A Queensland Uber driver faces being deported after being sentenced for the “remorseless and frightening” sexual attack of a vulnerable young passenger he wanted a threesome with.
One of the men convicted over the infamous torture and double killings dubbed the “toolbox murders” has learnt his fate in the state’s highest court.
A teenage boy who repeatedly stabbed a sunbaking woman in a random and frenzied attack at a Queensland beach is attempting to appeal his jail sentence.
An 18-year-old man who wants to be a doctor was given probation and dodged a conviction after he was busted by cops couriering a huge haul of methamphetine while still in his final year at school.
A Brisbane barber who pinned his girlfriend to the ground in a brutal attack that left her with a broken rib has been sentenced over the “incredibly ugly” incident.
A Brisbane butcher sent sickening messages to two mothers offering to pay thousands of dollars to have sex with their young daughters aged just 11 and 12.
A Queensland teacher who took Facebook screenshots of a student in her swimwear and asked about other children’s sex lives has been allowed to return to the profession.
A woman who fought a $183 speeding fine in court using “deluded and untenable pseudolegal arguments” regularly adopted by sovereign citizens has ended up with a penalty 10 times the original amount.
A prisoner who was the victim of a jailhouse ‘napalm’ attack is at risk of losing an eye after corrections staff refused him access to prescribed eye drops to treat the burns, court documents allege.
A man accused of breaking into an associate’s home, dousing him in methylated spirits and setting him on fire has argued he didn’t know the “extraordinary capabilities” the lighter had.
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