He also endangered an Air NZ flight. ‘The potential for catastrophe was high,’ judge said.

A young West Australian man who was brutally stabbed in a Facebook Marketplace sale gone wrong has warned others.

WA Police are calling on the public to help find the attacker, who knifed the seller in broad daylight in a busy inner-city Perth suburb.

Will, 20, was stabbed in the stomach and thigh after the sale in Highgate went wrong.

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Eight days on, Will is still coming to terms with the severity of the attack.

"It's like something you see in the movies, you can't imagine what it's like," he told 9News.

"Luckily it didn't hit anything."

Will needed emergency surgery with doctors cutting him open to check his organs hadn't been punctured.

"I was out for about four or five hours and it was very excruciating for a few days following and I'm still in a bit of pain," he said.

The uni student had advertised more than $2000 worth of jewellery on the social media site and had arranged to meet the potential buyer near a cafe shortly after 10am last Thursday.

But the buyer had other plans, snatching the chain and taking off along Harley Street.

Security cameras captured Will chasing the thief moments before he was attacked.

"I was just like yelling 'I've been robbed' and then I was just trying to get this guy to stop."

A resident who heard Will shouting knocked over a bin to try to stop the thief. That's when things turned violent.

"I hear Paul say 'he's got a knife, he's got a knife'," Will said.

"And I'm looking at myself and I just like see this blood just pouring out of me.

"I've never seen anything like it."

Others tried to help.

Residents who tried to follow the attacker said he threw away a knife sheath and took off along Chatsworth Road towards Beaufort Street.

Police are hoping security pictures will help someone identify him.

"No matter how small you believe the information to be, it can assist us in closing this investigation and bringing justice to the victim involved," Detective Acting Sergeant Millie Phelan said.

For anyone else selling their items online, Will has this advice: "You can never be too careful meeting a stranger to go sell something online.

"I know lots of people use the platform but just be careful."

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Fresh warnings have been issued for major flooding in Queensland and NSW, as heavy rainfall continues across large parts of Australia's east coast.

Sydney and much of Australia's east coast were inundated with a month's worth of rain on Friday, but residents in many of the impacted regions have been warned the worst of the deluge is yet to come.

More than 100 millimetres fell in many areas of Sydney in the 24 hours to Friday night alone, and rain was expected to intensify overnight and into this morning before easing later today and tomorrow.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecasted severe storms to impact much of NSW through the night.

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Areas from Eden at the Victorian border and up into the Hunter Valley region were under warnings for widespread heavy to locally intense rainfall and damaging wind gusts.

"The heaviest rain is likely to occur around the Illawarra escarpment and maybe inland parts of the Greater Sydney region as well, where up to 300mm is possible through the course of this entire rainfall event," meteorologist Angus Hines said earlier on Friday.

According Weatherzone's models, in the six hours to 6am, parts of NSW, including Gosford, Sydney and Wollongong, could see totals of about 100mm.

Those heavier falls will then head south, impacting Bateman's Bay and surrounding regions across the day.

Some residents in Chipping Norton, not far from Liverpool in Sydney's west, were told to evacuate by midnight due to the risk of flooding at Georges River.

Evacuation centres were set up at Club Liverpool and Bankstown Sports Club.

Adding to flood concerns for parts of western Sydney, the Warragamba Dam was at 96.3 per cent capacity, with potential to spill in the coming days.

Residents around the Hawkesbury area have sandbagged to prepare their properties.

NSW SES also opened an evacuation centre at Richmond Club.

As of 12.30am (AEDT), there were 78 warnings from the SES, ranging from Bega in the south-east all the way up to Lismore in the north-east and inland to Moree and Boggabilla in the north-west.

The SES said it had already responded to more than 820 calls for help due to the weather by midway through the afternoon. 

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Elsewhere in the city, travellers suffered significant disruptions due to the cancellation of more than 100 flights in and out of Sydney Airport.

While the city's train network suffered major delays and cancellations after equipment was damaged at the key station of Redfern, just south of the CBD.

Transport for NSW was forced to move services to roughly every 10 minutes during the afternoon and evening peak, instead of the usual three to four minutes, due to the disruptions.

In addition to the rain, strong winds of up to 90km/h have been forecast by the weather bureau for much of NSW, which has also warned of the chance of "dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding" and damaging surf.

"The widespread severe weather risk is forecast to clear south of the Hunter and Sydney Metropolitan areas by sunrise on Saturday, the Illawarra by late Saturday morning and the South Coast by Saturday afternoon," the BoM said.

"More isolated severe thunderstorms may redevelop on Saturday afternoon."

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In Queensland, multiple flood warnings were in place with heavy falls due to hit southern Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast. The worst of the forecast was for the Darling Downs.

The BoM said up to 100mm of rain could fall in a short period and, like south of the border, the threat of severe weather would increase on Saturday and Sunday.

The unstable weather situation along Australia's east coast could even produce the weather phenomenon dubbed a "black nor-easter", which is when storm clouds so dark and heavy effectively turn the skies black during the day.

