Thank you for joining us on this very busy news day.
We just learned that Perth bikie Troy Mercanti is accused of ‘backhanding’ a woman and raping her after night out in Northbridge.
The 56-year-old appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Monday via video link from Hakea Prison looking dishevelled and unshaven after a weekend in the cells.
In unbearably sad news, the girlfriend of one of the Perth brothers killed in Mexico has led the online tributes for them after Mexican authorities confirmed the identities of three bodies found in a well last week.
Prosecutors believe Perth brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, and American Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, were killed after resisting the theft of their ute.
Callum’s girlfriend Emily Horwath, an American who lives in San Diego where he played professional lacrosse, expressed her devastation in posts about the brothers and their American friend.
“My heart is shattered into a million pieces,” she said. “You are one of one. I will love you forever.”
And a 42-year-old West Australian woman is accused of attempting to murder her disabled child by injecting her with insulin, a court has heard.
The mother, who cannot be identified to protect the identity of the child, went on trial in the WA Supreme Court on Monday. She was arrested and charged after blood tests taken in January 2022 following a triple-zero call showed the child had life-threatening levels of insulin in her system.
Finally, we offer you a change of pace here, with an inspiring opinion piece titled: I signed up for a one-way ticket to hell and (somehow) came out transformed. Perhaps it’ll inspire us to get out of bed that bit earlier and start exercising.