‘Scammers ... to stir dissension’:Wakeley church warns of impersonators
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‘Scammers ... to stir dissension’:Wakeley church warns of impersonators

Warning given as intellectually disabled Horningsea Park man Issa Haddad,28,becomes the third alleged rioter freed on bail.

  • bySally Rawsthorne

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Thomas Kelly’s father says family ‘blindsided’ by parole process as son’s killer released

Thomas Kelly’s father says family ‘blindsided’ by parole process as son’s killer released

Kieran Loveridge walked out of Broken Hill prison on Friday. An angry Ralph Kelly says the family were kept in the dark about his behaviour in jail during a final parole hearing.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Police charge teen suspect in alleged stabbing of bishop with terrorism offence
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Police charge teen suspect in alleged stabbing of bishop with terrorism offence

The 16-year-old boy was refused bail and will appear before a bedside court hearing on Friday,police said.

  • bySally Rawsthorne andChris Barrett
‘I forgive you’:Stabbed bishop calls for calm as rioter arrests begin

‘I forgive you’:Stabbed bishop calls for calm as rioter arrests begin

“The Lord Jesus never taught us to retaliate,the Lord Jesus never said to us ‘an eye for an eye,a tooth for a tooth,’” the bishop said in an audio message released on Thursday.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Teenage terror accused dropped out of school,was increasingly ‘disobedient’

Teenage terror accused dropped out of school,was increasingly ‘disobedient’

The 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a western Sydney church had not attended school for more than six months,and his father had also seen signs of increasing “disobedience”.

  • bySally Rawsthorne,Lucy Carroll,Clare Sibthorpe andPatrick Begley
Black ribbons,no music:Shopping-free day of reflection at Westfield Bondi Junction

Black ribbons,no music:Shopping-free day of reflection at Westfield Bondi Junction

The shopping centre will turn off music and display black ribbons on advertising boards when it reopens on Thursday.

  • byAnthony Segaert andSally Rawsthorne
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The shocking attack on a ‘TikTok Bishop’ and eruption of a febrile community

The shocking attack on a ‘TikTok Bishop’ and eruption of a febrile community

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching to a small congregation,but thousands were tuning in via a livestream. Within minutes,they were arriving by the carload.

  • byCarrie Fellner,Harriet Alexander andSally Rawsthorne
Church stabbing declared a terror incident as weapons history of teenage attacker revealed
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Church stabbing declared a terror incident as weapons history of teenage attacker revealed

The 16-year-old boy at the centre of a counter-terrorism investigation was previously suspended from school for carrying a knife and last year faced a weapons charge.

  • bySally Rawsthorne,Patrick Begley andMatthew Knott
Witnesses to Bondi killer’s final moments recount bravery of ‘warrior’ cop

Witnesses to Bondi killer’s final moments recount bravery of ‘warrior’ cop

Two men who came within metres of Joel Cauchi in the final moments of his Bondi Junction killing spree have spoken of their terror as they watched him run through the shopping centre,before they heard gunshots ring out.

  • byPerry Duffin,Clare Sibthorpe,Sally Rawsthorne andAngus Dalton
Stabbing attack at Sydney church as police counter angry crowds
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Stabbing attack at Sydney church as police counter angry crowds

Police faced angry crowds outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church after a religious leader and worshippers were attacked on Monday night.

  • bySally Rawsthorne,Perry Duffin,Matthew Knott andClare Sibthorpe
‘Bollard man’ didn’t know what was happening when he took on Joel Cauchi

‘Bollard man’ didn’t know what was happening when he took on Joel Cauchi

French construction worker Damien Guerot and his friend Silas Despreaux were at the shops on Saturday when a commotion began.

  • bySally Rawsthorne