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This is the third case of meningococcal disease in Canterbury this year.

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A man whose bones were discovered buried in a Sydney construction yard 16 years ago has been revealed as yet another victim of notorious gangland figure Arthur 'Neddy' Smith.

Mark Johnston disappeared after meeting friends at the Bellevue Hotel in Paddington on September 1, 1986.

Human remains found on a construction site of a desalination plant in Kurnell in October 2007 were left unidentified until December 2019 when DNA evidence confirmed the bones belonged to Johnston.

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On Wednesday, state coroner Teresa O'Sullivan confirmed the manner of death had been homicide by a "known person" at Johnston's solicitor's home in Dover Heights.

"I agree … that Mr Johnston's remains were buried for the purpose of disposing of his body and concealing his homicide," the magistrate said.

"I am also satisfied that the evidence establishes that the person responsible for his death was Arthur Smith."

O'Sullivan was unable to determine the precise cause of death, however.

On February 15, 2021, police investigators from Strike Force Brompton visited Smith at a secure ward at Prince of Wales Hospital.

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"I've got nothing to say," he said when asked about Johnston's disappearance.

When police inquired if he knew what had happened to Johnston, Smith replied: "No, do you?"

The convicted murderer died of Parkinson's disease in Long Bay's prison hospital aged 76 on September 8, 2021.

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At an earlier inquest in May 1999, deputy state coroner John Abernathy found there was enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Smith had "committed an indictable offence" relating to Johnston's death.

In August that year, the Director of Public Prosecutions declined to initiate proceedings against Smith or any other person.

A second inquest was held in November 2013 after the bones were uncovered and DNA was collected and entered into a missing person's database. No conclusive findings were made at that point.

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Smith was accused of numerous murders in the 1970s and 1980s during Sydney's gangland wars.

When he died, he was serving two life sentences for the murders of brothel owner Harvey Jones in 1983 and tow-truck driver Ronnie Flavell in 1987.

The principal witness at a NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry exposing corruption between the NSW Police and criminals, Smith said he had bribed numerous senior detectives and had been given a "green light" to commit crime from 1981.

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A mother-of-three was drunk and angry after her boyfriend assaulted her during an argument about their approaches to parenting when she flung him from a car, almost killing him.

Tara McConchie, 37, faced the County Court in Melbourne on Wednesday where she avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to negligently causing injury to her then-partner in March 2021.

The couple of 10 years had been drinking all afternoon and into the evening at a Point Cook house party when they began arguing about their differing approaches to parenting and her boyfriend assaulted her.

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She went outside to their four-wheel drive, which had her boyfriend's jetski attached on a trailer, and drove off.

McConchie returned and then stopped on a suburban road near the party, where she tried to unhitch the trailer.

Her partner yelled at her and then jumped onto the 4WD, holding on to the roof rack. She revved the motor, but he stayed clinging to the car when she began accelerating.

She got up to 41km/h and then hit the brakes, flinging him off the vehicle and onto the road.

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He suffered serious head injuries, including a brain haemorrhage, skull fractures and nerve damage, requiring surgery and rehabilitation.

"Driving at all with a blood alcohol level of 0.186 is highly dangerous and illegal," Judge Gerard Mullaly said.

"Serious injury if not death was inevitable."

He handed McConchie a three-year community corrections order and ordered she undertake 300 hours of unpaid community work.

Judge Mullaly said his sentence took into account "the whole picture" of the offending, including domestic violence and that the victim jumped on the car and remained there after she revved the engine.

"This is a merciful sentence to allow you to remain outside prison, but if you don't do what's required of you, you will go to prison almost inevitably," he said.

McConchie, who was supported in court by her new partner, was also disqualified from driving for two years.

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A brave Queensland bus driver has done what most would never dare to, parking his vehicle mid-route and stopping traffic to rescue a huge, wild snake.

Footage captured on the Gold Coast has shown the driver walk out onto a road, bend down and pick up the huge animal by the tail – which was almost certainly moments away from being flattened.

The driver then carefully carries the snake to a nearby grass patch before placing it down gently on the ground.

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A pedestrian is then seen almost stumbling across the serpent, before the driver warns him to keep his distance.

The footage comes after an Aussie snake expert issued a new warning to people across the country yesterday.

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"The Snake Hunter" aka Mark Pelley revealed a technique the animals use to flatten their bodies and creep their way under doors.

"Eastern brown snakes – even a large one like this – have the ability to flatten themselves out and gradually squeeze there way underneath an entrance door into the property," he said.

"I frequently find them inside houses in Australia in summer."

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