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Jul 08 2025 Updated July 4, 2025

Anna Carson

1 min read

Evil in our midst: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty

LEONGATHA mother of two, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a marathon trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell. The jury returned its verdict on day six of its deliberations, on Monday...

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Michael Giles

07 Jul 2025

News

Still, we wait… but here’s what happens when the verdict comes

IT’S day three of the jury’s deliberations in the Erin Patterson murder trial at Morwell. But by lunchtime on Wednesday, July 2, there’s still no verdict and no questions either from a jury that has spent two nights sequestered in a Latrobe...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

Police

Two Bass Coast teenagers arrested after stabbing in Wantirna South

DETECTIVES charged three teenagers after a stabbing and affray in Wantirna South on Monday, July 7. It is alleged that an altercation took place between a group of teenaged boys at a shopping centre on Burwood Highway in Wantirna South about 5.30pm...

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Sentinel-Times

10 Jul 2025

News

Hold the line, no retreat

NO SURF lifesaving club, no road and dozens of homes lost, that’s the dire assessment given by Inverloch Foreshore Action Group (IFAG) if the state government sticks to its proposed ‘planned retreat’ solution. In response to the Department of...

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Sentinel-Times

29 Jun 2025

Toes tapping from the opening bars of Lyric’s Footloose

IT’S a ‘boy meets girl’ musical of the highest order so Leongatha Lyric Theatre’s latest musical production had all the ingredients to please when it opened on Friday night this week. And the sellout crowd came out singing, not only hit...

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Sentinel-Times

5 hours ago

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‘Not our video to give’, says South Gippsland Shire

MYSTERY surrounds how media outlets got their hands on explosive new CCTV video footage, from the Koonwarra Transfer Station, which appears to show mushroom murderer, Erin Patterson, dumping rubbish at the tip little more than 30 minutes after her...

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Inverloch welcomes a new police sergeant with a familiar name

... locals say there’s always work to be done! THAT’S pretty amazing! The Bass Coast Police Service Area Facebook page ‘Eyewatch’ has alerted the Inverloch and district community to a very interesting piece of information about family...

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Phillip Island Whale Festival open this weekend

MORE than a festival the Phillip Island Whale Festival is seen by Bass Coast Mayor Cr Rochelle Halstead as a reflection of who we are as a community. Opening the Whale Festival at Berninneit in Cowes Cr Halstead said it was a beloved event that...

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Bruce Wardley

13 hours ago