Stabbings

A judge at the Old Bailey rules Ioan Alexandru-Pintaru, who stabbed a young Australian girl in Leicester Square last year, will be detained at a mental hospital indefinitely. 

One of two women stabbed in an attack at the Australian National University two years ago tells the ACT Supreme Court she will never feel safe again.

A gang of youths armed with knives and an axe travelled across Perth to carry out a "premeditated" attack at a Perth high school that left a 15-year-old boy with stab wounds, a court hears.

A teenage boy is taken to hospital after being stabbed in the arm in a "targeted" knife attack that saw a Perth high school go into lockdown on Monday afternoon.

The Elizabeth City Centre shopping centre was placed in lockdown with shoppers evacuated on Friday afternoon after an alleged fight that left two males with "critical" and "life-threatening" injuries.

A 63-year-old man charged with murder (domestic violence) is due to face Cairns Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Prosecutors are "likely" to consider asking for the case against two teenagers charged over a stabbing — which sent an Adelaide shopping centre into lockdown — to be moved to an adult court.

Superintendent Amit Sareen says SA Police believe a stabbing incident at Elizabeth City Centre in Adelaide was not a random attack.

A lawyer representing one of the bereaved families took aim at the owner and operator of Westfield, saying they were "extremely disappointed".

The counsel assisting the coroner says Joel Cauchi's former psychiatrist showed an "exceptional level of belligerence and confrontation" at the inquest.

NSW Police said two young boys were at a reserve at Rouse Hill when they were approached by three other boys about 4:20pm on Monday.

Five people have now been charged with murder over a fatal stabbing on the NSW South Coast, after a 48-year-old man was arrested at a local hospital over the weekend. 

Police continue their investigation into the suspected murder of Gordon Kessey on the NSW far south coast, looking for a missing blade in nearby wetlands.

In sentencing the man to life behind bars on Friday, the Northern Territory Supreme Court's highest judge described the victim's death as a "profound tragedy".

A jury has unanimously found Steven John guilty of murdering his wife when he stabbed her in the back following a drunken argument in 2023.

Evidence has concluded in the three-day murder trial of a man who fatally stabbed his wife following an argument in a Northern Territory remote community.

Police investigating a mass stabbing on a train bound for London on Saturday say there is nothing to suggest it was a terrorist attack.

The data is included in the findings into the death of 15-year-old Solomone Taufe'ulungaki, who died after being chased by a gang who thought he was a member of a rival group.

Friends and family have gathered in Victoria's east to remember the life of a beloved young man who died in an alleged attack on the weekend.

Two 17-year-olds have been charged in relation to the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old man on a suburban street in Grafton on the NSW North Coast.