NAMED: Woman learns fate over fatal Mary St accident
A 29-year-old Gympie woman has been sentenced over the shocking pre-Christmas incident in Mary Street that eventually led to the death of another woman. Full details:
Police & Courts
Tomahawk-armed tradie attacks teen, screams at cops to shoot
An axe-wielding former concreter held a knife under a teen’s chin and ended up in an armed stand-off with Qld police drawing their guns.
NAMED: Fisherman allegedly had $42k cash, contraband crabs, meth
A Qld commercial fisherman and convicted drug trafficker has allegedly now been caught with tens of thousands of dollars in cash, a “significant” amount of meth, and crabs which require “further investigation”.
Online dating to terror: Choker ‘jams’ gun into woman’s mouth
A Qld labourer who met his victim on an online dating platform turned into the violent boyfriend of nightmares with his chilling campaign of control and threats continuing even while he was locked up. *Distressing.
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More delays in businessman’s high-profile rape case
A closed court hearing into charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent treatment against South Burnett businessman Joe Prendergast this week failed to reach an outcome.
‘Don’t leave us’: Tradie saves couple trapped in flash flooding
Dashcam footage has captured the moment a young carpenter braved waist-high flood waters in darkness to rescue a terrified couple trapped in their car. WATCH THE VIDEO:
Three caught in police hooning blitz
Police are cracking down on dangerous driving after several reports of hooning in the Mary Valley this month.
Police blitz exposes drink, drug drivers as four lives lost in four days
More than 5000 drivers have been breath tested for drugs and alcohol across the Wide Bay and Burnett in a police blitz that coincided with the tragic deaths of four people in as many days.
Partial verdict delivered in case of man charged with molesting his cousin
A Gympie District Court jury has returned its verdict after a day of deliberations in the case of a man charged with two counts of indecent treatment of his cousin, a child.
Six witnesses to be called as farmer faces deadly punch hearing
A hearing to determine whether there’s enough evidence against a young farmer charged over the pub punch death of a father of six will be held on the Fraser Coast.
‘Dozens of rapes’: Heinous Gympie child predator exposed
This 70-year-old Qld man’s vile sexual abuse of two young boys included editing one’s face onto pornographic images and giving him sickening nicknames. *DISTRESSING
Taste of meth in Covid turmoil turns stand-up citizen into trafficker
Until he was 37, this Qld man had a clean record. But amid the pandemic, a “conventional” life quickly turned to one of crime.
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