WA: Main stories in Perth's daily newspaper

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2009
WA: Main stories in Perth's daily newspaper

PERTH, April 15 AAP - Main stories in The West Australian newspaper on Monday:

Page 1: Taxpayers will foot a $600,000 annual bill to keep a convicted teenage sex
offender, who molested two girls at a McDonald's restaurant, under 24-hour supervision.

Page 3: Italian police are investigating the suspicious death of Perth antique dealer
Carlo Lampronti, who spent the past 20 years travelling between Perth and Rome.

Page 5: A small group of patients with type 1 diabetes were freed from daily insulin
injections for up to four years after a transplant using their own stemcells.

World: North Korea has announced it will quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks
and restart its atomic weapons program in protest at the United Nations' condemnation
of its rocket launch. (Pyongyang)

Business: Rebel BrisConnections shareholder Nicholas Bolton has sold the voting rights
to his 77 million units to Leighton Holdings - the construction company that is part of
the consortium building Brisbane's Airport Link toll road - in return for a $4.5 million
one-off payment.

Sport: West Coast coach John Worsfold has thrown his support behind veteran midfielder
Chad Fletcher, labelling the left-footer ahead of most of his squad on form so far this
season.

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