Darryl Valroy Young appears in Proserpine Court charged with Bogie shooting murders

Safety fears for a man charged with the execution-style murder of three people at a remote Queensland property has had a last-minute change to his court appearance.

A landowner charged with the execution-style murder of three neighbours at a remote Queensland property has appeared in court for the first time.

Distraught neighbours, whose property is on the boundary of Darryl Valroy Young, 59, and his alleged victims’, made the hours long journey for the case’s first mention.

Mr Young appeared via videolink from the Whitsunday watch house in Cannonvale.

A source told the News Corp that both police and Young’s legal representation agreed he should not appear in person, due to the lack of security facilities at the Proserpine courthouse.

“That was arranged over the weekend,” the source said.

He is charged with the murders of Mervyn, 71, and Maree, 59, Schwarz and Maree’s son Graham Tighe, 35, on August 4 at Bogie, west of Bowen.

Mr Young is further charged with the attempted murder of Maree’s other son Ross Tighe, who was allegedly forced to run and hide in bushes with a gunshot wound to his stomach after watching his family be gunned down.

Darryl Young appeared via videolink this morning.

He managed to get to a ute and drive 40km to a neighbouring property to raise the alarm.

Police will allege the murders were committed at the front gate of Mr Young’s Shannonvale Rd property over an ongoing border dispute.

The neighbours said it was important to be at the case “to try and get a final closure of what's been going on in the past 10 years”.

It was also “to support” the alleged victims.

The said it had been devastating for the Bogie community.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” they said.

The couple had been forced to “bunker down” after initial reports a gunman was on the loose after the alleged shooting.

The case of Mr Young, who is represented by Townsville solicitor Phil Rennick of Rennick Lawyers, has been adjourned to Bowen Magistrates Court later this year.

Prosecutors requested and were granted 12 weeks to prepare the brief of evidence – but it is understood the brief, which is expected to be large, may take longer to compile.

No bail application has been made.

In Queensland, a person charged with murder can only make a bail application before a Justice in the Supreme Court.

The case will be mentioned again on November 1 in Bowen.

While Proserpine Magistrates Court has a listed 8.30am opening time, the building opened at 8am and the matter was mentioned first up.

A spokesman for the Office of the Chief Magistrate said, “Magistrates court hearings occasionally proceed at slightly different times to those listed, for a variety of reasons, including when videolinks are involved.

“This instance was one of those occasions.”