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1. Adrian Bayley is appealing.

Serial rapist Adrian Bayley, who murdered 29-year-old Brunswick woman Jill Meagher in 2012, is appealing convictions for two rapes he committed prior to Meagher’s violent murder.

Bayley, who has now convicted of raping 10 women besides Meagher, had his non-parole period increased earlier this year after he was sentenced for raping three of those women.

Bayley’s non-parole period is now 43 years, meaning would stay in prison until at least age 86.

Lawyers for the 43-year-old Melbourne man lodged the appeals in court yesterday.

2. Musicians stabbed in an alleged skinny jeans ‘hate crime’.

Three American musicians were attacked on a night out – in what US authorities have described as a hate crime – because they were wearing skinny jeans.

Timothy Brownwell, 25, allegedly yelled a homophobic slur at the men and then stabbed two of them because of their tight pants, People reports.

Blake Abbey, the lead singer of band Musical Charis said the trio were on their way home from a Sacramento bar when two men called them “faggots for wearing tight jeans”.

“We did nothing to provoke them,” he said on Facebook.

“We were in the wrong place at the wrong time. My arm was completely mangled by a 7-8 inch Rambo knife.”

Weston Richmond – guitarist for rock band Slaves – was also attacked.

“Some people are just ridiculous. This man literally did all this cause we wear skinny jeans… What a jerk,” he wrote on Instagram.

Brownell – whose bail was set at $1 million – is still in custody.

3. Fears a serial killer is on the loose as sixth dead woman washes up in Ohio town.

FBI analysts are compiling a profile of a potential serial killer as a sixth murder victim is discovered in one small Ohio town in little over a year.

Chillicothe is a town of only 21,000, but at least six of its women have disappeared, with four bodies found dumped in creeks or streams near the city, The Washington Post reports.

Most of the women were addicted to drugs, many worked as prostitutes to fund their addictions, and some knew each other.

And evidence a serial killer is on the loose is mounting, with FBI stepping in to assist in the murder mystery.

Staff Lieutenant Mike Preston of the Ross County Sheriff’s Department told the newspaper the community was “starting to get concerned”.

“I don’t want to come out and say ‘yes, we have a serial killer’ but it’s a small community that we live in . . . and the number of females who have come up missing, and then the bodies that we’ve found, that’s quite a bit for our community,” he said.

“Everyone just wants answers.”

4. Former All Black’s orphaned baby girl has woken from coma.

The three-month-old daughter of former All Black Jerry Collins and his partner, Alana Madill – both tragically killed in a car crash three weeks ago – has awoken from her coma.

The family of baby Ayla, who survived the crash in southern France, has confirmed she is conscious and being bottle-fed in a French hospital, Stuff.co.nz reports.

Ms Madill’s sister, Nora, released a statement saying Ayla had successful surgery to relieve a build-up of fluid on her brain and was recovering well.

“Ayla is able to perform basic functions, such as being able to breathe on her own and to accept bottle feeding. We remain thankful for her progress and optimistic for her future,” the statement said.

“We are still uncertain as to the extent of Ayla’s injuries and we ask people to continue to pray for Ayla during her recovery,” the statement said.

5. Cadet found not guilty of raping a fellow cadet last Anzac Day.

Duntroon cadet Jonathan David Hibbert has been found not guilty of raping another cadet after testifying he had “no doubt” she was consenting.

An ACT Supreme Court jury acquitted Mr Hibbert of two charges yesterday after two hours of deliberations, the ABC reports.

The court heard during the four-day trial the pair had sex in Mr Hibbert’s room after meeting at a campus bar.

The woman told the jury she asked Mr Hibbert to stop when things began to get rough, but he held her down and choked her.

Mr Hibbert strongly denied the allegations and said the woman was consenting.

His lawyers argued the alleged victim reported the incident to protect her reputation and gave inconsistent evidence.

Justice Richard Refshauge asked the jury to decide whether the woman was no longer consenting and whether Mr Hibbert knew this.

Mr Hibbert left the court a free man, flanked by his family and supporters.

6. Man who sent threatening comments to feminist blogger claims he was just having “sick fun”.

A South Australian man who was exposed for sending lewd and threatening comments to a woman on Facebook has apologised.

Ryan Hawkins, 20, was publicly shamed after sending writer Clementine Ford violent rape threats in a Facebook message.

Mr Hawkins like many other men hurled online abuse at Ms Ford after she posted a photo in response to Sunrise blaming the victims of a recent nude photo leak.

“When Channel 7’s Sunrise asks ‘when will women learn’ instead of ‘why do men continue to view women as objects they can defile and violate while the world watches and tut-tuts’, they are victim blaming,” Ms Ford wrote alongside a semi-nude photo of herself.

When Mr Hawkins sent Ms Ford a vile Facebook message, she outed him to her followers.

Mr Hawkins admitted to knowing what it was like to be the victim of online bullies and attempted to apologise.

“I was being a smart arse, just trying to have some sick fun with her, but it didn’t really work,” Mr Hawkins told Victoria Harbor Times.

“I said sorry afterwards.”

South Australian police are further investigating the leaked photos.

7. Senator questions if Aboriginals were first people in Australia.

A Liberal Democrat senator has argued Australia shouldn’t recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution because it is not known whether they were really the first inhabitants of the land.

Senator David Leyonhjelm said “some anthropologists” contest that Indigenous Australians were the first occupants of the country, based on the difference in some cave paintings.

“It’s not something on which I’m taking sides, all I’m pointing out is that if there is any doubt at all then you have to say, well, why would you put history into the constitution under those circumstances?” Senator Leyonhjelm said.

“It has not been done before — we don’t put history about other things into our constitution. Why would you go there?”

ABC News reports Labor Senator Nova Peris said Senator Leyonhjelm should “put his head back into the sand.”

The comments come as a senate committee has pushed for the recognition of Indigenous Australians in the constitution – the document that created Australia as a nation.

8. Boy without electricity does homework outside of Maccas.

A photo of a boy doing his homework outside of a McDonald’s restaurant in the Philippines is attracting attention on social media.

The boy is pictured sitting at a makeshift table determinedly scribbling away in a book.

A passerby took the image and shared it to her Facebook page.

According to Rappler, Joyce Torrefranca later spoke to the McDonald’s manager and said the boy and his family frequently visit the area to beg for money.

He said the they do not have electricty at home, so they use the light outside the restaurant in North Reclamation — an area of Cebu in the Philippines.

Rappler identified the boy as nine-year-old Daniel Cabrera.

The photo has garnered the support of internet citizens — including fundraising programs — encouraging the boy and looking for ways to get in touch.

The photo was share more than 700 times on Joyce’s Facebook, but was later picked up by a man named Nam Nams — whose copy has been shared more than 32,000 times.

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