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Morning all and welcome to the last live blog for the week.
Making headlines, crime reporter Rebecca Peppiatt has revealed the suburbs with the highest crime rates for 2025, and while some suburbs saw a dramatic downturn in criminal activity, for others it was a different story.
WAtoday has examined the data and compiled a per capita snapshot of each suburb, giving a fairer picture of which areas of Perth suffered the most issues.
Sticking with crime news, and the verdict looms for David Pye – the man accused of paying a trained sniper to carry out the shooting of Nick Martin at Kwinana Motorplex in 2020.
Pye has denied that allegation.
The former soldier, who cannot be identified as his identity is suppressed, previously admitted to murdering Martin while he sat watching the races with his family, but the alleged hitman says he was paid to do so by Pye, with whom he had struck up a friendship over drugs and his work overseas.
Pye will be sentenced today.
We have revealed more on the murder of Gwenneth Graham who was found dead in bushland near Balga in 1974.
And for almost three years, residents and locally owned businesses along Railway Parade in Midland have lived alongside the construction of the new Midland Train Station redevelopment.
What we did not expect, writes Kevin Bartholomew – owner of Commercial Bar and Kitchen in Midland which has been heavily impacted by the Midland station project – was the sustained pattern of disregard for the local community during delivery. And this, increasingly, appears to reflect something larger than one project.
Stay with us as more news breaks.
