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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, November 18.
Making headlines today, an inquest into the death of child sex offender Ashley Bropho has heard prison staff didn’t know the white supremacist who killed him had previously been convicted of attempting to murder another inmate he believed to be a paedophile.
Ashley Bropho, as depicted by an artist, during one of his court appearances.Credit: 9News Perth
Evan James Martin, 45, was convicted of murdering Bropho, 40, in Hakea Prison in 2023, brutally assaulting him inside his own cell while both men were meant to be in protective custody.
Meanwhile, judges are not implementing Western Australia’s family and domestic violence laws mandating the monitoring of repeat offenders, as the state government walks back its declaration that courts would be compelled to impose them.
And independent WA senator Fatima Payman says her office continues to receive daily racist messages, after a 51-year-old Ballarat man avoided jail after sending her death threats over email in March.
Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day, as it happens in WA.
