Andrea Mayes

How could loving parents starve their only child? It's the key question at the heart of the baffling case of a teenage ballerina whose parents allowed her to become so malnourished she was at risk of cardiac arrest. 

The Perth parents who deliberately starved their only child, causing the emaciated teenager to suffer serious health complications, are jailed.

A young woman who was at risk of death after her parents starved her as a teenager makes an emotional appeal to a Perth judge to spare them further punishment.

With the trial of two WA parents accused of starving their daughter drawing to a close, a jury will soon have to decide whether they intentionally denied her nourishment to keep her their "little girl forever".

The District Court hears a Perth mother deny anyone had ever raised concerns about her daughter's health, or that she herself had ever noticed anything concerning about the teen's appearance.

A mother accused of starving her daughter tells a Perth court she thought the orange marks around her mouth were due to the teenager's appetite for carrots and pumpkin, not because she was malnourished, as a doctor advised.

The case of the malnourished teenager and the parents whom police have accused of deliberately starving her has been aired in public for the first time in Perth's District Court in recent weeks.

lt's stood abandoned on the banks of the Swan River for more than 40 years — now the Perth Festival is transforming the East Perth power station into an entertainment and arts precinct for three weeks every summer.

In publishing his reasons to grant Peter Damjanovic a judge-alone trial for the alleged murderer of Tiffany Woodley, Justice Joseph McGrath reveals graphic details of the state's case against him. WARNING: Indigenous readers are advised this story contains photos of someone who has died.

It's been 14 years since the body of 21-year-old apprentice Josh Warneke was discovered by a Broome roadside, and a long-awaited inquest into his death has provided little clarity on what happened.