‘I wouldn’t wish it on anybody,’ says his mum.

A South Australian father facing serious drug charges in Bali has apologised for his actions, his lawyer says.

Troy Smith from Port Lincoln was holidaying with his wife, Tracey, in the tourist hotspot last week when police raided his room at a resort in Legian near Kuta.

He was allegedly caught with methamphetamine.

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Troy Smith's lawyer has told 9News he is depressed and stressed by the lengthy potential jail term hanging over him.

"He's crying, he's crying. He's a man but he is crying," his lawyer said in Bali.

"He's very sorry and he's not meaning to do this, he regret."

Smith has been locked up in Bali for 10 days and is facing allegations of drug possession, a charge that carries a maximum 12-year prison sentence in Indonesia.

He and his wife were both arrested after officers allegedly uncovered 3.19 grams of crystal meth in an envelope mailed from Cairns.

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The envelope was allegedly addressed to Smith, with the sender writing that private paperwork, photos and lubricant were also included. 

A bong was also allegedly found in the villa. 

His lawyer earlier in the week told 9News Smith confessed to possessing the meth, which was stashed inside a toothpaste tube.

His wife has been released without charge.

The Australian government is providing consular assistance.

9News reached out to Queensland police to see if they were investigating who sent the drugs and if any arrests had been made but they could not provide an update.

An Adelaide mother and son have narrowly escaped a catastrophic house fire that erupted in the middle of the night.

The incident unfolded when Bec Woolhouse was in the bathroom as flames engulfed the bedroom of her Blair Athol home. 

A smoke alarm jolted her sleeping son, Nic, awake, prompting a frantic escape from the fire.

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"I really thought I was going to die," Nic told 9News.

Bec was grateful she wasn't sleeping when the blaze erupted.

"A house you can rebuild but life you can't, so I'm pretty lucky in that aspect that I wasn't asleep," she said.

But she's been left without a home and with a $50,000 damage bill.

"Everything just went up really quick, I lost photos of my family and my kids and stuff that were up on the wall," she said.

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The fire that ripped through the front of the house drew the attention of neighbours who were awakened by the commotion just after 2am. 

"(I saw) the flames shooting out and just jumped straight onto the phone to ring the fire brigade," witness Malcolm said.

The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) suspects the fire was likely started by a faulty phone charger that overheated. 

Firefighters issued a warning to always use a charger that comes with a device or one that's been certified by a manufacturer.

"Otherwise it could lead to catastrophic structure fires like the one that we had last night," an MFS spokesperson said.

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.

A tornado has flipped cars and ripped roofs from homes and a recreation centre in Western Australia's south-west.

At least 40 calls were made to emergency services after the tornado struck about 4pm in Bunbury, roughly two hours south of Perth.

It's believed the tornado tore through a recreation centre with dozens of children inside in the southern suburb of Withers.

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Four St John Ambulance crews were on scene at the centre.

About 6000 homes were without power this evening.

"I just could see all this debris in the sky and I thought that's a bloody twister," a resident told 9News.

"The closer I got I could see sheds, I could see trampolines, and the noise and the wind and the rain.

"It's just unbelievable. It's what you see on the movies."

Bunbury Regional Prison was also impacted with one prisoner taken to hospital.

Multiple accommodation blocks in the minimum security section were damaged but the site has been secured.

Residents are being warned about flash flooding that may follow the storm in the area.

Fourteen jurors have been discharged in the murder trial of an airline captain accused of killing missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay at a campsite in Victoria's alpine region.

Greg Lynn, 57, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and a jury was empanelled in Melbourne's Supreme Court yesterday.

Lawyers from both sides were due to open their cases this morning, however Justice Michael Croucher informed the six women and eight men they would have to be discharged.

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A new panel of jurors will be chosen on Monday morning.

The trial is set to last for between four and six weeks, and jurors will be tasked with coming to a unanimous verdict about whether Lynn is guilty of two counts of murder.

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Bruce Lehrmann has been ordered to pay almost all of Ten's multimillion-dollar legal bill after his doomed defamation case against the network.

In April, the ex-Liberal staffer suffered a massive legal loss after the Federal Court found an allegation that he raped Brittany Higgins in a Parliament House office in March 2019 was most likely true.

The 28-year-old had sued for defamation over a February 2021 report on The Project, in which journalist Lisa Wilkinson interviewed Higgins over the rape allegation.

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Since the findings against Lehrmann, the parties have been in dispute over the legal costs and who should foot what is expected to amount to a sizeable legal bill for the long-running and high-profile case.

On Friday afternoon, Justice Michael Lee found in favour of Ten's application for indemnity costs for most of the trial. 

Lehrmann was ordered to pay for the network's and Wilkinson's costs on an ordinary and indemnity basis, but he will not have to pay costs for some affidavits.

"In the end, it comes down to the order for costs that best does overall justice in the circumstances," Lee told the court.

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"On balance, the appropriate exercise of discretion is to make an award that Network Ten recover its costs against Mr Lehrmann on an indemnity basis, except for costs incurred in relation to the statutory qualified privilege defence."

In explaining his decision, the judge said he found Lehrmann had defended the criminal charge "on a false basis, lied to police, and then allowed that lie to go uncorrected before the jury".

"He wrongly instructed his senior counsel to cross-examine a complainant of sexual assault, in two legal proceedings, including, relevantly for present purposes, this case, on a knowingly false premise," he said.

Lehrmann denies he sexually assaulted Higgins and was not convicted in a criminal trial. 

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The total amount he will have to pay will be determined at a hearing later in May.

Lee also noted "there are no real winners" in the case.

"Of course, with the predictability of an atomic clock, partisans have focused solely on those parts of the judgment that happen to align with preconceived notions," he said. 

He accused Ten's lawyers of going on a "victory tour" after his judgment was delivered in April.

Earlier in the week, the court heard Lehrmann had no financial backers and that his lawyers had agreed they did not need to be paid if he lost the case.

The costs matter will return to the court for a case management hearing on May 27.

Lehrmann has until May 31 to appeal the defamation case finding.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

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