Sad final hours of baby girl revealed
A DRIVER in a stolen ute who mowed down seven children and a mum waiting to cross a busy Victorian intersection has been labelled a danger to the community.
Zhane Su’a, 22, was jailed yesterday after he pleaded guilty to 10 charges including five counts of recklessly causing injury, and one each of recklessly causing serious injury and reckless conduct endangering life.
“I am hesitant to say this to someone so young, but you’re a danger,” Judge John Smallwood said while sentencing Su’a for the February incident. AN unremorseful Islamic State supporter who helped a teenage terrorist kill NSW Police accountant Curtis Cheng has been jailed for at least 28- and- a- half years.
Milad Atai was sentenced yesterday for assisting and encouraging Farhad Jabar, 15, to shoot Mr Cheng at the state police headquarters at Parramatta in 2015 and helping the boy’s sister reach IS in Syria.
In jailing the 22- year- old, NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Johnson said Atai was a supporter of extreme jihad before the terrorist attack and appeared to still hold radical views. ASIC staff embedded at the big four banks and AMP will give raw, frank and blunt feedback to the organisations’ CEOs, the corporate regulator has said.
The first members of Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new team went into the Commonwealth Bank at the end of October.
The six staff were not there to be “a fly on the wall”, ASIC chairman James Shipton said.
They were there to give direct feedback to the people who needed to hear it, the most senior leaders of the banks, he told the banking royal commission yesterday. “CRAZY” winds continued to whip up a fast- moving bushfire yesterday in the NSW Hunter that’s putting dozens of homes under threat, with some residents resorting to pots and pans to help fight the blaze.
An emergency warning was reissued yesterday morning after the fire at Campvale flared up just after sunrise and headed towards Rookes Rd in Salt Ash.
Yesterday it was believed two sheds were destroyed by the fire, while Salt Ash Public School was forced to close.
With potential gusts of up to 90km/ h forecast, fire crews feared the blaze could spread via ember attacks.
“The fire is spotting in a number of areas under strong winds … and this will hamper firefighting efforts,” the NSW Rural Fire Service said.
Residents were being told to stay put, with several roads in and out of the area closed.
Salt Ash resident Alex Friggieri had not been able to reach his property since Thursday evening.
“I know someone whose dogs are still stuck at their property and they can’t get in. It’s not good,” he said. “People … were using pots and pans to try to put the fire out.”
Resident Kelly Hufnagl said the winds were “ridiculous” and hampering efforts.
More than 200 firefighters are battling the fire, including RFS volunteer and former prime minister Tony Abbott. THE mother of a murdered nine- month- old believed a tribal elder was caring for her daughter, only to find out her partner had thrown their baby into the Tweed River, NSW police will allege.
Court documents reveal the family of four had been sheltering from a storm in a Tweed Heads shopping centre about 6.30pm on Saturday.
CCTV footage shows the family walking through the shopping mall, their children wearing only nappies, the ninemonth- old in a shopping trolley.
The family huddled in a car park when the father took the baby, telling his partner he was going to “give the child to an elder”.
While the mother waited with their two- year- old son, police will allege the man walked to the water’s edge and tossed the infant into the river.
He then returned to his family before the trio caught a bus to the Gold Coast. The girl’s body drifted more than 30km in the ocean current before washing ashore on Surfers Paradise beach.
At 12.26am on Monday, police were called to a domestic incident in a Broadbeach park where the girl’s father was arrested and eight minutes later, her body was discovered on the beach.
The documents also detail the final hours of the baby’s life on Saturday.
It is alleged Queensland police were called to the family at Broadbeach at about 3am, finding the man and woman highly intoxicated. “Concerns were held for their ability to provide care and shelter for their children,” the documents state.
The family were taken to a home at Kingscliff, where neighbours said they heard a baby cry about 3.30am and a man knocking on a door asking to be let in.
One woman said she had seen the children “a few times” and she was heartbroken by the baby’s death.
The family stayed at the apartment until catching a bus for Tweed Heads about midday, police allege.
The family allegedly spent the afternoon near the Jack Evans Boat Harbour when the father asked another homeless woman to take their baby.
The man allegedly told the girl’s mother, “let them have this time to themselves to get to know each other”.
But a short time later the woman allegedly handed the girl back, saying “I can’t do it, I’m living on the street”.
The father was charged with murder on Thursday and appeared in Tweed Heads Local Court where his matter was adjourned to February 25.