WA news LIVE: Man charged with attempted murder over Gooseberry Hill DV stabbing

Nandos Willetton has copped a whopping $160,000 fine over a series of health breaches.

In what is believed to be one of the biggest fines recorded for violations under WA’s Food Act, the Department of Health found the Portuguese chicken venue failed to eradicate pests or maintain a standard of cleanliness.

It was also found to have sold food that was past its used by date, and did not have accessible handwashing facilities for staff.

The violations occurred in September 2023 during two visits from City of Canning health inspectors.

The store’s convictions were recorded last week.

The mother of Claremont serial killer victim Jane Rimmer has passed away, aged 81.

Jennifer Rimmer died on May 28, just days short of the 28-year anniversary of when her daughter became the second woman to be snatched off the streets of Claremont after a night out in 1996.

Jennifer was the one who raised the alarm with police after Jane, 23, failed to show up to a Sunday lunch event. Her daughter’s body was found three weeks later in bushland south of Perth.

The grieving mother waited more than 20 years for her daughter’s killer, Bradley Robert Edwards to finally be arrested and eventually found guilty of murdering the former childcare worker.

Jennifer, despite her deteriorating health, attended parts of the trial, and the verdict day. Jane’s father Trevor died nearly 20 years ago.

In a victim impact statement read by Justice Stephen Hall at Edwards’ sentencing, Jennifer said she believed the trauma of losing Jane had made Trevor more susceptible to his battle with cancer.

“She says that losing Jane made a huge difference to all the people in her family. She reflects on what might have been,” he said.

“She believes that Jane would have married and had children, she says that Jane would have been a wonderful mother, she says that Jane having children is something that she thinks about often and misses.”

Jennifer is survived by her two children, Lee and Adam, and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A Perth man has been charged with attempted murder over the stabbing of a woman in Gooseberry Hill last night, in yet another suspected family violence incident.

The 72-year-old is accused of stabbing the 60-year-old woman, who is known to him, multiple times in the neck and torso.

It’s alleged he then barricaded himself inside a Jesse Road property, with tactical response group officers attending the scene to coax him out.

A neighbour told 9 News Perth they heard screams and discovered the victim injured in a front garden around 5.30pm.

Neighbours applied pressure to the woman’s stab wounds until emergency services arrived.

The woman underwent emergency surgery last night and is in a critical condition.

The man is due to appear in court this morning.

Here’s what’s making news this morning:

• The National Disability Insurance Scheme’s head of fraud and integrity has revealed at least 5 per cent of the scheme – more than $2 billion – was being spent in error, including cases when dodgy providers have taken participants to ATMs to withdraw cash for illicit drugs.

• A convicted kidnapper who worked with gangland boss Tony Mokbel has been saved from deportation by a tribunal decision on Monday to restore his visa, sparking a blame game in federal parliament.

• The peak body for yoga teachers in Australia says the country has too many instructors despite a national skills body created by the government bending over backwards to put them on a migration list of needed occupations.

• In international news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance raced to a majority in early vote counting in India’s six-week general election counting yesterday, but the numbers were well short of the landslide predicted in exit polls.

• And two people were arrested after a milkshake was thrown over divisive populist figure Nigel Farage while he was launching his candidacy to win the parliamentary seat of Clacton in Essex in the UK general election.

Sunny today, but make the most of it because from tomorrow the showers will be back!

Good morning Perth, I’m Heather McNeill, bringing you today’s headlines.

First to catch you up on last night: West Coast’s Harley Reid got the results of his tribunal hearing over a sling tackle, and our 9 News Perth colleague Michael Genovese penned this exclusive for us on a child care service you might wish to avoid.

This morning, Sarah Brookes has uncovered an exclusive in which a logistics expert has predicted yet another supply chain crunch this year will empty our shelves in what is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario.

The productive Sarah has also written about a major expansion in the number of suburbs whose median property price has exceeded $1 million – and listed the suburbs not far off the mark.

And contributor Brendan Foster has written this moving and heartfelt piece on his dog, Oakley, that we know so many of you will relate to.

Meanwhile, roving reporter Mark Naglazas has surveyed Perth seniors on what sports and activities they choose to keep fit and healthy, and has uncovered some beautiful stories that really highlight the vital role that physical movement plays in our lives and our happiness.

Stay with me – there’s more on the way.