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Kristian Silva
Verified
Court Reporter, ABC Melbourne
Melbourne
Beats
Ethnic Communities, Foreign Relations
consumer anything, soaps, fashion
Content
By Kristian Silva Verified| ABC News (Australia) Verified The family of a woman shot dead in her Melbourne home have expressed relief that her estranged husband will be jailed for at least two decades, and say they're certain he carried out the killing. On Wednesday, Emil Petrov was sentenced to 26 years' prison for the 2007 murder of Cindy Crossthwaite, although Justice Christopher Beale said he was not convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Petrov pulled the trigger.
By Kristian Silva Verified| ABC News (Australia) Verified Jessica Grapsas took her seat in the witness box, clasping pages of the statement she was about to deliver. She craned her neck, ensuring she could eyeball the man in the dock on the other side of the courtroom — the man who ended her husband's life. "Your crimes, Bailey Clifford, have ripped me in half," she began. For the next 20 minutes, Ms Grapsas described the horror of finding the body of her husband, Paul, in a pool of blood near their Geelong home two years ago.
By Kristian Silva Verified| ABC News (Australia) Verified Having been locked up for 6,513 days, drug trafficker Tony Mokbel believes he's spent enough time behind bars. His release on bail is a sign some of Victoria's top legal minds agree. The notion of Mokbel being a free man in 2025 would have been unthinkable to those who were in the Supreme Court when he was sentenced to 30 years' prison back in 2012. Those observers couldn't have predicted how the legal landscape would be rocked by the Lawyer X earthquake, which continues to cause aftershocks.
Company Info
ABC Melbourne
Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
+61 2 8333 2821