True Crime News Weekly

TRUE OPINION: “METH & MY BOY”! A dad tells all

June 13, 2019 Murray Kinnane 1

The number of prisoners in Australia’s jails convicted of illicit drug offences is rising by the month. Rarely heard however is the story of those affected by drug addiction, people who require treatment but instead receive incarceration. Murray Kinnane is the father of one such person.

CRIME CULTURE: Red Joan

June 12, 2019 Therese Taylor 0

Inspired by true events, Red Joan is a new historical spy thriller co-starring Judi Dench. Aiming for heft and gravitas, it instead ends up being a serious let-down with racist caricatures taking centre stage alongside some of the most tedious British stiff upper lips seen in a long while, writes Therese Taylor.

ALLEGED TORTURER FOR PINOCHET FIGHTS FOR BAIL! Right-hand woman to Chilean secret service, Adriana Rivas, seeks to sink extradition case as families of victims call for justice

May 28, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 2

EXCLUSIVE: It’s not everyday one spends a few hours just a metre or two from an alleged fascist torturer, but this week in Sydney that’s exactly what happened when True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, was face-to-face with an ever-aging, small-statured, dark-haired woman said to be the right-hand woman of Chile’s notorious secret service during the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

LAWYER! LIAR! Pants on Fire

May 27, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

ANALYSIS: With a number of recent high-profile scandals involving practitioners of the law, should we even trust lawyers in the first place? Gary Johnston doesn’t hold back and tells us what he really thinks.

GREENS A GO-GO! Richard Di Natale “hopeful & optimistic” his party can play meaningful role at election

May 10, 2019 Chris Mordd Richards 0

FEDERAL ELECTION: The Greens held their official launch event for the May 18 election last week with a largely low-key affair in Canberra. True Crime News Weekly was seemingly the only media outlet in attendance at the event. Our correspondent, Chris Mordd Richards, with this exclusive report.

ALL THE SINS! ALL THE SCANDALS! ALL THE ALLEGED POTENTIAL CORRUPTION! Dossiers of the Dodgy: The crooked culture of Scott Morrison’s Coalition this election

May 8, 2019 Melanie Coutts 2

FEDERAL ELECTION: With Australians heading to the polls in 10 days time, True Crime News Weekly has compiled a near definitive list of all the sins, scandals and potential corruption that has oozed out of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s LNP government since the Coalition gained power under Tony Abbott all the way back in 2013.

TRUE OPINION: Hate Speech & the paradox of our digital age

May 6, 2019 Chris Mordd Richards 0

Just how much hate speech should we ‘tolerate’, wonders Chris Mordd Richards.

CRIME CULTURE: Portrait of a profiler

May 1, 2019 Tim Kent 0

With Netflix rebooting its popular Mindhunter true crime drama for a second season, Tim Kent takes a close look at just how useful criminal profiling is when it comes to solving crimes.

HOLD ON TO YOUR PONYTAILS! Anti-gay LNP MP George Christensen & his Filipina fiancée with the sexy lesbian past who the “member for Manila” met while allegedly trawling sex bars in the Philippines

April 24, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 4

EXCLUSIVE: He is the politician nicknamed the “member for Manila” after going on 28 separate trips to the Philippines and spending almost 300 days overseas in just four years on the Australian taxpayer dime. But it can now be revealed the homophobic LNP MP, George Christensen, spent a large portion of that holiday time in an Angeles City bar that provides an “adult entertainment service” and it was where he would eventually meet his future fiancée who was in a lesbian relationship at the time.

THE $6 MILLION (FRAUD LAWYER) MAN! Sydney solicitor Mark O’Brien & wife Therese O’Brien purchased new house in Bondi with stolen millions after raiding client trust accounts

April 16, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 5

EXCLUSIVE: A highly experienced lawyer from Sydney’s ritzy eastern suburbs as well as his wife are at the centre of a $6 million fraud case with Edgecliff solicitor, Mark O’Brien, this month admitting to swindling millions of dollars from the trust accounts of clients so the couple could buy a new house in Bondi. Serkan Ozturk reports.

