‘Crazy’: Cop’s texts to friend before allegedly killing ex-boyfriend and man’s new partner

The West Australian Clareese Packer and Paige Fryer

23 Sept 2026 06:02 AEST Summary

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Text messages read to a jury have revealed a former cop on trial for the murder of his ex-boyfriend allegedly took photos of his former partner’s messages with another man.

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Niral Score 6.7 mundaneloaded

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Sourcing 47 unattributednamed sources Mood 26.3 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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