Calls for changes amid Ashes scorcher

Experts are recommending Test cricket be played in the early morning and late afternoon to beat the searing midday heat. Source: News Limited

INTERNATIONAL Test matches should be moved to early morning and late afternoon sessions to reduce the dangers to cricketers and fans from the heat, experts say.

As the cricketers take to the field again today in what is the hottest England versus Australia Ashes match to be played in Perth, WA Institute of Sport lead physiologist Sacha Fulton said avoiding the hottest part of the day would be a safer option for players and spectators.

"If you played from 7am to 11am and then 3pm to 7pm including scheduled drinks breaks it would take them out of the heat of the day," she said. "But then you are probably working in England's favour."

Ms Fulton's comments follow a Perth GP's call for the matches to be rescheduled to the cooler parts of the day.

Temperatures for the Ashes test at the WACA are expected to peak at 39 degrees tomorrow, after three consecutive days of 38 degree maximums.

According to figures from the Bureau of Meteorology, it is the most consistently hot Ashes Test to be played in Perth.

During the December 2006 Ashes Test, the temperature reached 38.8 degrees Celsius - but for one day only.

Dr Colin Hughes, a former honorary medical officer for the WACA and AFL, said when outside temperatures rose to 35 degrees, it was more than 52 degrees on the field.

He said it was "extremely dangerous" to spend long hours in the sun during a heatwave. He said

Cricket Australia should follow the AFL's lead and reschedule games.

Ms Fulton said even mild levels of dehydration (three to five per cent of body weight) can affect athletic performance.

She said international cricketers did all the right things for playing in the heat and the sun by wearing white clothing which radiated heat away from the body, wearing long sleeves and trousers to protect from sunburn which affected hydration levels and most wore hats, zinc cream and sunglasses.

"They probably look after themselves better than any other sports people I know regarding protecting themselves from the heat," she said.

Ms Fulton said it was possible to train the body to better handle hot conditions.

"One of the downfalls for the English team is they don't often get exposed to this level of heat whereas our boys are used to it," she said.

Currently, players play through the hottest part of the day. The playing times for the current test are 10.30am to 12.30pm, 1.10pm to 3.10pm and 3.30 to 5.30pm.

Ms Fulton said changing the game times would "make a lot more sense".

Professor David Mountain, an emergency specialist and spokesman for the Australian Medical Association, said extreme heat could kill. But he said people with underlying medical problems were most at risk.

He said cricketers were not running at full pelt all the time, though fast bowlers were the most at risk.

Spectators, particularly those who had flown in from England and weren't used to high temperatures, also risked heat-related illnesses if they did not drink enough water and protect themselves from the sun.

A spokesman for Cricket Australia said the players were used to hot conditions.

"The cricketers have played in India in temperatures in the mid 40s with 90 plus humidity - they've played much worse than 36 degrees in Perth," he said.

Unions WA recommends its workers stop when temperatures reach 36 degrees Celsius in temperate areas and 38 degrees Celsius in northern areas.

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Population 5 million: Boom or bust?

Perth's population explosion will either make it the best place in Australia, or the worst, to live. Source: News Limited

PERTH'S population explosion will either make it the best place in Australia to live or an expensive, sprawling city plagued by congestion, according to a high-profile think tank.

The Committee for Perth say new projections that at least 3.9 million people will call Perth home by 2050 - and possibly as many as 5.4 million - should be a "game changer" in how the city is planned.

Research carried out by the organisation paints a bleak picture if Perth - currently home to 1.9 million people - continues on a "business as usual" approach to its growth.

If the right planning doesn't occur, when Perth's population reaches five million people we can expect:

*The size of the city's urban footprint will nearly triple to an estimated 15,700sqkm. The footprint would exceed that of Tokyo today, but have just one seventh the population;

*congestion will increase journey times by an average of 180% across the day and 300% in peak periods. A commuter currently spending one hour each way getting to and from work in peak periods will spend nearly three hours;

*there will be four to five million vehicles in Perth, meaning the city would have 15% more cars than are in London today, but 50% fewer people.

*house prices will rise to more than 16 times median income (up from 3.9 times in 2000 and 6.5 times today);

*an additional 30,636 hectares of bush land will need to be cleared and;

*more than three million people will live more than 20km from the CBD;

Based on current trends, Perth's population will grow the fastest of any Australian city and overtake Brisbane in about 15 years' time when they both reach three million people.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' mid-range growth projection, 5.5 million people will live in Perth by 2061, compared with Melbourne (8.6 million people), Sydney (8.5 million) and Brisbane (4.8 million).

