A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder following a deadly crash that killed an Uber passenger in Brisbane last week.

Ryan Grafton, 30, died when another car crashed into the ridesharing vehicle he was travelling in about 2.15am on Boundary Road at Wacol in Brisbane's south-west.

It's alleged a man driving a Ford Mondeo sped through a red light and ploughed into the Uber.

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It's alleged the driver of the Ford left the scene prior to police arrival.

Police released a photo of a man they wanted to speak with yesterday, leading Kai Fursey, 28, to present himself to Acacia Ridge police.

He was taken into custody without incident.

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Fursey has since been charged with murder, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm and driving whilst disqualified.

He has also been charged with possessing property suspected of having been used in connection with the commission of a drug offence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and two counts each of possessing dangerous drugs, receiving tainted property and stealing.

He is due before Brisbane Magistrates Court today.

Amanda Knox is expected to appear in person in an Italian court on Wednesday to defend herself in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Despite a murder conviction against a man whose DNA and footprints were found at the scene, and a 2015 high court verdict definitively clearing Knox and her short-time boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, doubt about her role persists, particularly in Italy, among members of Kercher's family and for the innocent man she accused.

That's partly because of wrongly pinning the murder on the owner of a bar where she worked.

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Here is a glance at the key details in the case:

Who is Amanda Knox?

Knox was a 20-year-old American student who had recently arrived in the university town of Perugia when her British roommate, Kercher, was found dead in her bedroom in the apartment they shared with two Italian roommates on November 2, 2007.

The murder grabbed worldwide attention as suspicion fell on Knox and Sollecito, with whom she had been involved for just about a week.

Headlines dubbing her "Foxy Knoxy" circled the globe, fuelled by sensational images of her and Sollecito in a tender moment outside the murder scene and in a store buying undergarments for Knox, whose apartment had become a crime scene.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted in their first trial but after another round of flip-flop verdicts, they were ultimately exonerated by Italy's highest court in 2015.

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What is the slander case?

Knox was accused of slandering the Congolese bar owner who employed her part-time, based on two statements typed by police that she signed during a long night of questioning just days after the killing.

She recanted in a four-page handwritten note the next afternoon, but the memo showed her confusion as she attempted to reconcile the signed statements with her own conflicting recollections.

During her first trial, Knox said police pressure led her to initially accuse an innocent man.

The slander conviction and three-year sentence remained until the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Knox's rights had been violated during questioning without a lawyer or qualified translator.

Based on that ruling, Italy's highest court threw out the conviction last November and ruled the two statements typed by police were inadmissible.

It ordered a new trial, stipulating the court examine only Knox's handwritten statement for elements to support slander.

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Who is Patrick Lumumba?

Patrick Lumumba is the Congolese bar owner who employed Knox part-time.

He was arrested and held as a suspect in the murder, based on the overnight interrogation of Knox, and despite her hand-written statement later recanting the accusation.

Due to the notoriety in the case, Lumumba has left Italy and is living in eastern Europe with family.

Lumumba has joined the current prosecution as a civil party, as is allowed by Italian law, and continues to believe Knox had a role in the murder.

Who is Rudy Hermann Guede?

Rudy Hermann Guede was convicted of Kercher's murder in a fast-track trial that foresees a lesser sentence.

A drifter who was living in Perugia, Guede was arrested in Germany where he fled after the murder.

He initially told a friend in a wiretapped call that Knox had nothing to do with the crime, but after being returned to Italy blamed Knox and denied involvement.

He was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term that included a ruling that he did not act alone.

Guede was recently ordered to wear a monitoring bracelet and not leave his home at night after an ex-girlfriend accused him of physical and sexual abuse. An investigation was ongoing.

Who was Meredith Kercher?

Meredith Kercher was a 21-year-old student from the University of Leeds who was embarking on a year of study in Perugia, living in a rented flat with Knox and two Italian roommates.

Friends, who called her "Mez", described her as "calm, sweet and shy".

The youngest of four children, she grew up on the outskirts of London.

She was last seen on the evening of November 1 having dinner with British friends at a nearby apartment.

