Inside the secret lives of Australia's 'Crazy Rich Chinese' students whose wild spending rivals the mysterious Rolls-Royce-driving LanLan: JONICA BRAY
The details are extraordinary: LanLan Yang, 23, was allegedly drunk when police say she veered the $1million car onto the wrong side of the road and slammed into a Mercedes van, writing it off.
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The Independent
33 minutes ago
- The Independent
Chinese woman becomes third person charged under Australia's foreign interference laws
A Chinese citizen was charged Monday under Australia's recent foreign interference laws with covertly collecting information about an Australian Buddhist association, police said. The woman, an Australian permanent resident based in the capital Canberra, is only the third person charged since the laws were passed in 2018 and the first to be accused of interferring with the general population, Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt police said. She was charged in a Canberra court with covertly gathering information about a local branch of the Buddhist association Guan Yin Citta on behalf of the Public Security Bureau of China. The association is banned in China. Police have not detailed her alleged objectives. 'We allege the activity was to support intelligence objectives of the China's Public Security Bureau. This is the first time the AFP has charged a person with foreign interference that allegedly involves targeting members of the Australian community,' Nutt told reporters. 'Foreign interference is a serious crime that undermines democracy and social cohesion. It is a crime carried out by or on behalf of a foreign principal that involves covert and deceptive conduct or threats of serious harm or menacing demands,' Nutt added. The woman, who was arrested at her home Saturday, cannot be named publicly due to a court order. She was remanded in custody and faces a maximum 15 years in prison if convicted. The Chinese Embassy in Canberra did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment. She is the first foreign national to be charged under the sweeping laws that created a rift between Australia and China when they were first announced in 2017. Vietnam-born Melbourne businessman and local community leader Di Sanh Duong was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison last year over an attempt to influence a former federal government minister on behalf of China. Sydney businessman Alexander Csergo also was charged with foreign interference for allegedly accepting payments for information from two suspected Chinese spies. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, said the nation's main domestic spy agency had made a signficant contribution to the latest arrest. 'Foreign interference of the kind alleged is an appalling assault on Australian values, freedoms and sovereignty,' Burgess said in a statement. The charge comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mends bilateral relations with China that plumbed new lows under the previous Australian administration over issues including foreign interference laws. Albanese traveled to Beijing last month to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the fouth time since the Australian leader was first elected in 2022.
Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Watch the critical video evidence used to convict mushroom cook killer Erin Patterson - as CCTV and her police interview is made public for the first time
The full video of Erin Patterson dumping her food dehydrator has been released by the Supreme Court of Victoria a month after she was found guilty of three murders. CCTV footage shows Patterson visiting Koonwarra transfer station in rural Victoria on August 2, 2023, four days after she served four guests a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms. The day before a camera captured Patterson dumping the device, she had left hospital after complaining of gastrointestinal problems. Patterson is shown driving her red SUV to the transfer station and parking it outside the tip, then removing the dehydrator from the vehicle. She walks inside a shed, drops off the dehydrator, returns to her car and drives away. The device was later found to contain traces of death cap mushrooms. The court previously released photos of the dehydrator used to dry out the deadly ingredient before she used it to kill her in-laws. Patterson had pleaded not guilty to the murders of her former husband's parents Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, but a jury found her guilty. The trio died after consuming death cap mushrooms served in beef Wellingtons during lunch at Patterson's home in Leongatha, 135km southeast of Melbourne, on July 29, 2023. Patterson was found guilty on July 7 of three murders and of attempting to murder a fourth lunch guest, Pastor Ian Wilkinson, who survived. Pictures and video tendered during Patterson's 10-week trial have gradually been released by the court since the guilty verdicts. Images of the toxic beef Wellington and the table where Patterson served her deadly lunch have emerged, as well as CCTV footage of the moment she discharged herself from hospital. A second video made public on Monday shows Patterson sitting at her dining table opposite Detective Sergeant Luke Farrell from the homicide squad. 'Thanks for your patience today, Erin,' Detective Sergeant Farrell says. 'We're completing our search.' 'The only outstanding item is that mobile phone that you've got there. So I'll seize that now from you.' Patterson hands over her Samsung phone and is then asked for her access code. Videos and images shown to the jury had been withheld from the media until verdicts were reached. One previously released video showed Patterson calmly walk into a BP service station where she was seen entering the toilet for nine seconds. Patterson had driven her son to his flying lesson in Tyabb the day after the fatal meal, stopping at the petrol station in Caldermeade along the way. Dressed in white pants, while claiming to be suffering from 'explosive diarrhoea', Patterson was seen wandering about the service station, stopping to buy treats, a ham, cheese and tomato sandwich, and a sweet chilli chicken wrap. Other footage showed Patterson leaving the Leongatha hospital after complaining of nausea and diarrhoea. She discharged herself against medical advice about five minutes after arriving at hospital at 8.05am. So concerned was a doctor about her welfare that he was forced to phone the police to try and get her to return. Police arrived at her home shortly after Patterson returned to the hospital about 10am. Told by Patterson where to find the leftovers, the officers drove the deadly meal back to the hospital, where it was inspected by Dr Veronica Foote, before being transferred for further examination by Monash Health emergency registrar Laura Muldoon. The court was also shown the CCTV vision of Patterson at the tip where she dumped the dehydrator as well images of sliced mushrooms laying on a metal tray taken from the device. The images were taken by Patterson and extracted from her devices. Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria mycologist Tom May told the jury he could not 'exclude the possibility these are death cap mushrooms'. On August 5, 2023, police executed a search warrant on Patterson's Leongatha home, seizing various electronic devices and photographing the scene of the crime. Patterson's defence had tried to suggest police had missed her phone during that search, which they claimed could be seen in one image in a black case. However, an image taken from Patterson's visit to hospital showed she kept the phone in a pink case. The phone was never located by police and likely dumped by Patterson in the days after the raid. The jury was also shown the cook book Patterson claimed to have based her vile beef Wellingtons on. She had lifted the recipe from a Recipetin Eats Dinner cookbook, but drastically changed the way the Wellingtons were made in order to execute her wicked plan. Instead of serving one complete log of Wellington, Patterson changed the recipe to make individual pasties, serving her 'safe' Wellington on a different coloured plate to insure she wasn't accidentally poisoned too. Much was made of that plate during the trial, with Patterson's defence suggested Ian Wilkinson had made a mistake about the size and colour of his host's plate. But it was an observation made by her other lunch guests, who lived long enough to tell the tale before they died slow and agonising deaths. Patterson herself had also taken to the witness box in a last ditch effort to save her skin. But her lies brought her undone time and time again. Ultimately, the jury decided it could not believe a word Patterson said and going off the evidence at hand had no doubt at all she had killed her guests in the coldest of ways. She will face a preliminary plea hearing at a date to be fixed before sentence where she is expected to receive a life sentence. Family members of the victims declined to speak after the verdict, asking for privacy in a statement issued through police. A lone friend of Patterson appeared overcome with emotion as she left the courthouse through a jostling media pack. 'I'm saddened. But it is what it is,' she told reporters.
BBC News
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- BBC News
Man dies after coach and car crash near Malvern
A man has died after a crash involving a coach and a car near Malvern on Sunday Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called at 16:09 BST to the A4103 near the junction with the B4220 in found the driver of the car in a critical condition, receiving CPR from police and fire service officers."Ambulance staff administered advanced life support but, sadly, it quickly became clear he could not be saved and was confirmed dead at the scene," a spokesperson said. "There were no occupants of the coach requiring medical assistance." Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