Israel's military has fired two senior officers after concluding Monday's attack that killed seven food aid workers in Gaza was in "serious violation" of its commands.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday that "those who approved the strike were convinced that they were targeting armed Hamas operatives," calling the attack "a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification".

The report said the strike was carried out in "serious violation of the commands and IDF Standard Operating Procedures".

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In addition to the two dismissed officers, other IDF officials were formally reprimanded.

Seven aid workers – three Britons, a Palestinian, a US-Canadian dual citizen, an Australian and a Pole – were killed in Monday's strikes on cars operated by the World Central Kitchen (WCK), setting off fury in those countries.

The IDF said in its preliminary findings on Friday that its forces "identified a gunman on one of the aid trucks, following which they identified an additional gunman," as the trucks transported food to a warehouse in Gaza.

It did not provide any more details about that claim.

Later, as three WCK vehicles left the warehouse, a commander "mistakenly assumed that the gunmen were located inside the accompanying vehicles and that these were Hamas terrorists," the report said.

WCK and the heads of many Western nations have called for an independent, third party investigation into the strikes, but Israel has committed only to the internal inquiry released on Friday.

Though it included a rare admission of guilt from the Israeli military, the IDF's Friday statement was brief and lacked a detailed explanation of precisely how and why its commands were violated.

It is unlikely to be the final word on a fatal attack that has hardened the ire of Western countries towards Israel's conduct in Gaza, and accelerated debates in several nations about whether military aid to Israel should be halted.

"The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza," WCK said on Friday in response to the preliminary findings.

"Without systemic change, there will be more military failures, more apologies and more grieving families.

The charity said it is "clear from their preliminary investigation that the IDF has deployed deadly force without regard to its own protocols, chain of command and rules of engagement."

"Their apologies for the outrageous killing of our colleagues represent cold comfort," WCK CEO Erin Gore said.

"It's cold comfort for the victims' families and WCK's global family."

US President Joe Biden called the deaths of aid workers and the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza "unacceptable" in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, adding that US support would depend on "measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers."

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains an image of a person who has died.

A guard who found an Indigenous teen with self-inflicted injuries in the "unliveable" youth wing of a WA prison says he was initially confused by the discovery.

The corrections worker who found the first juvenile to die in youth detention in Western Australia did not initially understand what he was seeing as he peered through the boy's cell door.

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Youth custodial officer Daniel Torrijos discovered Cleveland Dodd unresponsive inside his cell in the youth wing of a high-security adult prison in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

The 16-year-old had made eight threats to self-harm in the hours before Torrijos saw his motionless body in Unit 18 at Perth's Casuarina Prison and unlocked the door.

He told an inquest into Cleveland's death in a hospital eight days later, due to a brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen, that he "thought [he] was seeing things" as he looked into the cell.

"I couldn't really believe what I was seeing … then I thought it could be Cleveland playing a trick," Torrijos said in the witness box on Friday.

"I banged thinking he would react … I might have just said: 'Cleveland what the hell'.

"It was a reaction of disbelief."

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CCTV shown to the court of the incident shows Torrijos with a torch looking into Cleveland's cell through a viewing panel on the door from various angles.

He said that when he saw the boy's face he realised "he was definitely gone".

Torrijos was not carrying a radio, which is Department of Justice policy, nor did he have keys to open the cell and video shows him walking hurriedly up a flight of stairs to a manager's office to retrieve them.

"I thought I said Cleveland's f—ing [self-harmed], I need the keys," he said when asked what he told the senior officer.

"It might not have looked like I was going quick but it's as quick as I can go."

The court heard that after Torrijos returned to Cleveland's cell and opened the door he lowered the boy onto the floor and with the help of other staff attempted to resuscitate him until paramedics arrived and took over.

Torrijos also said Unit 18 was not prepared for youth inmates when it was opened in 2022, and a lot of his colleagues did not want to work there because they knew it was "chaos" at the facility.

"It was set up to fail and that's how it was perceived by a lot of officers," he said.

"Everyone didn't feel that positive that it was going to be successful at Unit 18."

Torrijos said many of the boys at the unit had mental health issues and were in "destructive mode" after being involved in major incidents at Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre before they were transferred.

He also painted a bleak picture of WA's youth justice system, including staff assaults, rolling lockdowns due to staff shortages, limited schooling and riots, in the three years before Cleveland died.

"Chaos … A lot of boys self-harming … It was pretty full-on," he said of one unit at Banksia Hill.

Some detainees spent so much time in their cells they were able to dismantle walls brick by brick and escape.

"They'd be lucky to get out of a cell for one hour and that's if we had the staff," he said.

Torrijos said he and other staff members raised concerns with management about the short-staffing and their inability to regularly check on at-risk detainees, but they were told to make do.

He was transferred to Unit 18 about a year before Cleveland died, saying it was "destroyed" by the time he arrived and continued to experience major incidents, including fires and breakouts.

The cells were "unliveable" and many had wires hanging down, broken windows and plumbing, with no running water or flushing toilets or working showers.