Kercher's partially nude body was found November 2 with her throat slashed beneath a duvet in her locked bedroom.

How did Knox rebuild her life?

Knox returned to the United States after an appeals court threw out her first conviction in 2011, following four years behind bars.

While she hoped to resume her life as a college student, she was dogged by public scrutiny as her legal cases continued in Italy.

Now 36 and the mother of two small children, Knox campaigns for criminal justice reform and against forced confessions, drawing on her experience.

She has a podcast with her husband and a new limited series based on her best-selling book in development for Hulu that includes Monica Lewinsky among the executive producers.

She also has recorded a series on resilience for a meditation app, and is an aspiring comedian, recently posting a routine on Instagram riffing on motherhood.

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An app launching in Sydney tomorrow will offer a way for locals to save money on premium food while ensuring businesses don't waste products.

Foody Bag lets bakeries sell food that is left over at the end of the day for a 50 per cent discount, rather than just throwing it away.

App users save nearby stores in the app, and are then alerted directly when there's leftover food for sale.

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The app launched in Perth three years ago year and has already saved over 150,000 food items from ending up in the bin, Founder Stuart Kidd said.

"Food waste at the retailer level is huge…a retailer may lose anything from $20,000 to $200,000 worth of product per year."

Domestic food waste is also an issue, with the average Aussie throwing out 312kgs of food a year, which totals to about $2500, according to the Department of Environment.

Gluten-Free Wholegreen Bakery in Alexandria pumps out 500 baked goods a day.

"From apple crumble, Portugese tarts, lemon meringue, we do gorgeous cakes," Cherie Lyden from Wholegreen Bakery said.

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The bakery has been donating to OzHarvest for a decade and will continue to, but says the app is good for getting rid of the more unique items.

"Gluten-free eating…it's expensive  it will create products that are a little more affordable."

New research has found half of all Australian homes are at risk to natural disasters and high insurance premiums are leaving millions in danger.

According to Domain, about 5.6 million properties are at risk of bushfires, almost 1 million at risk of floods and thousands more threatened by coastal erosion.

In some states, as many as two thirds of all properties are in danger.

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The NSW suburb of Ballina has the highest flood risk in the country, Victoria's Upper Yarra Valley has the highest bushfire risk and Queensland's Surfers Paradise has the biggest coastal erosion threat.

A future housing forum today found there was a shocking lack of awareness among Australians.

"We found that just 29 per cent of Australians know the risks associated with their homes when faced against a natural disaster," Domain's head of research Nicola Powell said.

With the population growing and more people priced out of insurance, the threat of natural disasters seriously impacting homeowners is high.

"We are seeing more people live on perilous land in order to find a place to call home," Powell said.

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"If you're in one of those areas prone to either bushfire or flood chances are you've been hit with premium quote that's way above what can afford," Canstar group executive Steve Mickenbecker said.

"Secondly your insurer might have come to you and said 'look we're not prepared to renew'."

Industry leaders have said the growing crisis needs sectors and layers of governments to urgently find a solution.

"Often we find the property conversation and the climate change conversation are had in isolation. We really need those conversations to be happening together," Powell said.

He was impounded and facing possible destruction while his owner was taken to court.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to causing the death of SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens' son Charlie by careless driving.

In Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday, Dhirren Singh Randhawa, 18, pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of driving without due care.

Randhawa's guilty plea on that charge, and a separate charge of leaving the scene of a crash after causing death, were accepted by prosecutors, who withdrew charges of dangerous driving causing death and failing to answer a question of identity regarding the driver of a vehicle.

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The Encounter Bay teen struck Charlie Stevens, 18, with his car in Goolwa on November 17 last year, during schoolies week.

Stevens and his family were present in court for proceedings and outside court, the commissioner became emotional as he commented on the development.

"Today we have come to the magistrates court and we heard Dhirren plead guilty to aggravated due care causing death and leaving the scene of the collision," he said.

"This is one step in the process, there are a few more steps to go so I think it would be appropriate to say more at a later point in time.

