Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, October 9.
Making headlines today, after 13 hospital visits across three states, a mother who presented as a loving, worried parent now faces more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to the medical abuse of her two-year-old son.
Sarah Jayne Kelly, 30, told doctors at multiple hospitals in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia that her fourth child suffered from epilepsy and cerebral palsy over nearly a two-year period from 2021 to 2023.
Sarah Jayne Kelly, 30, was sentenced after lying about her children’s medical conditions.
Last night, as she was being sentenced in Perth’s District Court, Judge Laurence Levy told the court Kelly took the child to the emergency claiming he was vomiting, had a head injury and was suffering seizures – but medical professionals could not find any evidence of the issues.
In other court news, a Perth doctor narrowly escaped jail for a second time on Wednesday after he was released on a good behaviour bond despite being handed a six-month prison term.
Meanwhile, Perth has recorded its first steady quarter in over a year for rental prices, with the median weekly cost for houses remaining stagnant at the record peak of $700 per week.
And WA researchers have received a $200,000 government grant to create an “underwater Wi-Fi” system aimed at giving the nation’s defence personnel the “upper hand”.
Stay with us as we bring you the local news of the day, as it happens across WA.
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