– The mother and son who pleaded guilty to killing Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson have been sentenced. Mitchell Barbieri will spend 35 years behind bars, while his mother Fiona was sentenced to 10 years.
– More details about the final moments in the Sydney siege have emerged, it’s now known police decided to storm the building, after hostage Tori Johnston was executed by gunman Man Haron Monis.
– Meanwhile the siege has created a fresh debate about Australia’s gun laws. But a senate crossbencher’s calls for Australians to carry concealed weapons has been quickly rejected.
– Pakistan has lifted its suspension on the death penalty in terror-related cases, it comes AFTER nearly 140 children were killed in a school in the country’s north west.
– And 30 patients have been evacuated from a hospital in Sydney’s inner west, after a fire broke out in the second floor kitchen.
