Two women have been arrested and an alleged underworld figure is on the run after police searched a home in Sydney's south-west.

Officers arrived at the home of Ahmad Alameddine to do a compliance check for his strict bail conditions on Narelle Crescent in Greenacre about 6am.

Police said when they arrived, the 33-year-old allegedly ran from the home.

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Police then deployed the Dog and Riot Squad and PolAir to locate Alameddine.

"During a search of the address, police located and seized a firearm, which will be taken for further forensic examination," police said in a statement.

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9News understands his partner and sister offered to assist police but allegedly tried to help hide Alameddine.

The two women, aged 28 and 35, were arrested at a service station on Waterloo Road.

They are expected to be charged with hindering the investigation.

Narelle Crescent was the site of two shootings just days apart last month.

9News is not suggesting Alameddine has any links to those shootings.

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A man has been found not guilty of murder as a woman's sentence can finally be revealed for killing a mother of two, leaving her body decomposing in a creek as she impersonated her victim asking for money.

Justin Kent Dilosa pleaded not guilty to murdering Danielle Easey at a home on the NSW Central Coast in 2019.

The NSW Supreme Court jury deliberated for almost 12 hours across two days before finding Dilosa not guilty.

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Easey's body was discovered at a creek near Newcastle in August 2019, more than a week after she had been murdered by Carol Marie McHenry.

McHenry has been jailed at least 15 years and six months, eligible for parole in March 2035.

Her maximum sentence of 22 years and six months was backdated to September 2019.

Easey's birth and death both made news.

Newcastle's "earthquake baby" came into the world on the day the NSW Hunter region was rocked by a rare tremor in 1989.

"She was born on the grass outside the hospital with sheets held up around us," her mother, Jennifer Collier, told a court when the woman who murdered her daughter approached sentencing in April.

McHenry sent text messages and asked for money, posing as Easey after her mother said she was going to report her missing to police.

"I believed you were her, and that plays on my mind nearly every single day," Collier told McHenry.

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Easey's sister said she has been filled with a consuming emptiness, falling into alcoholism and prescription drug abuse since the murder of her sister and "soulmate".

She can't work, socialise, or even experience joy.

"I can't feel it," she said.

She told "Carol" she had already experienced much hardship in her life.

"Congratulations, it was you who broke me. I will never be whole again due to your actions," she said.

Easey's brother asked a question from the witness box.

"There's nowhere for you to hide in this court, is there Carol?" Brendan Easey said.

She had to sit and listen to the family of the woman she murdered, the first of many consequences she would face.

His younger sister was a protective, loving mother and a fighter, Mr Easey said, telling the court she once chased off older bullies who had run him up a tree with a "big arse stick".

"That was my sister, fierce as hell."

"You are a coward," he told her murderer.

"I don't even think you're sorry. I think you might be sorry you got caught."

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He said Danielle was loved and respected by all who knew her, who will remember her for the rest of their lives.

"If you do get out (of jail) the world will have forgotten you, and no one will be sorry for you," he told McHenry.

McHenry and Dilosa each blamed the other for attacking and fatally wounding the 29-year-old Easey in McHenry's home.

The jury that found McHenry guilty was unable to reach a verdict for Dilosa, who was found not guilty following a second trial.

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An expert at Sydney's Taronga Zoo says a sun bear at a Chinese zoo, which viewers online have claimed was a human in a costume, is real.

Guests and viewers of viral social media clips have pointed to the animal's uncanny resemblance to a person while it was standing upright in its habitat as evidence of a conspiracy.

The creature also appeared to be waving at visitors.

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Hangzhou Zoo, located in the capital of China's Zhejiang province, denied claims the bear was a human dressed up.

Keeper Logan Dudley, who takes care of sun bear Mary at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, said she's certain the creature seen in the videos is real.

"I don't think it is a person in a costume," Dudley said.

"Our sun bear Mary displays that same behaviour and it is a natural behaviour that is displayed in wild sun bears as well.

"In the wild, sun bears will display the standing up behaviour like we've seen in the video.

"It's behaviour they do to reach food in the trees."

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Some bears might be rewarded with food for displaying behaviours such as waving at zoos, she added.

"Sun bears are very smart, she may have cottoned on to this," Dudley said.

She said the saggy skin on their behind is insulation plus is flexible so allows them to twist away from attackers.

Taronga Zoo has also responded to the debate with cheeky social media posts and said there has been an uptick in interest in Mary.

The zoo captioned a Facebook post: "Primates aren't the only ones who can stand two legs."

The zoo also posted footage of Mary making herself a bed, saying she's "putting to be any rumours about her incredible species".

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Why are they called sun bears?

A sun bear, also known as a honey bear, Malayan bear, dog bear, Biruang or "basidia ann tingle", meaning "he who sits high", is one of the world's rarest bears.

They're named after the unique shading on their chest which looks like a rising sun.

Standing up to 1.5m tall and weighing up to 80kg, they're a similar size to a human.

