A woman who fought a $183 speeding fine in court using “deluded and untenable pseudolegal arguments” regularly adopted by sovereign citizens has ended up with a penalty 10 times the original amount.
A prisoner who was the victim of a jailhouse ‘napalm’ attack is at risk of losing an eye after corrections staff refused him access to prescribed eye drops to treat the burns, court documents allege.
A man accused of breaking into an associate’s home, dousing him in methylated spirits and setting him on fire has argued he didn’t know the “extraordinary capabilities” the lighter had.
The alleged leader of ‘The Saints’ religious group charged over the death of eight-year-old Toowoomba girl Elizabeth Struhs has criticised the interception of their mail.
The decision to reintegrate a “sadistic” prisoner back into the mainstream population at the Woodford Correctional Centre will be one of several examined at an inquest into the murder of Duke Schafer.
The manager of Westfield Chermside Shopping Centre’s Lego store, who stole 40 boxes of Lego and $60,000 cash, torched the centre to cover up her crimes.
A female law student on the cusp of graduating has been jailed after she was busted operating a profitable drug trafficking business.
The brother of an Olympic kayaker who is facing a retrial over an alleged attempt to smuggle $200m of cocaine into Australia has been denied bail after an alleged discovery in his jail cell that a judge says “loomed darkly” over his plea for release.
A former Government House security guard who tried to kill his girlfriend in a terrifying axe attack in Brisbane’s CBD has abandoned an appeal against his 14-year jail sentence.
A woman allegedly involved in a harrowing attack on a young dad who was doused in petrol and set on fire has pleaded with a judge to release her from custody amid severe prison overcrowding.
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