Burnett DV shame: Offenders threaten partners or cops, with one breaching orders more than 20 times

From a daughter attacking her frail parents to a man locking his ex in a room and brutalising her with pliers, Burnett courtrooms routinely witness horrific cases of domestic violence. Here are some shocking recent cases:

From a man jailed for for strangling and cutting his partner with a machete to a daughter who hurled abuse at her own parents a viciously attacked them, these are just some of the shocking domestic violence cases Burnett courts must deal with every week.

Here are just some of the cases the Burnett courts have dealt with in recent months:

38-year-old daughter jailed for assault on mum, stepdad at Maidenwell home

A woman will spend months in jail over a violent outburst at her parents’ home, in which she hurled abuse at her stepfather and physically attacked both him and her mother.

Alicia Maree Green was living with her mother and stepfather, both aged in their late 60s, at their Maidenwell home on May 11 when she was asked to be quiet so her mother could rest.

The simple request sparked Green into a furious and horrifying attack on her frail parents, ripping skin from her mother's hand and calling her stepfather a “paedophile”.

Her mother tried to call triple-zero, but Green grab the phone and threw it across the room, telling her terrified parents, “If the cops come, you won't see tomorrow”.

Green pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and one each of threatening violence and wilful damage.

She was sentenced to 12 months’ jail, with eligibility for parole on September 11.

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Serial domestic violence offender walks free after breaching order more than a dozen times

A serial domestic violence offender has again narrowly avoided jail time, this time after threatening his partner over a cigarette lighter and splattering food she’d bought him across her house.

The 35-year-old, who has 15 prior convictions against the woman, began hurling abuse at her before she even walked through the door of her Wondai home on February 17, accusing her of being out with another man.

The woman handed the man a bag of McDonald’s she’d bought for him and ignored his comments as she headed for her bedroom, police prosecutor Barry Stevens told Murgon Magistrates Court.

The man hurled the bag filled with fries and sweet and sour sauce down the hallway toward her, with the contents bursting over the woman’s walls and floor.

The court heard the man was on two existing suspended jail sentences at the time of the offending.

“If you keep committing domestic violence offences I can, and the courts say I should, send you to jail for up to three years,” Magistrate Andrew Sinclair said.

“Or I could send you to the District Court where they’ll send you to jail for five years.”

The man pleaded guilty to breaching his domestic violence order and was sentenced to three months’ jail.

His suspended sentences were also activated, leaving him with a total four-month jail sentence, but he walked free from court on immediate parole.

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Repeat Kingaroy DV offender receives jail sentence for menacing behaviour, assaulting cops

A repeat DV offender was warned police are trained to shoot knife wielders, after he marched towards officers with a knife during his latest offending.

The 43-year-old father, who cannot be named to protect his victim, has found himself back behind bars after he repeatedly attempted to push his way into his former partner’s home and car, flicked a lit cigarette at her and threatened police with a Stanley knife.

The man had only recently completed parole after serving time behind bars for similar offending, when he arrived at his victim’s home on June 1.

He repeatedly tried to enter her home, and later jumped in her car when she attempted to leave – forcing a confrontation with police.

While speaking to officers, the defendant reacted and grabbed a stanley knife, threatening officers saying, “I’ll stick it up you”.

An officer drew his taser in response and the man dropped the knife and was handcuffed.

While being taken to the police vehicle, he demanded a smoke and shouldered an officer when he was told no, before resisting being put in the vehicle.

Magistrate Andrew Sinclair noted the man had breached this DVO 20 times previously, and told the man it was clear the orders “have lost value in your mind”.

The man pleaded guilty to three counts of contravening a domestic violence order, wilful damage, assaulting police and obstructing police.

He was sentenced to 12 months’ jail, with a parole release date set for September 1.

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32-year-old jailed for assaults on 8-year-old stepson in Murgon

A family holiday in Murgon turned into a nightmare for an eight-year-old boy, when he was headbutted and kicked by his stepfather.

The young boy was assaulted twice by his stepfather in Murgon in January this year while the man was heavily intoxicated.

The 32-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the child’s identity, had been drinking on January 9, and began hurling abuse at the boy and calling him names.

This quickly escalated, with the child’s siblings telling police they saw the man headbutt and kick the boy as well as “put him in a trash bin”.

The abuse continued when the group returned to a caravan park, with the man continuing to kick the boy and call him “pissy pants”, despite the boy’s mother telling him to stop.

This was also witnessed by shocked campers, who recorded the aftermath and called police at about 6pm.

The man faced Kingaroy Magistrates Court on April 21, 2022, and pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while intoxicated.

Magistrate Barry Barrett sentenced the man to nine months’ jail, suspended for 15 months.

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Man sentenced for terrifying attack on ex-partner with pliers

A South Burnett woman was locked in a room, brutalised with pliers and threatened during a terrifying incident that lasted hours after her ex-partner accused her of stealing his drugs.

When the young woman arrived at Samuel Woodward’s home to give him food in May 2021, things quickly spiralled out of control as the heavy ice user began to accuse her of stealing drugs from him.

The now 32-year-old subjected his victim to hours of terror, locking her in his bedroom and yelling threats, crown prosecutor Samantha O’Rourke told the Kingaroy District Court.

The shocking incident into physical violence when Woodward approached the woman with a weapon in his hands.

“(He) took a pair of pliers and clamped them over her fingers which caused an injury when she pulled her hand away,” Ms O’Rourke said.

The threats against the woman continued, even after he let her out of the room, ominously telling her, “girls like you end up in ditches”.

Woodward pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm, deprivation of liberty and making threats.

Woodward, who served almost 10 months in pre-sentence custody, was sentenced to 18 months’ jail and released on parole on April 29.

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Man sentenced to jail for violent attack on mother of his children with machete

A Cherbourg man was sentenced to two and a half years in jail after he grabbed the mother of his children by the neck and cut her arm with a machete.

Tyreece Elijah Mervyn Simpson went home to rest after attending a party at Cherbourg on September 12 when his girlfriend of eight years told him she wanted to return to the event, which infuriated him to the point of grabbing her by the throat.

The 21-year-old told the woman she “wasn’t f–king leaving” and forced her by the neck into the bedroom, Crown Prosecutor Samantha O’Rourke told the Kingaroy District Court.

Simpson went on to punch the woman and then armed himself with a machete and cut her forearm and hand.

Simpson pleaded guilty to choking, strangulation or suffocation, assault occasioning bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail

His parole release date was set for April 30.

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