Armed Robbery

Police are investigating potential links between four robberies in which some residents were allegedly threatened in their homes with weapons.

Bakery owner Kathryn Ireland says staff and a cleaner were traumatised by a robbery at Yarram in Victoria's east this morning. The robbers were trying to get cash but escaped with nothing but two pies. 

68-year-old Patricia McKay was struck and killed by a white sedan during a botched robbery attempt at Fashion Island mall, Newport Beach.

The man who stole international tennis star Nick Kyrgios's green Tesla from the player's mother at gunpoint is sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail in the ACT Supreme Court.

Two days after being sentenced, the man dubbed the "bicycle bandit" died. Kym Allen Parsons robbed 10 banks and attempted to rob an 11th. Who was he and how did he remain on the run for so long?

The South Australian bank robber dubbed the 'bicycle bandit' has died two days after being jailed for 35 years. Kym Allen Parsons had been granted access to voluntary assisted dying for stage 4 cancer, before he was sentenced for his crimes.

South Australia's notorious "bicycle bandit" has been handed a 35-year sentence for a series of armed bank robberies, but will serve very little time in prison.

South Australia's notorious "bicycle bandit", accused of carrying out armed hold-ups over a decade, has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of aggravated robbery.

Police believe a group of teenagers with kitchen knives are behind armed robberies on four supermarkets in Melbourne's south-east on Saturday afternoon.

Four supermarkets across Melbourne's south-east have been held up by a group of men with knives. A number of workers sustained minor injuries as the group demanded cash and cigarettes.  

South Australia's alleged "bicycle bandit" Kym Parsons, who is accused of multiple armed bank hold-ups over a decade, will go on trial next year after he today pleaded not guilty in the state's Supreme Court.

New details emerge about a fictitious criminal syndicate police say they set up to solve the 24-year-old mystery of Canberra grandmother Irma Palasics's murder, as a second man is committed for trial in the ACT Supreme Court over her killing.

Canberra man Troy Graham pretended he wanted to buy vapes from a 14-year-old boy as a ruse to get into his house before beating him and his family and stealing guns. On Tuesday, he was jailed for eight years.

Kym Parsons, 73, is accused of carrying out 10 bank robberies while he was armed with a rifle in small South Australian towns between 2004 and 2014.

District Court hears James and Gregory Brockman were in the midst of a nine-day methamphetamine binge when they tied up the man, threatened him with a shotgun and stole more than $30,000 of his possessions.

Queensland police will investigate "around the clock" until they arrest the man responsible for the "abhorrent" killing of a grandmother at a shopping centre west of Brisbane. 

An armed man has robbed a store in Holland Park in Brisbane's south wearing a clown mask and brandishing what appears to be a gun before fleeing with a sum of cash.

One of South Australia's most respected paediatricians, who was attacked during a violent home invasion in Adelaide's inner north, has died in hospital.

One of South Australia's top paediatricians is in a critical condition after a break-in at his home in Adelaide's inner northern suburbs.

It's been half a century since two armed bandits ambushed a train in tropical Queensland rainforest, making off with the equivalent of $80,000 in today's money. Despite whispers of an inside job, nobody's ever been caught.

Police say four armed men smashed their way into a Sunshine Coast home and held a couple in their 70s hostage before stealing personal items and fleeing the scene.

The Children's Court has heard a 16-year-old was released from a youth detention centre the day before he allegedly attacked and robbed taxi driver Yawinder Gill Singh.

CCTV of gunman Gary Wright taking service station workers hostage.

Kym Parsons's lawyer says his client had lost 7 kilograms in custody, and argues that denying bail would condemn him to death without a trial.

A Supreme Court hears more details into the alleged 'bicycle bandit' case – as a prosecutor seeks the reversal of a magistrate's decision to grant the accused man home detention bail.