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Hawkesbury mayor stabbed after group of men invade home
Pat Connolly was stabbed in the arm after five to six men broke into his home in Bligh Park in Sydney’s north-west just after midnight and stole his family’s car.
- by Amelia McGuire
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- by Kate McClymont
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Mahmoud Ahmad’s nephew shot dead in second gangland shooting in four days
Rami Iskander, 24, is dead and police are investigating after the second fatal shooting in Sydney’s south-west this week.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Bikie boss Tarek Zahed’s brother Omar buried after gym shooting
Gunned-down Comanchero associate Omar Zahed has been laid to rest without the presence of his brothers Tarek and Abdul.
- by Jenny Noyes
Sydney bikie Tarek Zahed learnt of bounty on his head from newspaper: lawyer
The lawyer for a Comancheros heavyweight targeted in a gangland shooting that killed his brother says Tarek Zahed first learnt of a bounty on his head in a newspaper article, with police now probing a “long line of suspects”.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
‘Money talks’: the rise and rise of police rewards for unsolved crimes
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in million-dollar rewards on offer. In NSW, there are currently 248 rewards ranging from $50,000 to $1 million on offer for information that leads to a conviction.
- by Jenny Noyes and Sally Rawsthorne
Man allegedly defrauded intellectually disabled colleague of $435K, extradited from WA
The man allegedly escorted his colleague to a financial institution a number of times between 2014 and 2016, coercing him to withdraw large sums from his account.
- by Sarah Keoghan
‘He got more than 20 bullets’: Witness reveals details of shooting
Dozens of gym-goers were forced to drop to the floor and take cover as Comanchero Tarek Zahed, 41, and his brother Omar Zahed, 39, were sprayed with bullets.
- by Sally Rawsthorne and Jenny Noyes
Gunned down Comanchero was warned last week of bounty on his head
Police insist they have not lost control of organised crime after a second underworld figure was shot dead in a fortnight and a third man was sprayed with 10 bullets and remains in hospital.
- by Sally Rawsthorne and Jenny Noyes
Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed shot, brother Omar killed in Auburn shooting
Comancheros bikie boss Tarek Zahed is in a stable condition after surviving a shooting ambush at an Auburn gym that left his brother dead on Tuesday night.
- by Jenny Noyes, Sally Rawsthorne, Megan Levy and Sarah Keoghan
Police say diver left for dead during Argentinian 50kg cocaine drop gone wrong
The diver was found unconscious by passers-by on the Hunter River in Newcastle and died even though paramedics and members of the public performed CPR.
- by Sarah Keoghan