Erin Pearson
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on crime and legal proceedings: The reporter consistently covers criminal cases, trials, and legal outcomes, often emphasizing the judicial process and evidence.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 18
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Brisbane Times
- Top 100K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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A doctor filmed Alice without her consent. The law stopped her knowing who he was (opens the original)
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No one asked Alice* how she felt about the man charged with covertly filming her showering at a public pool, being kept a secret. She didn’t know his name or what he looked like; only that he was a 49-year-old doctor who lived in Hawthorn – the same suburb where Alice worked. After the man was charged, 25-year-old Alice says she spent her lunch breaks glancing around at every man who walked by, contemplating if any of these people could be the one who allegedly filmed her under a stall door with
Supreme Court chief shoots down teen’s bail bid for violent home invasion (opens the original)
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The state’s most senior justice has drawn a line in the sand for releasing child offenders on bail after refusing to free a teenager accused of a violent home invasion on an innocent family. Chief Justice Richard Niall, the head of the Victorian Supreme Court, told the 17-year-old boy that despite his age, stable accommodation, family support, a pending apprenticeship and a long delay before trial he had not reached the bar of exceptional circumstances to warrant his release. The safety of the c
Police officer filed false paperwork to try to land an innocent man in jail (opens the original)
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A police officer who tried to falsely prosecute an innocent Victorian man must perform community service after a judge found the conduct threatened to erode the public’s trust in the justice system. Thomas Horsburgh, 35, filed a brief of evidence he knew to be false while he was working as a senior constable out of Drouin police station in 2020. In sentencing Horsburgh, County Court judge Stewart Bayles noted police held considerable power over the community. “[This] is inherently serious offend
Ralph Carr sobs as he is sentenced to six years on rape, sex assault charges (opens the original)
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Talent manager Ralph Carr has been sentenced to six years in jail with a non-parole period of four years for the rape and sexual assault of a woman more than 30 years his junior. The 66-year-old shook his head and sobbed at times, with his head bowed for much of Judge Frank Gucciardo’s sentencing remarks, which spanned almost an hour. When the jail term was announced, he moved his face out of view of the video link camera. In coming days, Carr is expected to be moved to Hopkins Correctional Cent
The mushroom-foraging claim at the heart of Erin Patterson’s appeal (opens the original)
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Death cap mushroom killer Erin Patterson’s interest in picking and eating wild mushrooms was at the centre of her appeal on Thursday, after her legal team argued she was effectively forced to enter the witness box during her trial to explain why she had lied to police. It came as the prosecution advanced its own appeal late in the afternoon, seeking to eliminate Patterson’s chances of release after 33 years and instead have her held behind bars for life due to the nature of her crimes. On the se
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