High-profile legal battles set to spill into 2025
As 2024 comes to a close, several high-profile legal battles in the Wide Bay region remain unresolved, with many set to continue into 2025.
Police & Courts
Fraudsters or thieves who swindled victims out of hundreds of thousands
From tradies and carers to white collar workers and business owners, there have been thousands of cases of fraud or theft reported across the region in the past two years. Here are 25 of those fraudsters or thieves named and shamed.
‘Cracked ribs, abrasions’: Police hunt ‘scumbags’ who ran 63-year-old man over
A Wide Bay man trying to sell his 2015 Commodore was run over and dragged 50m while trying to stop the fake potential buyers from driving off with it.
Named: Man charged after Gympie servo drama, highway crash in luxury car
A Jones Hill man has faced Gympie court over a series of incidents in the early hours of last Sunday morning at the Golden Nugget roadhouse south of Gympie then on the Bruce Highway at Kybong.
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Named: Qld man charged with 30 counts of rape, child grooming
The identity of a Queensland man facing court on three dozen charges for alleged sex offences, including rape, child grooming, and making and possessing child exploitation material can be revealed for the first time.
How mum allegedly ‘forged’ own character reference for court
A Gympie woman is headed to trial over allegations she attempted to pervert the course of justice in a bail hearing.
‘Gut-wrenching’ noise: Brickie who speared dingo was just trying to scare it
Witnesses have given evidence against a camper on K’gari who killed a young dingo with a spear gun because it was hanging around his campsite, recalling the dingo’s distressing final moments and the “horrible noise of an animal screaming and crying”.
‘Heard them screaming’: Cops track gouge marks on Bruce Hwy
Two men are on the run after allegedly smashing a car into a service station on the Bruce Highway overnight, hooking up the ATM inside and dragging it down the highway. WATCH THE VIDEO:
Shocking new photos show Bruce Hwy horror as two fight for life
New photos showing the aftermath of an explosive Bruce Highway crash between a truck and Suzuki Swift, which left a young girl and man in his 30s fighting for life, have emerged.
Two children among patients at crash scene
Three people have been taken to hospital after a rollover in the South Burnett involving two children.
Bones found in bush may be of girl swept away in 2022 floods
The heartbroken father of a 14-year-old Victorian girl, swept away by raging flood waters west of Gympie, has confirmed police have reached out after the discovery of human remains 2km downstream of where he last saw her.
Court told abattoir staff could be ‘scapegoats’ in animal cruelty trial
A lawyer for two former employees of one of Australia’s biggest pig processing plants has suggested in their trial the men may have been made ‘scapegoats’ by the company following the release of a covert video by animal activists. VIDEO
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