"This is a game changer. It means that we potentially have less than 40 years to more than double the number of houses, roads, public transport, hospitals, schools and services than have been built in the region over the past 185 years," Committee for Perth CEO Marion Fulker said.

"As a region we have been blindsided by the rapid population growth in the region over the past decade. We have collectively continued operating on a business as usual pathway, when reality has been anything but."

But with a shared vision, Mrs Fulker says growth doesn't need to be seen as a negative and the future is still in Perth's hands to maintain its status as one of the world's most livable cities.

"Now is the time to embrace new ways of living by providing a wide range of housing choices in the inner and middle ring suburbs to stem the urban sprawl," she said.

"By developing an integrated public transport system across the metro area we can become the highest public transport users in the country meaning we will be less car dependent, less congested, more productive and with a great quality of life yet without a much greater footprint that we currently have."

Professor Peter Newman, director of the Curtin University Sustainability Institute, said the expansion of the city's railway system demonstrated how growth can be capitalised on to improve a city.

"Growth is something to be feared if you just let it overwhelm you, but it's something to be welcomed if you take the opportunities and put them to use in creating a better future," he said.

He advocates major investment in public transport infrastructure, higher density living near railway stations and greater priority given to redevelopment schemes, such as at Subi Centro.

In 2008, urban planner Professor Richard Weller authored a book which proposed various ways higher density living could redesign Perth for the 21st century.

But five years on from the publication of Boomtown 2050, Prof Weller said Perth was destined to become "the biggest lowest density city on earth".

"Unless the policy and culture changes radically I think you are more or less looking at doubling its current dimensions. So we might as well accept that Lancelin and Bunbury will become Perth's outer suburbs," the former University of Western Australia professor said.

But the body which represents WA's property development industry said the greenfield developments on Perth's fringe were masterplanned communities of higher density than the more established suburbs.

Debra Goostrey, chief executive office at the WA branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, said it was crucial employment opportunities were created near these new communities to the north and south, saying the notion of the CBD "being the centre of universe was not necessarily the way of the future".

"There are enormous opportunities for well-planned communities, rather than just suburbs that sprawl. Nobody wants to see homogeneous suburbs that go on-and-on as far as the eye can see. That is not good planning, but that does not mean that geographically you might not

have a reasonable spread," Mrs Goostrey said.

The Department of Planning said its Directions 2031 and Beyond report, published in 2010, provided a planning framework for what the State needs to do to cope with the predicted population growth.

A spokeswoman said a number of new planning documents will build on the strategy, including a new vision for Perth and Peel which anticipates a doubling of the population to 3.5 million people.

Three sub-regional structure plans for the north-east; north-west; and south metropolitan and Peel regions are expected to be released for public comment in 2014, she added.

Perth's medium growth population projection

2013: 1.9 million people

2020: 2.5m

2025: 2.8m

2030: 3.2m

2035: 3.5m

2040: 3.9m

2045: 4.3m

2050: 4.6m

2055: 5m

2061: 5.5m

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

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'Airline killed my dog' - man sues

Sharn Quarterman is suing Virgin and Jetpets after his 18-month-old dog Charlie died on a journey from Perth to the Gold Coast due to heat stress from being left on the tarmac. Picture: Adam Head Source: News Limited

THEY were best mates who looked out for each other, so when Sharn Quarterman's beloved dog Charlie died in transit to Queensland he called in lawyers.

The Gold Coast construction worker is suing Virgin and animal transporters Jetpets for $25,000, alleging their negligence killed his Australian bulldog.

Struggling to hold back tears, the 27-year-old who flies in and out of WA for work said he was shocked when an autopsy revealed how traumatic Charlie's last hours would have been.

On February 16, the day after the two-year-old dog died on a flight from Perth to Coolangatta, Matraville Veterinary Hospital in Sydney undertook an autopsy to determine Charlie's case of death.

Dr Nima Rahmani found Charlie's "lungs were collapsed and shrunk'' and put his death down to "heat stress and respiratory exhaustion''.

Charlie died from heat stress after being left on a hot tarmac en route from Perth to the Gold Coast. His owner is suing the airline and pet carrier.

