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Boxer ‘wrongfully’ convicted of murder goes from cause celebre to alleged tobacco boss (opens the original)
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A former championship boxer who spent nearly two decades trying to clear his name for a murder he claims he didn’t commit has been identified as the alleged head of a major illicit tobacco network worth millions of dollars. Khalid Baker, who won the Victorian Regional Cruiserweight title in 2019 in less than a year after serving a 13-year prison sentence, has allegedly been hiding overseas from a warrant for his arrest as part of a major state and federal law enforcement operation. Baker became
Hitmen who executed gangland enforcer Gavin Preston spared life in prison (opens the original)
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The two-man hit team who murdered underworld enforcer Gavin Preston have been sentenced to 34 years in prison over the gangland execution and attempted murder of his associate. But Jaeden Tito, 25, and Rabii Zahabe, 26, received a reprieve from life behind bars due to their young age, despite what the judge called a “meticulously planned” contract killing that flouted society’s most basic human values. Supreme Court judge Michael O’Connell handed down the sentence nearly three years to the day a
Footy blockbuster’s vital role in mushroom killer Erin Patterson’s appeal (opens the original)
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A clash between footy arch rivals Carlton and Collingwood is at the centre of accusations from Erin Patterson’s legal team that protected information on jury deliberations was leaked to the media. New documents show the mushroom murderer’s defence team claim a number of potential irregularities occurred during the jury’s seven-day sequestration at a popular Gippsland hotel while they were deciding Patterson’s fate. Communications between defence solicitors Doogue & George and Juries Commissioner
He infamously left jail in a Rolls-Royce. Now a key player in Melbourne’s tobacco wars is back behind bars (opens the original)
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Chatting in a Mercedes-Benz has led to the downfall of one of the top-ranked lieutenants of the organised crime syndicate The Commission, who has been jailed for orchestrating a series of firebombings at the height of the tobacco war in 2023. Majid Alibadi, who was once infamously picked up from remand by a Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini sent by kingpin Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, has been convicted of staging a string of arson attacks against the interests of rival gangland boss Fadi Haddara on behalf of t
Erin Patterson, the jury hotel and the missing CCTV (opens the original)
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The judge in the Erin Patterson trial was so concerned about whether the jury had been protected from outside influence during its deliberations that he instructed authorities to try to preserve CCTV from the regional hotel where jurors were sequestered for six days. What happened when the 12-person jury was sequestered in the same Gippsland hotel alongside police, prosecutors and media in July 2025 has become a central point in Patterson’s appeal against conviction for three murders and one att
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