"It was just chaotic," he said.

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Bruce Lehrmann's "honesty and integrity" have been called into question following allegations he leaked Brittany Higgins' text messages to the media.

The allegations came from former Seven Network producer Taylor Auerbach, who appeared this week as a last-minute witness in Lehrmann's defamation suit against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.

Lawyer for Network Ten, Matthew Collins KC, told the Federal Court on Friday the only way Higgins' text messages could have come into Auerbach's possession were if Lehrmann shared them, which he denies.

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The messages came from police documents, compiled prior to Lehrmann's criminal trial, to which he and few others allegedly had access.

Collins described Lehrmann having leaked the messages as the "obvious explanation" as to how they reached Auerbach.

"The conduct, we submit, that's been exposed before Your Honour over the last day and a half or so, goes to the core of Mr Lehrmann's honesty and integrity," Collins told the court.

Auerbach also told the court he was tasked with babysitting Lehrmann in order to secure a confidential interview for Seven's current affairs program Spotlight.

During that period Auerbach alleges he witnessed Lehrmann buying cocaine and ordering sex workers to a Sydney hotel which was paid for by Seven.

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He said discussions took place around Lehrmann being paid in the order of $200,000 to appear in the exclusive, tell-all interview to respond to allegations he raped Higgins in Parliament House.

Lehrmann says there was no sexual activity between the pair.

His 2022 criminal trial in the ACT was derailed due to juror misconduct, with prosecutors dropping the charges against him over fears for Higgins' mental health.

He has also denied providing Seven with any information for the Spotlight item, besides his interview.

Seven has also broadly denied Auerbach's allegations, labelling them "false and misleading" and adding that it did not reveal journalists' sources.

Auerbach told the Federal Court on Friday he met Lehrmann's representative John MacGowan in October 2022, to discuss the interview.

"I was in Canberra for the criminal trial between Mr Lehrmann and Ms Higgins," the former TV producer said.

"We talked about the fact that Mr Lehrmann had many legal fees and needed to be compensated."

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Rather than pay Lehrmann directly, they discussed paying the money into a trust under a different name, the court was told.

Auerbach said in agreeing to the interview two days later, Lehrmann told him he was glad the producer "wasn't sitting with the rest of the feminazis in the press pack".

Seven also paid for expensive dinners, hotels, massages and a golf trip for Lehrmann, as well as renting him a house in Sydney's Randwick, according to an affidavit from Auerbach.

A $750 invoice paid by Seven was understood by Auerbach to cover "Mr Lehrmann's expenditure on cocaine and prostitutes".

"He indicated to me he needed to replenish his bank account after the bender," the ex-Seven producer told the court.

Since Lehrmann was not an employee of Seven, the payment was listed under "pre-production expenses" rather than "per diem" as was previously discussed, the court was told.

"We had to come up with another category that finance would allow," Auerbach said.

In an affidavit, Auerbach said he was also sent messages between Higgins and a former boyfriend, and later messages between her and journalist Peter Fitzsimmons, which made up part of the confidential police file.

Auerbach said he was sent photographs of a document on a laptop showing screenshots of text messages between the pair.

He claimed the photographs were taken by Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn, whose image he could recognise reflected on the laptop screen.

According to Auerbach, the trio also had dinner at Sydney restaurant Spice Temple in March 2023, during which Llewellyn asked Lehrmann if he had documents for the criminal proceedings, to which he replied that he did.

Lehrmann accompanied the men to Seven's office, where he made copies of some of an estimated 500 pages of double-sided documents from the criminal case, according to Auerbach.

"I viewed some of the documents that were being copied and could see that they were exhibits from the applicant's criminal proceedings," Auerbach said in his affidavit.

"I saw, by way of example, Ms Higgins' text messages."

According to Auerbach, Lehrmann told him on a number of occasions that evening he would only get access to the documents "when you sign me".

A first haircut is always picture-worthy, but for a young Adelaide cancer patient, today's first chop was in a special ceremony to raise awareness and funds, but was also a sign of how far she's come. 

Evelyn Tuckerman and her family, including mother Billie and devoted older brother Edward, gathered to celebrate this milestone in her arduous battle against Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that developed on her spine when she was just seven months old.

With a beaming smile, Evelyn showcased her hair, which had finally grown long enough to be cut after enduring 18 rounds of chemotherapy, numerous blood transfusions, and two months of proton radiation therapy in the United States.

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Mother Billie described the emotional toll the ordeal had taken on the family. 

"It's been a real hard challenge emotionally for us to try and live life to the fullest because we don't want to be sad and depressed at home," she said.

In a touching gesture of solidarity, Billie cut her long locks to raise funds for Camp Quality, while nine-year-old Edward bravely shaved his head in support of his sister. 

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"I couldn't dare think of losing her," Edward said.

The Tuckerman family has set a goal of raising $10,000.

"Every dollar counts, and it's the memories that we make as a family that are priceless," Billy said, a sentiment echoed by Edward.

"All I can say is it's going for a good cause and it's going to put smiles on people's faces," he said.

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.

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