Mr Quarterman said he drove Charlie to the airport and just before he handed him to Jetpets to load on to the evening Virgin flight, he gave him a walk and a drink. He paid $680 for Charlie's flight.

While it was a night flight, Perth had been in the midst of a heatwave and the temperature that night was about 40C.

Mr Quarterman said he received a phone call from Jetpets hours later to say that Charlie had died by the time the flight had landed in Sydney.

"I couldn't believe it. How did it happen?'' he said.

Mr Quarterman said Charlie had become his defacto family in WA and he even rented a house so they could be close to walking tracks.

"I can't even look at photos (because it's too upsetting) and I'm not ready to get another dog,'' he said.

Jetpets refused to comment, only to say the matter was being handled by its lawyers.

Virgin issued a brief statement. "We can confirm this matter is under investigation and as such we are unable to comment at this stage," a spokeswoman for Virgin said.

Tracey Jackson, of Couper Geysen Family and Animal Law, which is representing Mr Quarterman, said people and businesses that dealt with pets needed to understand how precious they were.

"(They need to) treat them as irreplaceable members of our family - not property,'' Mrs Jackson said.

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46C Hell-ter swelter at furnace-like WACA

TOO HOT: The Sunday Times thermometer peaked at 46.6C and Brits David Laing, Matt Goss and Adge Watson are feeling the heat. Picture: Stewart Allen Source: News Limited

CRICKET fans went into meltdown at the WACA as temperatures reached 46C, with the same heat blast set for tomorrow.

The Bureau of Meteorology recorded 40.4C in the shade at 12.15pm, a record for an Ashes Test at the WACA.

During the December 2006 Ashes Test, the temperature reached 38.8C - but for one day only. Ticket-holders for the sell-out match will have to endure at least another two days of searing temperatures.

It was too much for many spectators yesterday who headed for the exits as the mercury climbed above 40C in unshaded areas.

By lunch, six spectators needed first aid, with two people taken to hospital. A WACA spokesman said the fans had mostly been affected by heatstroke.

Perth fans Jared Heerema and Justin Van Dendoll brave the Ashes heat.

As many cricket die-hards maintained good humour despite their discomfort there were calls from some health experts for international Test matches to be moved to early morning and late afternoon sessions to minimise the dangers to cricketers and fans from the heat.

WA Institute of Sport lead physiologist Sacha Fulton said avoiding the hottest part of the day would be a safer option for players and spectators.

"If you played from 7am to 11am and then 3pm to 7pm including scheduled drinks breaks it would take them out of the heat of the day," she said. "But then you are probably working in England's favour."

Even the Barmy Army, which was in full cry as Australian wickets tumbled in the morning session, was subdued by the heat in the afternoon.

Hats all round, trying to beat the fierce WACA heat.

Water, rather than beer, was flowing freely as fans drenched their clothes to keep cool on the grassy banks. The WACA sold 40,000 bottles on the first two days of the Test.

Almost 500 litres of water, hundreds of icy poles and 30 litres of sunscreen were given away by Red Frog volunteers.

Shaded areas of the iconic ground were in high demand, with fans queuing up from 5am to secure a seat out of the sun.

At lunch, Nia Morton, who migrated to Perth from Wales retreated to her air-conditioned car with Stefan, too and four month old Daffyd.

The official temperature in Perth was 40.4C, but it was much hotter in the sun at the WACA.

"It's just too hot," she said T"he WACA needs more shaded areas. You don't see a lot of little ones here, which is a shame because this could be the Ashes last WACA test."

Sally Anderson has followed the England cricket team to the West Indies and Sri Lanka but said she'd never experienced anything like Perth's heat.

"This is the hottest I've ever had it at the cricket. At least in the West Indies you had a breeze, but there is no respite here."

Another England fan Vivien Carroll, 63, from Surrey, said she didn't see a single ball bowled on Friday after she almost fainted at 10am. She made it until tea-time yesterday after blagging her way into shaded area, but had to return to her hotel because the heat was "unbearable."

"When I came here in 1991 this stadium was state-of-the-art, but it's not anymore," she said. "You would think in a country so aware of sun protection there would be more shade provided, even if it's just temporary."

Graham and Helen Bullock, who left England for Perth 23 years ago, said playing earlier or later in the day wasn't the answer.

"It's cricket, it's Australia, there's not a lot you can do." Mr Bullock said.

