Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown
Perth

Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown

Jennifer Petelczyc,59,and her youngest daughter Gretl,18,were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.

  • byHolly Thompson,Heather McNeill andMichael Stamp

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Man who killed mother,daughter in Floreat home was looking for his ex-wife
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Perth

Man who killed mother,daughter in Floreat home was looking for his ex-wife

The man attended the Floreat house looking for his ex-wife,but when he realised she wasn’t there,he instead killed Jenny Petelczyc and her teenage daughter before turning the gun on himself.

  • byHolly Thompson
‘The land continues sliding’ in PNG as up to 300 reported dead
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Papua New Guinea

‘The land continues sliding’ in PNG as up to 300 reported dead

The PNG Post Courier reported the increased death toll and said 1182 houses were destroyed,citing an MP. At least six villages were affected,Australian officials said.

  • bySam McKeith andRod McGuirk
Perth cyclist dies after being ‘run down by suspected vigilante’
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Police

Perth cyclist dies after being ‘run down by suspected vigilante’

A 48-year-old Perth cyclist has died after allegedly being run down by a driver in a suspected act of vigilantism.

  • byHolly Thompson
Hundreds believed killed by landslide in Enga Province,PNG
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Papua New Guinea

Hundreds believed killed by landslide in Enga Province,PNG

More than 50 homes,many with people still asleep inside,were buried when the landslide hit Kaokalam village around 3am.

  • byLewis Jackson andRenju Jose
WA News live:The huge deposit you need to save up to buy an average house;Perth’s penguins in trouble
WA news live

WA News live:The huge deposit you need to save up to buy an average house;Perth’s penguins in trouble

WAtoday brings you all the news you need to know as it happens this Friday,May 24.

  • byDaile Cross andCameron Myles
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Mother guilty of forcing daughter into marriage which ended with her murder in Perth
WA courts

Mother guilty of forcing daughter into marriage which ended with her murder in Perth

Halimi killed his new wife at their home in 2020 and is serving a term of life in prison with a minimum of 19 years.

  • byEmily Woods
‘Sweetest soul’:Teen killed in Gooseberry Hill crash remembered
Perth

‘Sweetest soul’:Teen killed in Gooseberry Hill crash remembered

Dylan Soklich,16,was a passenger in the back of a car that hit a tree and rolled on a Perth Hills road on Wednesday night.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt andAmber Wilkinson
School bus driver had medical episode before crash,police believe
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Road safety

School bus driver had medical episode before crash,police believe

Students are devastated after much-loved driver Gary McDonald died in the crash on the way home from school.

  • byRobyn Grace,Bridie Smith andAlex Crowe
‘All of a sudden I was on the roof of the cabin’:Australians recount Singapore Airlines terror
Aviation

‘All of a sudden I was on the roof of the cabin’:Australians recount Singapore Airlines terror

A Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence on Tuesday,with eight of the more than 50 Australians on board in hospital.

  • byAlex Crowe,Jessica McSweeney andAngus Dalton
Grandfather dies after severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight
UK

Grandfather dies after severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight

Geoffrey Kitchen was travelling with his wife of more than 50 years,Linda,who has been transferred to hospital in Bangkok for treatment.

  • byRozina Sabur,Gareth Corfield,Max Stephens andNeil Johnston