'No, mate, no': Registrar tells of calm before horror of Perth woman's courthouse stabbing

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, 29th July, 2019 PM News Update [Paul Gary Turner is accused of murdering his ex-partner. ]( ['No, mate, no': Registrar tells of calm before horror of Perth woman's courthouse stabbing]( BY Hannah Barry A Perth man had sent his ex-partner frequent texts and Facebook messages about their custodial arrangements, saying he didn't want things to "get any messier" before he allegedly stabbed her to death. --------------------------------------------------------------- Top stories [The remote, uninhabited island where wave after wave of the world's plastic ends up]( Rubbish is accumulating at a rate of several thousand pieces of plastic every day on the isolated Henderson Island, a speck of land in the southern Pacific Ocean. 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