Journalists put their overheating laptops in fridges to cool down.

Daily Mirror cricket journalist, Dean Wilson, said it was comparable with the hottest Test he'd ever experienced.

"You've just got to grin and bear it," he said.

Daily Mail sports writer, Martin Samuel, said it would be scandalous if international cricket was moved to a new stadium.

"It's my favourite cricket ground in Australia. I love that it's sort of ugly and had not been turned into a gigantic bowl," he said.

"The heat is one of the challenges especially for the visiting team because these are alien conditions."

A spokesman for Cricket Australia said the players were used to hot conditions.

"The cricketers have played in India in temperatures in the mid 40s with 90 plus humidity," he said.

Unions WA recommends its workers stop when temperatures reach 36 degrees Celsius in temperate areas and 38 degrees Celsius in northern areas.

Grant Williams, 28, from near Gatwick Airport came dressed as a Mexican for the day with fellow Englishman, Guy Smith, 33.

"Hopefully the sombreros will shade us a bit but we look far too much like Mitchell Johnson with these moustaches," he said.

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Diver dies off northern Perth beach

A diver has died at Burns Beach after a mishap in the water early today. Source: News Limited

A DIVER has died after getting into trouble in waters off Perth's northern beaches early today.

Water police and the Volunteer Marine Rescue service were called to a diver in distress about 1km off Burns Beach, some 34km north of Perth,

Police have advised the diver has died.

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Fireball erupts outside Carine Tavern

A truck on fire in the carpark of the Carine Tavern in Perth's north. Picture: Lauren Dickson/Twitter Source: Supplied

A FIRE in an alcohol delivery van erupted outside a northern suburbs pub, destroying the vehicle and some of the bar's signage.

The fire was reported outside the Carine Sports Bar on Beach Road in Duncraig just after 12.20pm this afternoon.

Witness Lauren Dickson, who works nearby, said a customer came into her store and told staff there was a fire.

She went outside to find an alcohol delivery van ablaze.

"It thankfully didn't spread to the actual Carine Tav," she said.

"I heard two bangs from the alcohol in the back of the van and the flames were so high, it was on top of the Carine sign, so much smoke."

Ms Dickson said workers from the nearby Carine Glades Shopping Centre gathered to watch the fire.

"People were stopping their cars on Beach Road to get out and have a look, and huge crowds were in the Carine Glades car park," she said.

According to a DFES spokesman the fire was extinguished after a short time.

It's understood the fire was sparked in a delivery truck in the car park of the tavern.

A photo posted on Twitter shows a vehicle engulfed in flames and the bar's signage also on fire.

Management at the Carine Sports Bar were unavailable for comment when contacted at 1pm but indicated they'd be able to speak later.

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Bunbury bombmaker pleads guilty

Ben Roberts leaves Bunbury Magistrates court after pleading guilty to charges of manufacturing explosives. Source: News Limited

A BUNBURY man has admitted to manufacturing a potentially deadly batch of explosives, which was discovered in a South-West estuary last month.

Ben Roberts, 33, pleaded guilty in Bunbury Magistrates Court this afternoon to five counts of making or possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances between July and October this year.

He also pleaded guilty to two charges of committing acts likely to endanger life, health and safety.

Roberts has been on bail since last month and arrived at court today with his girlfriend and family.

The court was told he made five batches of the volatile explosive TATP after obtaining chemicals from his workplace and later purchasing them from a hardware store.

State prosecutor Graham Pidco told the court Roberts made the "bombs" at home and detonated them at remote beaches and bushland in the South-West with friends.

Ben Roberts leaves Bunbury Magistrates court with his girlfriend after pleading guilty to charges of manufacturing explosives.

On one occasion, he went to The Cut and buried the explosives in a hole, wired them to his car battery and remotely detonated the substance, Mr Pidco said.

He later attended the Leschenault estuary where he placed a package of TATP in the water with rocks, tried unsuccessfully to detonate the explosives, and left them at the site.

The package was later found by a fisherman.

Mr Pidco argued the case should be transferred to the Perth District Court for sentencing, given the serious nature of the offences.

He described Mr Roberts'actions as "reckless" and said he showed a "blatant disregard" for the safety of his neighbours and family by producing the dangerous substance in the garage of his Bunbury home.

But defence lawyer Derek Hunter opposed the application, arguing the matters could be adequately dealt with in the magistrates court.

