Jenny Noyes

NSW Police have put on extra patrols and issued a public plea after two serious sexual assaults in Goulburn over the past fortnight.

Police arrested 26-year-old Le Nghia “Andy” Pham at Sydney Airport on Sunday night as he allegedly attempted to fly to Vietnam.

A Sydney court has heard Brothers 4 Life gang leader Bassam Hamzy relayed coded messages through his lawyer to direct a drug operation from his jail cell.

The Brothers 4 Life gang boss insists his business ventures behind bars are legitimate, as prosecutors seek to prove he was pulling the strings of a drug supply ring.

Michel Germani claimed to be a victim of a brazen armed robbery at his store in January. He’s now been charged with orchestrating it.

Police rules for Tasers say they should not be used on the elderly or someone of particularly small body mass, unless exceptional circumstances exist.

Smartphone video taken by the victim’s friend shows the boy did nothing to constitute a threat to the officer, the magistrate said.

The officer’s claim the boy had been violently resisting arrest was “simply not correct,” the magistrate said.

Emergency services responding to reports of gunfire in a suburban street found a man sitting in his car with fatal gunshot wounds on Monday afternoon.

The man who was shot dead while sitting in a car on a suburban Sydney street has been identified as Marvin Oraiha.