Stephanie Gardiner
Stephanie Gardiner is a reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald. Email or tweet her with your news tips.
Cash-strapped Brit cruised into cocaine bust
Stephanie Gardiner Heavy-handed loan sharks, a cruise ship called Aurora, a friendly couple named Pete and Sheila, and Sherlock the sniffer dog.
Tinkler companies off the hook with tax office
Stephanie Gardiner The Australian Tax Office has formally withdrawn from proceedings against a series of companies owned or controlled by Nathan Tinkler, with a court hearing that their tax debts have been paid.
Court told of missing woman's wallet
Stephanie Gardiner In the months after Belinda Peisley disappeared from the Blue Mountains, her best friend wrote to her bereaved mother and said: ''Belinda and I were like sisters.''
Rinehart court date: Gina prepared to appear
Stephanie Gardiner The country's richest person, Gina Rinehart, may appear in a Sydney court later this year, when the legal stoush brought by two of her children over the family's $4 billion trust goes to trial.
Duncan ICAC challenge is 'comprehensively' defeated
Stephanie Gardiner Mining magnate Travers Duncan has lost a bid to shut down the NSW corruption watchdog's inquiry into the granting of coal exploration licences, with a judge finding his case had ''comprehensively''...
Magnate loses bid to shut down ICAC inquiry
Stephanie Gardiner Mining magnate Travers Duncan has lost his bid to shut down the Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into a government coal tender, with a judge ruling the watchdog's commissioner has...
Car wash king eyes wash-up of neighbourly argument
Stephanie Gardiner Life on Sydney's most expensive street was far from idyllic in May last year when a brawl over a staircase broke out between two wealthy warring neighbours, a court has heard.
Madam convicted of enslaving students at north shore brothel
Paul Bibby, Stephanie Gardiner A Sydney madam has been found guilty of keeping young Malaysian students in sexual servitude at a brothel on the north shore.
Drug addict jailed after Sydney Airport rampage
Stephanie Gardiner After two weeks without sleep, high on ice and amphetamines, Eric Craig Uglow went on a rampage at Sydney Airport, threatening people with a letter opener, before leading police on a high-speed...
Youth thought his opponent was faking
Stephanie Gardiner ''Aaron, stop faking it,'' said a teenager to his opponent as he fell to the ground during a fight after school.
Mel B injunction causing Channel Nine 'damage'
Stephanie Gardiner As former Spice Girl Melanie Brown (pictured) took a Sunday drive around Los Angeles, six barristers were in Sydney arguing about the future of her Australian TV career and whether her salary should...
After seven years on the run, Naden admits all
Paul Bibby, Stephanie Gardiner For a man who went to such extraordinary lengths to avoid being captured by police, Malcolm Naden's final surrender on Friday was surprisingly swift and simple.
'It's been a long eight years': bereaved father's relief at Naden guilty plea
Paul Bibby and Stephanie Gardiner The father of Lateesha Nolan, who fugitive Malcolm Naden has pleaded guilty to murdering, has spoken of the emotional toll of the long wait for justice.
Timeline - Naden's seven years on the run
Stephanie Gardiner May 2004 - Malcolm Naden linked to the aggravated indecent assault of a 15-year-old girl in Dubbo.
Prosecution in Lin murders 'scratching for its case'
Stephanie Gardiner The defence barrister for accused Lin family murderer Robert Xie has told a court prosecutors are ''still scratching around for a case'' as the trial approaches.
Man denies intimidation charges
Stephanie Gardiner A man who once climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a protest has been accused of intimidating the family of a man he helped convict of murdering a bikie.
Missing Belinda 'stole alcohol' as family searched for her
Stephanie Gardiner When police found missing Sydney woman Belinda Burcham "dishevelled and confused" in Paddington, she thought she had only been away for a few hours.
Gunned down in a Greenacre street
Stephanie Gardiner Early in the evening, loud music and a series of loud bangs rang out in Wilbur Street, Greenacre.
'Vicious' shooting not random, say police
Stephanie Gardiner A man killed in a 'vicious and callous' shooting in Sydney's south west was once accused of the fatal shooting of a Sydney drug dealer.
Naden set to stand trial a year after his capture
Stephanie Gardiner A year to the day after he was captured by police, the case of Malcolm Naden may come to an end, with a court being told he is mentally fit to enter a plea.
