Mokbel's lover slips home

Tony Mokbel's girlfriend and children are believed to be have slipped into Melbourne early today. Danielle Maguire, 13-year-old Brittney and 18-month-old Renate, born while her parents were still on the run from authorities, reportedly arrived on a Gulf Air flight from Singapore and avoided waiting media at Melbourne airport. A police spokeswoman said this morning there were no plans to charge Ms Maguire and refused to say if police had met her at the airport. Mokbel returned to Australia from Greece under police guard on May 17 after an 11-month extradition battle to face charges of two counts of murder, failing to appear before court and multiple drug trafficking charges. He disappeared in March 2006 in the middle of a cocaine smuggling trial and was just before being convicted in absentia by a Supreme Court jury. Ms... [read full story]