Kristian Silva

Crime kingpin Tony Mokbel tells a court he "100 per cent" did not tell then-lawyer Nicola Gobbo he was willing to identify corrupt officers and admit to being a drug trafficker.

Crime kingpin Tony Mokbel appears in court to appeal his conviction, saying disgraced barrister Nicola Gobbo encouraged him to flee overseas in 2006, when she told him she'd received a police tip-off.

More than three years on, the family of Celeste Manno remain in disbelief that she was murdered by an intruder wielding a knife and a hammer in the middle of the night. 

The legal battle between ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming and Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto will proceed to a 10-day Federal Court trial, with the pair represented by two of the nation's leading defamation barristers.

As Victoria's Supreme Court prepares to sentence obsessed killer Luay Sako, experts say stalking remains an "epidemic" that authorities are struggling to contain.

Victoria's Supreme Court hears the obsessive stalker is likely to re-offend if he is ever released back into the community.

Violent killer Luay Sako exaggerated mental illness to avoid facing trial for murder, a psychiatrist has told Victoria's Supreme Court.

A Victorian court hears Luay Sako was a former colleague of Celeste Manno when he sent the young woman harassing Instagram messages for months, despite an intervention order and her repeated pleas for him to stop.

Residents at Victoria's public housing towers have filed a class action over the state governments plan to knock down and rebuild the structures. 

Christopher Raftopoulos is accused of attacking five people in four separate incidents in inner Melbourne earlier this month.

Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and the alleged murder of Box Hill doctor Ash Gordon.

The man accused of driving dangerously through the Melbourne CBD in September last year, in a deadly incident in which pedestrians and motorists were struck, has pleaded not guilty and will now face a trial in the Supreme Court.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria's justice system experienced the biggest backlog of cases in the country, but things are returning to normal.

A 12-year-old girl charged with murdering a woman in Melbourne had been reported missing 275 times in the lead-up to the killing.

The mother and younger brother of Melbourne crime kingpin George Marrogi are handed jail sentences after pleading guilty to money laundering, but both walk from court.

A Melbourne businessman is facing up to 10 years in prison after using a hospital donation to secretly influence former federal minister Alan Tudge.

One of Australia's most notorious terrorists has been released on an extended supervision order for 12 months.

The man who used a metal bucket to attack Melbourne City goalkeeper Thomas Glover is spared jail and is instead sentenced to a community corrections order after an appeal.

A Victorian coroner finds it is "possible" the 20-year-old was attacked before her 2016 death in Mozambique, in a finding her family hope will push local authorities to continue their investigation.

Jiangang Ji kidnapped the children of his former boss before demanding a $1 million ransom as part of a revenge plot.

A Melbourne court hears a diabetic man whose car struck and killed five people outside a regional Victorian pub allegedly ignored nine warnings from a medical device that his blood glucose levels were low.

In 1984, Robert Barry chased down a 24-year-old woman and raped her in a "degrading" attack. Nearly four decades on, he has been sentenced in a Victorian court.

Paul Charlton, 69, is sentenced to 24 years behind bars for the 2007 murder of his girlfriend Joanne Howell, which he tried to blame on an intruder. 

A Victorian coroner hands down damning findings after an investigation into the death of six-year-old Eugene Mahauariki, who fell from an Easter carnival ride in 2017.

Melbourne man Mathew Dyer will spend at least seven and a half years behind bars over a high-speed car crash that killed his passenger.