The Latest Breaking News from Ian Bourke

Rodney Grills claims he got little financial reward from his drug supply operation.

A former nurse will spend years in jail after being found guilty of rape and molesting charges relating to a student and patients under his care.

A judge says people would find it hard to believe the actions which caused a teenage boy's death — allegedly over a pair of headphones — inside a Western Sydney home two years ago.

A man has been jailed after falsely saying the fatal bashing of a teen in western Sydney was done by two "Sudanese males" and not a group of youths he knew.

Judge Ian Bourke accepted the former policeman was searching for the sexually suggestive images for personal use not disseminating to others, but noted children are abused in the creation of such material, a court hears.

A former police sergeant showed no contrition or remorse after he accessed thousands of images depicting child abuse, the judge who sent him to prison said.

"I grew up in Newcastle loving the Knights and always wanting to play for them."

Serial paedophile Edward Smith "Ted" Hall, it appears, will go to his grave maintaining everyone else, all of his accusers, are lying.

The man, then a 15-year-old boy in 1974, another victim of Former St Pius X teacher Edward Smith "Ted" Hall, sat in a witness box and recounted how his life had changed so dramatically after being abused by Hall on a shooting trip in remote bushland.