim Clarke and veteran barrister Bernard Standish, of...
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Do you live and breathe true crime? Want the inside story? All the juicy details?You’re in luck. Court in the Act with Tim Clarke goes inside the courtroom with an in-depth look at the cases happening right now.Join Clarke and Australia’s leading legal minds for all the twists and turns of the nation’s most interesting cases.
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