Talissa Siganto
Talissa Siganto is an ABC journalist based in Brisbane since early 2017. She studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology. Follow her on twitter @TalissaSiganto
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Man who killed elderly Brisbane couple before being shot by police was 'absolutely radicalised', inquest hears
The 22-year-old was fatally shot by officers on the side of a Queensland motorway after he came toward them holding a knife.
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Convicted killer, once one of Australia's most wanted fugitives, pleads guilty to Gold Coast stabbing
Michael Davidson Tillman was originally arrested in September 2010 and charged with attempted murder.
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'She is not the victim here': Woman to be released from prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter of partner in violent fight
Liddel Ramsey was originally charged with the murder of Delroy Bin-Garape in 2019, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Thursday.
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Teenage killers of Queensland 15-year-old suffered 'miscarriage of justice' and will be retried, court rules
Angus Beaumont died after he was stabbed in the chest in Redcliffe in March 2020.
Radicalised foreign fighter who joked about beheadings jailed for eight years
Agim Ajazi travelled into Syria with an intention to "overthrow the Syrian government by force" and "establish a state government by Sharia law", the Queensland Supreme Court heard.
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'Still no answers': Man who went missing in outback Queensland unlikely to have survived, court hears
The 27-year-old was last seen walking away from a campsite near the remote town of Noccundra in outback Queensland in October 2021.
Man who burned ex-girlfriend's new partner with 'improvised flamethrower' given immediate parole
The court heard Glenn Paul Scriven sprayed another man's face with an aerosol can of wasp killer before taking out a lighter during a confrontation between the two.
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Teenager who stabbed 16-year-old boy to death outside his Sunshine Coast home found guilty of manslaughter
Balin Stewart died after being stabbed once in the heart by the teenager during a physical altercation outside his Buddina home in January last year.
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Man who 'clubbed' estranged wife over the head with 1.8kg sledgehammer pleads not guilty to murder
Shaun Sturgess is on trial for the domestic violence murder of his estranged wife Jacqueline in April 2020.
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Detective believed crash that killed mother and four children was 'retaliation' against husband, inquest told
The inquest is examining the cause of a collision on the Bunya Highway in May 2019, which killed two boys and two girls, all aged six and under, and their mother, Charmaine McLeod.
'It didn't feel like I'd stabbed him': Defendant tells court he didn't mean to kill 16-year-old Balin Stewart
A teenage boy on trial for the murder of a 16-year-old boy on the Sunshine Coast has admitted he previously expressed he wanted to kill him, but told a jury this was "an empty threat".
Inquest hears Charmaine McLeod claimed husband raped her and her children in years prior to fatal crash
Charmaine Harris McLeod, her two daughters, Aaleyn, 6, and Matilda, 5, and her two sons Wyatt, 4, and Zaidok, 2, died after their car collided with a truck near Kingaroy in May, 2019.
Death of woman and her four children in crash cannot be 'simply dismissed' as murder-suicide, inquest hears
The circumstances surrounding the death of the family is being examined at an inquest which started in Brisbane on Wednesday.
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'He's asleep, let him go': Inquest to investigate police actions in Indigenous man's death in custody
By Talissa Siganto and Scout Wallen
A police officer involved in the arrest of an Indigenous Queensland man told his colleague to "choke this c**t out" shortly before he died, a court hears.
Teenager pleads not guilty to stabbing murder of 16-year-old Sunshine Coast boy Balin Stewart
Crown Prosecutor Rebecca Marks tells a Supreme Court jury there had been years of hostility between the two boys which stemmed from their association with a teenage girl.
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Faulty brakes on mining equipment involved in worker death 'could have been detected pre incident', judge finds
A central Queensland mine operator has been cleared of breaching workplace health and safety laws over the death of a miner, despite a court ruling there was an "obvious" risk with faulty machinery.
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Queensland man intended to 'overthrow the Syrian government by force', court hears
The Supreme Court hears Ajazi travelled to Türkiye with his family in mid-2013, and then used that country as a base to "go back and forth" across the border into Syria from early 2014.
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Officers who shot man with schizophrenia after he stabbed tourist in Brisbane claim self-defence
Two senior constables shot Ikraam Bahram, 24, shortly after he stabbed a tourist in the back in Brisbane in February 2020.
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Teen loses appeal against sentence for hit-and-run killing of Queensland couple and their unborn baby
Last year the teen pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Katherine Leadbetter — who was 24 weeks' pregnant — and her partner Matthew Field.
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'You can't play tennis with a pile of bones': Man who hit ex with a hatchet pleads not guilty to attempted murder
The 32-year-old pleads not guilty to this charge and an alternative of acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm, having admitted to causing the victim grievous bodily harm.
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New Zealand woman who stabbed man to death on Gold Coast over 'petty grievance' jailed for life
Freedom Anderson will be deported after serving her sentence, with the jury taking less than an hour to make a decision.
Man who 'hunted' teenage girl 'like an animal' at Aldi with bow and arrow jailed for 10 and a half years
The court heard the girl suffered hand and torso injuries during a "premeditated and purposeful attack" by the man at an Aldi in Booval.
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Two involved in Gleneagle drug debt killing released from custody after pleading guilty to manslaughter
At the time four men and a woman - who were all known to Mr Menzel - were charged with his murder, including 25-year-old Phoenix Nugent and 32-year-old Matthew David Taylor.
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Trial of woman accused of convincing her lover to kill ex-partner and put body through woodchipper aborted
The trial, which was expected to run for a month, was abruptly halted on Monday afternoon, with Justice Peter Callaghan telling the jurors there had been testimony given to the court which should not have.
Man who shot two people claimed there would be '$500 for every bullet' which hit one of them
Brisbane man Brendyn Clark is on trial for the attempted murder of Adrian Hing in June 2019.