"I think on behalf of our family we'd like to acknowledge that Dhirren has taken responsibility for his actions, that saw us lose our son Charlie. We've also been handed a letter of apology and we'll take time to read that. Thank you for your understanding."

Charlie Stevens died in hospital surrounded by friends and family, including his father, the following night.

More than 1000 mourners paid their respects to the apprentice tradie at an emotional memorial service at the Adelaide Oval later that month.

Randhawa was remanded on continuing bail to appear in the District Court in August for arraignment and sentencing.

He faces a maximum 12-month prison term and minimum six-month licence disqualification for the careless driving offence.

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Realising his plan to stay off the police radar was unravelling, Greg Lynn set fire to the remains of the two missing campers he is now accused of murdering.

Lynn's admission came in his hours-long interview with Victoria Police, which was played to a Supreme Court jury on Tuesday.

The former airline pilot is on trial, accused of murdering Mr Hill, 74, and Mrs Clay, 73, in March 2020.

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It's alleged Lynn killed the couple at Wonnangatta Valley, in the state's northeast, and then disposed of their bodies in bushland before coming back months later to burn the remains.

Lynn, 57, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.

In his November 2021 interview, Lynn told police Clay was accidentally shot in the head as he and Hill tussled over his shotgun.

Hill had taken Lynn's gun and was threatening to show police drone footage of the pilot hunting deer near their campsite, Lynn told the officers.

He claimed after Clay was shot, Hill then came at him with a knife and was stabbed in the chest in the ensuing tussle.

Lynn told police once he realised they were both dead, he used his experience as an airline pilot to formulate a plan to "save" himself.

"I was finding a really happy place in the world with family and career and my personal life outside of work, so this for me was a disaster," he said in the police interview.

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Lynn said he decided that covering up his connection to their deaths was the best course of action, so he loaded their bodies onto his trailer and burnt the campsite.

He then drove to the Union Spur track where he dumped their remains.

"The objective was not to make them disappear, it was to make me disappear," Lynn told police.

The pilot said he tried to go back to normal life but he started receiving some odd questions and then police came to his home in July 2020.

"I realised it was unravelling," Lynn said.

"I realised I had to go back … I had to wait for the (COVID-19) lockdowns to finish and the roads to open up, and I steeled myself for the task."

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Lynn told police in November 2020 he returned to the Union Spur track where he set fire to the remains of Hill and Clay.

He admitted he vomited several times as the bodies burned, saying the smell and the memories were confronting.

At the end of the police interview, Lynn remained emotionless as he was told he would be charged with the murders of Hill and Clay.

When asked if he had anything to say, he told police he was innocent of murder.

"I haven't behaved well," he said.

"I've made some poor decisions but murder, as I understand it, I'm innocent of."

Detective Senior Constable Brett Florence told the court police began tracking Lynn's car in December 2020, once Victoria's COVID-19 lockdown had ended.

The court heard they kept surveillance on the vehicle on-and-off through to November 2021, when they arrested and charged Lynn with the double murders.

A man accused of murdering his mother during a vicious attack has faced court after a police chase that ended with officers tasering him.

Harley James Jeffries, 33, appeared today in Armadale Magistrates Court in Western Australia.

He is accused of murdering his 61-year-old mother early on Sunday in a home in the Perth suburb of Byford.

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Police were called to the residence about 7am where they found the woman's body after Jeffries had allegedly fled the scene in a car.

Officers later spotted him travelling about an hour north of Perth on the Great Northern Highway near the town of Bindoon, police said.

The patrol tried to stop Jeffries but he evaded the officers and drove for another 100 kilometres before being brought to a stop with a tyre deflation device in the tiny town of Bindi Bindi about two hours north of Perth.

Jeffries, who was acting aggressively, then challenged police before being tasered and arrested, police said in a statement.

A 12-year-old girl is understood to have witnessed the woman's alleged murder.

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Premier Roger Cook described the incident as "a particularly violent and a particularly vicious attack".

"Our hearts go out to that family, but that young girl who actually, at this stage, appears to have witnessed that event must be incredibly traumatised by what she's seen," he told reporters.