But they have long claws which can rip open logs and fend off predators like tigers, leopards and pythons.

Taronga Zoo also had another sun bear – Mr Hobbs, who died in 2021.

He was taken from his mother when she was killed by poachers in Cambodia.

He was rescued by expat businessman John Stevens from a restaurant where he was destined to become food, along with two others.

They were taken to the Free The Bears sanctuary in Phnom Penh and eventually came to Sydney, the zoo said.

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Perth Zoo and Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium also have sun bears.

The bears live for around 25 years and are solitary creatures.

Sadly, thousands of bears are still been captured for their bile and meat in Asia.

They're also losing their habitat, with only around 2500 left in the wild.

Taronga Zoo said visiting helps support conservation projects to try and save them.

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A lawyer knew her husband was connected to criminal activity and tried to destroy evidence linking him to a murder because she couldn't live without him, a jury has heard.

As Ali Cevik was sitting in a police cell in the early hours of May 28, 2019, his wife Alev Rojda Oncu desperately tried to find out what had happened.

"I can't do life without you," she texted after his arrest.

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Crown prosecutors allege this was what spurred the 32-year-old Sydney solicitor to try deleting CCTV footage around her Blacktown home which showed Cevik leaving with another man before the murder was committed.

"She did that in order to obstruct or interfere or pervert the course of justice that was in train because (Cevik had) been charged with an offence," crown prosecutor Philip Hogan told jurors on Thursday.

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"She did it, the Crown says, so that she wouldn't have to do life without him."

Cevik pleaded guilty to the murder, details of which cannot be published under court order.

Oncu had been in a relationship with Cevik for six to eight years and first met her husband when he was a "disciplined, hard-trained" mixed martial arts fighter.

However, he then became involved in drugs and people with a "bad reputation," Hogan told Parramatta District Court during a closing address.

The couple got married, bought a home, lived in the granny flat and rented out the main house.

"Life's looking good except that Ali Cevik had gone off the rails but … she can't do life without him," Hogan said.

Hours before the murder, a phone call with Cevik would have made the solicitor aware her husband was about to become involved in serious criminal activity.

"I don't know if I come home tonight. The things I'm about to do, it's not going to be OK," he said.

The following day after police visited her house, Oncu allegedly unsuccessfully tried to unplug the CCTV system located in their bedroom before asking technician Salar Norouzi to attend her home.

"She told him that she wanted to erase the footage," Mr Hogan said.

When police reviewed the CCTV hard drive, they found everything from before when Norouzi was there had disappeared.

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In August 2022, police were able to retrieve the missing footage using updated software.

The missing footage showed Cevik leaving prior to the murder plus Oncu, after her husband's arrest, going underneath the main house with a laundry basket and then meeting with a man and a woman who took a black bag to dispose of in the park behind the home.

Earlier on Thursday, Oncu gave evidence from the witness box saying she had no reason to think anything in her Blacktown home would have been relevant to police.

She denied asking anyone to delete the footage, saying she had worked hard to get where she was in the legal profession.

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"I would never do anything to obstruct or to mislead the system in general. I would never do anything of that nature," she told the court.

The four men involved in the murder, including Cevik, either pleaded guilty or were found by a jury to be guilty. A fifth man pleaded guilty to being an accessory.

The trial with Judge Mark Buscombe continues.

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A Queensland court has overturned a law banning religious knives on school grounds after finding it to be racially discriminatory.

The state had introduced a law allowing Sikhs to carry a ceremonial sword known as a kirpan but it barred those of the faith from carrying the instrument in schools.

Now, the state's highest court has found the legislation to be unconstitutional under the Racial Discrimination Act.

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It comes after Sikh woman Kamaljit Kaur Athwal took the Queensland government to court last year over claims the Weapons Act, which had a blanket ban on carrying the ceremonial sword in schools, was discriminatory.

Sikhs are required to wear a kirpan as part of their religious uniform as prescribed by their code of conduct.

It's one of five religious symbols they carry at all times as part of their faith.

An initial court ruling dismissed the claim the act was discriminatory but now after an appeal, there has been a win for the Sikh faith.

Bill Potts from Potts Lawyers Queensland said the original legislation meant Sikhs "were not able to go to school, not able to go to effectively carry out their religion".

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Potts said the overturning of the law is giving freedom back to those practising the faith and is a "great step forward".

"This just simply means that they have the same freedoms that everybody else has and are not discriminated against by the state legislation," he said.

Despite the court ruling, there are concerns in parts of the community.

Two years ago, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed twice by a 14-year-old with a kirpan at a NSW school.

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Members of the Brisbane Sikh Community said kirpans are all blunt and only very small ones can be carried by Sikh children who have been baptised.

"It's part of our body, it's part of who we are, spirituality is part of our faith," a practising Sikh told 9News.

"It's never to be used to attack anybody it's not there for that purpose, it's there for the purpose to tell us who we are."

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