Adam and Jessica Hanbury face murder charge in Mackay court
The case against Queensland parents charged with murdering their two-year-old daughter after allegedly failing to get her appropriate medical care has been heard in a Mackay court. LATEST
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The case against North Queensland parents charged with murdering their two-year-old daughter has been heard in a Mackay court.
Adam Hanbury and Jessica Hanbury, nee Polsoni, are charged with one count of murder over the death of Diana Hanbury in 2022.
Police alleged Diana, who is the youngest of the Hanburys’ six children, was already dead when her mother took her to Mackay Base Hospital about 8pm December 29.
It is alleged the young girl was unwell in the days before she was taken to the emergency department where hospital staff tried to resuscitate her.
The charge the parents face comes under the expanded definition of murder that includes reckless indifference.
Police allege Mr and Ms Hanbury, who moved to Mackay in 2020, neglected to get her appropriate medical attention in the lead up to her death.
The cause of death has not been released.
After the toddler’s death, police searched the family’s home in North Mackay which was declared a crime scene.
Both parents, who appeared before Mackay Magistrates Court on Monday, are further charged with failing to apply to have a birth registered.
Mr Hanbury is also charged with driving an unregistered vehicle, and using or permitting use of a vehicle for which the number plate attached was attached in a way other than registered.
Mr Hanbury appeared before court via video link from Capricornia Correctional Centre, as his lawyer Jaimee-Lee Jessop, of Gilshenan & Luton, spoke on the telephone.
Ms Hanbury, who was granted bail the week before, appeared in person accompanied by her lawyer Adam Harvey of Harvey Legal.
The court heard a brief of evidence was delivered to both lawyers in early April.
Ms Jessop asked Acting Magistrate Stephen Byrne for a six-week adjournment to allow time to go through the “significant amount of material” contained in the brief.
Mr Harvey also requested more time.
Mr Byrne adjourned all matters to June 24, remanded Mr Hanbury in custody, and enlarged Ms Hanbury’s bail.
Ms Hanbury’s bail was enlarged.
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