"I'm so pleased, and once again, absolutely proud of our police force who have managed to apprehend someone."

Jeffries was remanded in custody to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on July 24 for mention.

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A man convicted of murdering his wife with a hammer claims retested DNA evidence on the weapon would have been of "extreme importance" to his trial's jury.

Queensland man Andrew John Cobby was found guilty in a 2021 trial of beating and strangling his estranged wife Kym, 51, outside her Gold Coast hinterland home in November 2017.

Cobby represented himself before the Brisbane Court of Appeal on Tuesday and spent several hours presenting what he said were six grounds for his guilty verdict should not stand and he should get a retrial.

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"Any and all fresh evidence, particularly in relation to forensic DNA, is of extreme importance … what would the jury make of the evidence before us today? Only the jury can make that determination," Cobby said.

Cobby said DNA retesting of the hammer that was presented at trial as the murder weapon had cast doubt over its link to a man he was living with at the time of Cobby's death.

The appeal justices were also shown pictures of the hammer which Cobby claimed showed that his housemate had incorrectly described its colour and shape.

Cobby, then aged 59, was sentenced to life imprisonment for what Justice Peter Callaghan said was a clearly premeditated and sickening crime.

He admitted being present during the attack on the woman he had married more than three decades earlier – although they mostly lived apart from 2003 – but denied being responsible.

Instead Cobby told police an unknown assailant was behind the killing, ambushing his wife as he was about to get into a red Chrysler he had borrowed.

During the appeal hearing, Matthew Hunt of the Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services DNA analysis unit, testified that the testing procedure had improved since the hammer and other exhibits were first tested.

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"The fact that we have more confirmed information and also the changes to the program have caused the new analysis to be different to the previous one," Hunt said.

Philip McCarthy KC told the appeal justices that the new DNA results for the hammer were not materially different from what was presented to the jury at trial, which was that Cobby's housemate's DNA was not found on the hammer.

"The evidence has largely remained unchanged … one of the probabilities we are looking at is in the millions and millions for the likelihood someone was a (DNA) contributor," McCarthy said.

McCarthy said other new DNA evidence assisted the prosecution's case as Ms Cobby's DNA had now been identified on the hammer's claw with a high probability.

"The reliance of the Crown on the hammer is one strand amid 13 strands of evidence, one of which being that Cobby's clothing was saturated with the blood of his wife," McCarthy said.

Appeal Justice Debra Mullins said the court would reserve its judgment for delivery at a later date.

Three people are facing trial over an elaborate fraud scheme that allegedly tried to cheat National Australia Bank out of more than $21 million through fake bank vouchers.

Monika Singh, 42, Davendar Deo, 68, and Srinivas Naidu Chamakuri, 51, attended Sydney's Downing Centre District Court today where a jury was chosen for the two-month-long trial.

The trio each pleaded not guilty to a slew of fraud-related charges and will fight the accusations against them.

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"In terms of the crown case, it concerns allegations that the accused … engaged in various fraudulent activities," said crown prosecutor Andrew Norrie.

"The majority of the counts on the indictment concern fraudulent activities which were directed towards National Australia Bank."

The three co-accused have been charged with knowingly participating in a criminal group between September 2018 and October 2020 with the intention of defrauding NAB.

They are all on bail with Chamakuri supported in court by his daughter on Tuesday.

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Singh and Chamakuri both face four counts of attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage.

They are accused of trying to defraud NAB in 2019 of almost $16.9 million by depositing internal suspense account vouchers from the bank without its authority.

Deo and Singh face a similar charge for trying to cheat NAB out of a further $4.8 million in this way.

The pair also allegedly conspired with each other to defraud iFRC Bank & Trust by using a fraudulent NAB stand-by letter of credit for $US50 million.

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Deo is facing a further charge of using identification information from a separate business to facilitate the fraud.

Between May 2017 and April 2018, Singh also allegedly attempted to defraud Volvo Trucks India through fraudulent bank guarantees from NAB.

After being selected, the jury of seven men and eight women heard brief directions from Judge Donna Woodburne.

Norrie will begin his opening submissions tomorrow.