Australia News LIVE: Urgent manhunt underway after a man was stabbed to death in the driveway of a suburban home

Published on: June 26, 2025

By KYLIE STEVENS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Updated: 23:15 BST, 26 June 2025

Welcome to Daily Mail Australia’s live blog. Here’s what’s making news on Friday.

Man stabbed to death outside a Sydney home

Homicide detectives have launched an urgent manhunt after a man was stabbed to death in Sydney’s west.

Emergency services were called to Driftway Drive at Pemulwuy about 10.45pm on Thursday after a man suffering from multiple stab wounds was found lying in a driveway.

The man, aged in his 20s, was reportedly pulled out of his car and attacked, Nine News reported.

He died at the scene, despite paramedics’ efforts to revive him.

Police launched an investigation with the assistance of the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad.

Officers and forensic officers spent the night scouring the crime scene and examining a silver Volkswagen Amarok ute in the driveway.

Detectives remain at the scene doorknocking residents on Friday morning.

No arrests have yet been made.

Anyone with information or CCTV is urged to call Crime Stoppers.

Policeman shot dead while on duty to be farewelled today

An experienced police officer shot dead at work will be farewelled by loved ones and colleagues at a private funeral and guard of honour.

Tasmania Police Constable Keith Anthony Smith, 57, died on June 16 when he approached a property in rural Tasmania to deliver a court-ordered home repossession warrant.

It was first fatal shooting of an officer in Tasmania in more than a century.

A 46-year-old North Motton man has been charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault.

Family, friends, colleagues and other invited guests will mourn Constable Smith at a private funeral in Devonport on Friday.

It will be followed by a guard of honour and funeral procession through Devonport and Ulverstone, with members of the public who wish to pay tribute to him encouraged to attend.

In a supplied undated image obtained on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, A supplied image of constable Keith Anthony Smith, who was shot dead at a rural property at North Motton in Tasmania. Keith Anthony Smith has been named as the officer who was shot dead on Monday at a rural property in Tasmania. (AAP Image/Supplied by Tasmania Police) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Wild house party ends in stabbing death in Brisbane

A boy, 15, has been charged with murder after a man was allegedly stabbed to death at a house party in an affluent Brisbane suburb.

Police were called to Oriel Road in Clayfield, about 8.15pm on Thursday, where a man, 58, was found unresponsive upstairs in a three-storey home following an alleged altercation.

‘There was some sort of altercation that resulted in this 58-year-old male tragically, losing his life,’ Acting Assistant Commissioner Rhys Wildman said.

A Clayfield teen was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with one count of murder (domestic violence offence).

He will appear in Brisbane Children’s Court on Friday.