No jail for Carl Williams' former bodyguard.

Carl Williams' former bodyguard has been spared jail after pleading guilty to assaulting police, possessing heroin and a string of driving offences.

Magistrate dismisses assault and theft charges against airman, finds spiked drink to blame.

A RAAF airman with no criminal record abused a taxi driver, stole his cab, walked in front of a police car in the dark and refused to take a breath-test in a bizarre chain of events on the peninsula.

Bail over $1.5m heist from warehouse

A FATHER and son exchanged phone calls about an extraordinary $1.5million heist from a storage warehouse, a court has been told.

Picture: Andrew Brownbill, Herald Sun

Bob Jane riot cowards put to work

A BAYING mob who went on a rampage in suburbia after a drag racing meeting was cancelled were cowards who had undermined democracy, a magistrate said.

Drug blunder cost millions

THE chief cook of an ecstasy cartel cost the gang millions of dollars by not properly reading recipe instructions and mistakenly throwing out base oil as waste product, according to police.

Couple faked Rover Thomas paintings, court told.

A married couple from the Melbourne suburb of Toorak allegedly created six paintings in the style of celebrated indigenous artist Rover Thomas and passed them off as originals to auction houses where they were snapped up by unwitting wealthy collectors, the Victorian County Court was told yesterday.

Tom Sawyer LLB

Tom Sawyer is a defence lawyer who practices exclusively in defending all criminal and traffic offences.

Tom has appeared at all stages of the legal process including committal hearings and criminal trials.