“DADDY BALLARAT”! Sent to prison for raping 4 boys, former journo & convicted pedo William Scetrine builds social media following in thousands & now searching for “friends” to take around Asia

April 15, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: William Scetrine was a former journalist and senior adviser to the Australian Democrats party who in 2008 was sentenced to six years imprisonment for raping four primary-school aged boys. The judge said he had shown no remorse and there was little chance of rehabilitation. Having built himself a large following on social media since his release, Scetrine was now looking for “friends” to travel with around Asia.

“FREE THE TRUTH! FREE ASSANGE! DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER”! Australians protest in support of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange

April 12, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

SYDNEY: An emergency protest was held outside the UK Consulate in Sydney today as Australians rallied in support of Wikileaks publisher and Australian citizen, Julian Assange, following his arrest in London overnight.

TRUE OPINION: PSYCHOPATHS! The awful, awful truth

April 9, 2019 Tim Kent 0

It is often said of psychopaths that the most dangerous aspect of their personality is the ability to manipulate people. Tim Kent takes a much closer look at what makes a person a psychopath.

CONVICTED KILLER VISITED OXFORD ST GAY BAR JUST HOURS AFTER REMOVING BRACELET! Double murderer Damien Peters arrested after late night visit to Stonewall Hotel

April 8, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: A convicted murderer on parole who dismembered two gay men almost 20 years ago was chillingly spotted at a famous Oxford Street gay bar just a few hours after removing his monitoring bracelet yesterday afternoon, with police arresting the wanted man, Damien Peters, late today.

OUR HAUS IS A VERY, VERY, VERY BAD HOUSE! Property pollution plagues Yarra Council

April 8, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

EXCLUSIVE: Property pollution from one of Melbourne’s ugliest buildings is plaguing residents in the city’s north. Gary Johnston investigates.

PALADIN IGNORED SEX ASSAULT BY AUSSIE GUARD ON MANUS! PNG police arrest Terry Geddes after allegedly assaulting fellow employee

April 5, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: The shady Paladin company tasked with providing security and basic services to refugees stuck on Manus Island is now involved in an another controversy, with claims it ignored complaints from its own employees about an Australian guard sexually assaulting other staff.

THE CHESSBOARD KILLER! Meet Alexander Pichushkin

April 5, 2019 Katya Gladiadis 1

SERIAL KILLERS: The serial killers of Russia are of a significantly different breed, often sporting the epithet of ‘maniac’, ‘ripper’ or ‘monster’ – and there is a kind of crude brutality in their methods. But it is a rare individual that makes a nation re-consider their ban on the death penalty. Alexander Pichushkin, also known as the ‘Bitsa Park Maniac’ and ‘The Chessboard Killer’, is one such murderer.

BACK FROM THE DEAD! SX Magazine rises under new owner who earlier this year wrote about stealing from his own ‘dead stepmother’

March 25, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 2

EXCLUSIVE: A young, wannabe media entrepreneur who just over a month ago wrote about stealing millions of dollars worth of assets from his ‘dead stepmother’ is the proud new owner of the disgraced LGBTQI media title, SX Magazine.

CARDINAL IN A CELL! Child rapist George Pell tells faithful he is “joyful and content” with prison only a “small inconvenience”

March 21, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal George Pell is said to be “in really good spirits” as well as “joyful and content” just a week after trading the House of God for the Big House and a six year stint for child rape. That’s according to a leaked letter which also states that a “key witness” in Pell’s trial is still “very close to the Cardinal and loves him dearly”.

REJOICE! HALLELUJAH! Racist radio tosser, One Nation supporter & teenage schoolboy love-letter writer Alan Jones to lose 2GB job

March 18, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Bitter media bully Alan Jones is set to lose his status as Sydney radio’s resident old man yelling at the clouds with bosses at 2GB deciding not to renew his contract this month, according to sources.