Just after 2am on October 12, 2023 an ambulance raced to WA’s main maximum security prison Casuarina.  

A 16-year-old boy had self-harmed inside his cell at the notorious Unit 18 – the juvenile facility located within the grounds of the adult prison.  

The teen was rushed to hospital where was put on life support. One week later, surrounded by family, he took his final breath.  

After his death was grief. From his family, his friends and the community.  

But there was also outrage. How could this happen? Calls for change became deafening shouts.  

An inquiry was held and the revelations uncovered shocked the state.  

That boy’s name was Cleveland Dodd.  

Senior reporter Rebecca LeMay joins host Tim Clarke to walk through the Coronial inquest into Cleveland’s death.

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Kimberley Heptinstall was 32, the life of party. Everyone’s friend. 

She and her partner Travis Barnard met online and got engaged in June 2017.  

Until, after a planned elective surgery, Kim lost her life. Suddenly, tragically. 

The loss devastated her family. And left her partner bereaved, and apparently grieving. 

What Barnard did on the day his partner died in 2019 led him into court this week. 

Actions that to anyone who has lost someone too young are hard to hear, and hard to believe. 

Criminal lawyer Damien Cripps joins Tim Clarke to discuss all aspects of the case. 

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Blood, violence and death seem to follow the name Edhouse. 

Father and son Andrew and Robert are both bikies and linked to a string of gruesome crimes – including the disappearance of Kalgoorlie woman Lisa Govan.

Andrew Edhouse, one of WA’s most notorious bikies in the late 90s,  was a member of one of the “most secretive” bikie clubs in Australia - the Club Deroes.

In the late 1990s Perth was in the grip of a war between the Club Deroes and the Coffin Cheaters.

One casualty was Coffin Cheater Marc Chabriere, shot dead in his car in Welshpool. Edhouse was accused of his murder but later found not guilty.

The son, Robert Edhouse was also a bikie - the Perth leader of a group called Aryan Nations.

The neo-nazi was convicted along with his lover Melanie Attwood of the brutal murder of her ex-partner Alan Taylor in 2016. A crime Harvey describes as “full metal psycho behaviour”.

The West Australian's chief reporter and Up Late host Ben Harvey joins host Tim Clarke to explore the violent worlds of two members of one family, which collided in one shocking courtroom outburst. 

And could come together again before a coroner in a few short months. 

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It started as a way to create memories to last a lifetime. An experienced pilot, two excited 12-year-old girls and a family friend on a joy flight over Broome’s iconic coastline.

But it quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare as the Robinson R44 Raven chopper plunged to the ground seconds after take-off, right in front of their loved ones eyes.

On board that flight was award-winning tourism operator and Broome identity Troy Thomas, his daughter Mia, her school friend Amber Millar and education assistant and friend of the families Maddison Down.

Troy, who was piloting the helicopter and Amber were killed. Mia and Maddison left clinging to life.

A community was in shock and an investigation began.

What it revealed would shock the tourism industry and leave Amber Millar’s grieving family desperate for answers.

The Nightly’s investigative journalist Kristen Shorten joins Tim Clarke to unpack the case.

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Versace is a name dripped with glamour, and wealth, and glitz, and fame. 

But the reality of the death of a man who bore it was a lot grimier than the Italian fashion house which made it famous.  

Joseph Rodney Versace. A man with bikie links. Shot in the head. Dead – in a shed, north of Perth. 

The gunman, Joshua Duperouzel, also with bikie links, made his escape in a black Beemer with the number plate ‘666’. 

And he stayed on the run for days, before turning himself in the most bizarre way.

Former court reporter for Seven News Perth Syan Vallance joins host Tim Clarke to break down the case of The State of Western Australia vs Joshua Colin Duperouzel.

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It’s the case that’s dominated the Australian consciousness.

The alleged murders of a couple – Jesse Baird and Luke Davies – by another man. A NSW cop. Beau Lamarre-Condon.  

A double homicide, in Jesse’s home. In cold blood. With a gun, that was police issue.

Jesse Baird was allegedly Mr-Lamarre Condon’s obsession. A love interest spurned, which has allegedly led to the unthinkable. 

Seven Network senior reporter Robert Ovadia joins Tim Clarke to discuss the case.  

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Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – has said the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange.

Assange took his final appeal against extradition to the United States to the UK’s highest court this week – a last bid to stop him being sent across the Atlantic to face espionage charges.

Those charges stem from the Wikileaks releases of hundreds of thousands of US military documents in 2010 and 2011.

And since then, Assange has fought off allegations that he put lives at risk with his online leaks, alongside allegations of sexual assault against two women in Sweden.

The Swedish allegations fell away as Assange hid away in Ecuador’s embassy in London.

But the US have never gone away, and this week argued that Assange should be sent to their country to face their justice system.

Greste joins host Tim Clarke to discuss the many intricacies of this long-running case.

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It’s a spin-off from the original drama Brittany Higgins versus Bruce Lehrmann.

Veteran TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson took on her former employer Network 10 over her decision to get her own lawyers. And over what those lawyers cost.

It all stems from the interview Wilkinson conducted with Higgins on The Project in 2021, where Lehrmann was accused of rape.

And that Logies speech, which forced the delay of the criminal trial of Lehrmann.

There was more explosive testimony from Wilkinson, revealing the inner workings of the TV station, in a bid to make her former employers pay.

Jenna Clarke, associate editor of The Australian joins host Tim Clarke to discuss the latest spin-off in the case that has consumed Canberra and Australia’s media.

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He was one of the biggest figures in Melbourne’s Underbelly. She was his lawyer. And, as it turns out, the biggest snitch of all.  

Tony Mokbel is widely regarded as the organiser of Melbourne’s methamphetamine business.

And in 2006 he became Australia’s most wanted man, escaping the country on a yacht bound for Greece. He was caught a year later, wearing what would become the most famous wig in Australian crime.

Beside him through all of it was Nicola Gobbo. A prominent Melbourne lawyer she acted for many of the underworld, including Carl Williams.

But unbeknown to them, she was simultaneously acting for another- Melbourne Police.

Years of informing on her clients earned her the nickname Lawyer X and the police several high-profile collars.

But she couldn’t stay secret for long. The scandal rocked Australia. Criminals started appealing convictions, on the basis Gobbo’s evidence was tainted.

Including Mokbel, in court this month appealing his sentence for serious drug charges.

Criminal lawyer Katherine Dowling joins Tim Clarke to comb through the history of Tony Mokbel and his extraordinary claims about the lawyer who used to defend him.  

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On October 1, 2000 two shots rang out in the darkness in the middle of nowhere.

The handful of Gypsy Jokers sitting around a campfire near the pub in the tiny Goldfields town of Ora Banda hit the deck.

One wasn’t so lucky. Billy Grierson caught a bullet in the chest and bled to death.

The owner of the pub, former CIB detective Don Hancock insisted he had nothing to do with the death.

The Jokers were not convinced.

Bombing after bombing followed Griersons death. Hancock refused witness protection.

And then came the act that rocked the State & changed WA forever.

The West Australian’s bikie whisperer, chief reporter and host of Up Late, Ben Harvey, joins Tim Clarke to dissect the murder of Billy Grierson, and the terrifying fallout which followed.

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