Mr Hunter said Roberts did not understand how dangerous the substance was that he was producing at the time and had no intention of ever hurting anyone or causing damage to property.

Magistrate Elizabeth Hamilton ordered a psychiatric report for Roberts and said she would view the police interview with the accused before deciding whether to move the matter to a higher court.

Roberts will reappear at the Bunbury Magistrates Court on February 17.

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Body in bush believed to be missing labourer

SUSPECTED MURDER: Detective Senior Sergeant James Bradley with images of missing man Michael Pruiti, who has not been seen since late October. Source: Supplied

POLICE have found a body - believed to be that of a missing Perth labourer - south-east of Perth.

Media reported that the body, located on a dirt track in Karragullen, was understood to be that of 31-year-old Lesmurdie man Michael Pruiti, who has been missing since October 26.

Officers were at the scene, covered by thick bush a couple of hundred metres off a dirt road in Karragullen, today.

They are expected to return to the same location tomorrow.

A police officer close to the case confirmed "remains had been found in the Karragullen area".

"We've found remains but we haven't indicated who it is yet because we haven't worked that out," the officer said.

"We've advised the (Pruiti) family that we are there but there is a lot of work still to do up there.

"We obviously want to confirm things first."

It is not yet clear what led officers to that particular patch of bush. But the bushland has a notorious past, with three bodies found in the area in two years.

Pruiti, a 31-year-old labourer, was last seen driving his red 2000 Mitsubishi Magna in Forrestfield about midday on October 26.

That car was found burnt out recently in bushland in Bartons Mill, near Pickering Brook.

Police and his family had appealed for members of the public to come forward with any information about his disappearance and suspected murder.

Anyone with any information is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Teacher jailed for producing child porn

A FORMER schoolteacher who took indecent photographs of hundreds of children at playgrounds and beaches around Perth, and then shared them on a child porn website, has been jailed for two years.

Garry Anthony Tysoe, 53, admitted to producing and distributing more than 1000 images of children, which were taken covertly using a zoom lens between January and August this year.

Tysoe then "traded" the images on a Russian-based child porn website, also adding indecent comments alongside the pictures, which concentrated on the genital areas of young girls estimated to be aged between eight and 13.

At the Perth District Court today, Judge Simon Stone commented that it appeared nowhere was safe for children to play without becoming the victims of pedophile interests.

"This is not a victimless crime, and it is difficult to imagine the distress and horror that a child would go through if they were told by someone they were on a child porn website indefinitely," Judge Stone said.

"And one wonders as a parent what you would say. It is out there now, Mr Tysoe, and you put it there."

The photos were taken at playgrounds, school sports carnivals, surf lifesaving events and beaches, then uploaded to the website under the pseudonym "VoyBoy1960".

Judge Stone said the children were clearly identifiable, and featured their school logo on their uniforms, and in some cases their faces.

He said it was impossible to know how many children had been photographed, but with more than 1000 images featuring as many as five youngsters together, he estimated hundreds may have been targeted.

"These were vulnerable children, going about normal childlike activities - even playing in playgrounds - and you covertly filmed them, and then contributed to the market in child exploitation material," Judge Stone said.

"You then sexualised these children, and engaged in a barter system to share the pictures with others from overseas."

Tysoe, who was a teacher for 25 years before becoming a trainer in the mining industry, was sentenced to two years immediate prison, with an eligibility for parole after one year.

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Depraved clan's messy family tree

The children would come in to town only a couple of times a year and looked "dirty", locals say. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Source: Supplied

ON A rough block of scrub hidden in the hills above a quiet NSW country town, the Colt family had a terrible secret.

Living in a row of ramshackle tents and sheds which had no showers, toilets or running water were 40 adults and children. But the Colts kept to themselves.

Neighbours on one of the large properties or hobby farms occasionally heard a chainsaw, but no laughter or play.

The men occasionally sold firewood and two of the adult men worked as council labourers.

Occasionally, the womenfolk would come into town in a four-wheel drive.

Out would pile a dirty troupe of ragtag children, some of them rail thin, wearing dirty clothes.

The town people didn't even know their names.

Occasionally, when the welfare officers came visiting, the children would be forced to attend a few days of school, where they needed remedial teaching.

It wasn't until a squad of police and child protection officers arrived unannounced on the property one day in early June last year, that the shocking truth about the Colts would be revealed.

