The Canberra Times

Aaron Bunch

April 11 2019

Shane Akehurst has been jailed for the manslaughter of his toddler Corby Mitchell.

An enraged Queensland father who killed his toddler son by slamming his body against a bedhead will spend at least 10 years in jail.

Shane Purssell Akehurst, 37, was convicted of manslaughter and torture for throwing Corby Mitchell's small body against the wooden frame of a bed in March 2015.

The impact was so forceful that the 21-month-old's brain swelled, and his eyes bled. An autopsy later found the child had suffered 81 separate injuries.

The boy was declared brain dead two days after he was thrown against the bed, and his life support system was switched off.

Sydney Morning Herald

By Andrew Webster

April 5 2019

It’s the run no player wants to take. First run off the kick-off, off your own tryline, the tap restart. It’s the brave line infield towards the teeth of the defence, instead of the outside line towards the sideline. There’s not much love for the “No Love Run”, but certain players stake their reputation on them. In more than 200 matches for the Tigers, Cowboys, Roosters, NSW and Australia, Luke O'Donnell was such a player.

In late January, O’Donnell readied himself for another “No Love Run”. “That’s it, Lukey,” he said to himself. “Hit the ball up again, Lukey.” This time, O’Donnell wasn’t on a football field. He had just walked into a courtroom at the Downing Centre in Sydney, where he was facing charges of damaging property, intimidating with intention to harm and assaulting and resisting a police officer. The charges followed a harrowing scene at O’Donnell’s Clovelly apartment in the early hours of June 3 last year in which six police officers wrestled him to the ground and then tasered him because he refused to be handcuffed.

Sydney Morning Herald

By Andrew Webster

April 5 2019

It’s the run no player wants to take. First run off the kick-off, off your own tryline, the tap restart. It’s the brave line infield towards the teeth of the defence, instead of the outside line towards the sideline. There’s not much love for the “No Love Run”, but certain players stake their reputation on them. In more than 200 matches for the Tigers, Cowboys, Roosters, NSW and Australia, Luke O'Donnell was such a player.

In late January, O’Donnell readied himself for another “No Love Run”. “That’s it, Lukey,” he said to himself. “Hit the ball up again, Lukey.” This time, O’Donnell wasn’t on a football field. He had just walked into a courtroom at the Downing Centre in Sydney, where he was facing charges of damaging property, intimidating with intention to harm and assaulting and resisting a police officer. The charges followed a harrowing scene at O’Donnell’s Clovelly apartment in the early hours of June 3 last year in which six police officers wrestled him to the ground and then tasered him because he refused to be handcuffed.