Police and welfare officers were shocked by the appalling squalor and degradation on a property where children were found to be the result of incestuous relationships. Picture: Stock photo Source: Supplied

DEPRAVED SECRETS IN A COUNTRY TOWN

Not only were the Colt family closely related by generations of incest. In fear of discovery the appalling facts about their family, the Colts had fled three other Australian states before coming to rest in rural NSW.

And it was here that four generations of interbreeding exploded into a life of depravity.

Under the eye of the family matriarch, Betty Colt, who slept in the marital bed with her brother, the children copulated with each other and with adults.

Years of interrelations had resulted in some of the children misshapen and intellectually impaired. Many of them could not speak intelligibly.

They were profoundly neglected, to the point they didn't know how to shower or use toilet paper, and were covered in sores and racked with disease.

Left to their own devices, brothers with sisters, uncles with nieces, fathers with daughters, they engaged in sexual activities.

Ten of the children had parents who were probably father and daughter or brother and sister. Stock photo Source: Supplied Source: Supplied

The children also mutilated the genitalia of animals.

When the girls became pregnant, they would often simply miscarry on the farm, not wanting to arouse suspicions among doctors or health professionals.

While the Colt women claim outsiders had fathered their children - itinerant men, a wheat worker, a Swedish backpacker - science told otherwise.

When they finally managed to get test swabs into a laboratory, geneticists uncovered a family tree which was a nightmare of "homozygosity", when a child's parents are closely related.

Eight of the Colt children have parents who were either brother and sister, mother and son or father and daughter.

A further six have parents who were either aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, half siblings or grandparents and grandchild.

Interviews with the Colts revealed the family saga began back in New Zealand, in the first half of last century when June Colt was born to parents who were brother and sister.

June married Tim and in the 1970s the couple emigrated to Australia.

The family would then move, several times, between South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria, usually living in remote rural communities, shying away from public knowledge about the truth.

Tim and June gave birth to four daughters and two sons.

Three of the daughters - Rhonda, 47, Betty, 46, and Martha, 33, and at least one of the sons, Charlie, form the elder members of the family group in the NSW bush camp.

Betty had 13 children.

She contended their father was a man called Phil Walton, now dead, who was known to the family as Tim.

But genetics show one of her children, Bobby, 15, was fathered either by her father, whose name was Tim, or the brother she was sleeping with.

Four more of Betty's children were fathered by a close family member.

Betty's eldest child, Raylene, now aged 30, has a 13-year-old daughter, Kimberly.

Raylene insists Kimberly's father is a man called Sven, from Sweden or Switzerland.

Testing identifies Kimberly's father as either her half brother, an uncle or a grandfather.

The Colt family tree. Graphic: news.com.au Source: NewsComAu

Betty's second oldest child, Tammy, now aged 27, has given birth to three daughters, one of whom died from a rare genetic disorder, and all of whom, she eventually admitted, were fathered by her closest brother, Derek, 25.

Betty's younger sister, Martha Colt, 33, has five children, four of whom were fathered by her own father, Tim, or by her brother, and another who is the product of a union with a close relation.

It was the 10 youngest of Betty and Martha's children, and Raylene's daughter, Kimberly, 13, who ran wild in a sexual spree about the property.

Betty's children, Bobby, 15, Billy, 14, Brian, 12, Dwayne, 9, and Carmen, 8, all have parents who are close family members.

Martha's children, Albert, 15, Jed, 14, Ruth, 9, and Nadia, 7, are also the product of closely-related parents.

Interviewed by child protection workers and psychologists, they told of a virtual sexual free-for-all.

Ruth and Nadia said Albert, Jed and Karl showed them pornographic magazines, touched their breasts and Albert had sexual intercourse with them.

Kimberly said she had oral sex with Dwayne, while Carmen watched. Her mother Raylene had been aware of the incident.

Albert, Jed, Karl, Bobby and Billy admitted they tortured animals, including puppies and cats. Carmen said her father was her uncle Charlie.

Ruth said her father was Charlie. She also said her brothers, Jed and Karl, had sex with her.

Following the discovery of the Colt family in the hills, 12 children have been removed from their parents.

Their mothers have hired lawyers to argue in the courts for the children's return.

One of the mothers is due to face court on charges of procuring the removal of a child from care and recruiting a child for a crime, and further charges are expected.

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