Gold Coast court and crime: A school locks down, an inquest into a baby’s death and bikie bosses all before the courts

A Gold Coast school locked down for hours and an alleged bikie boss’s argument about a shopping centre – it was another big week in court and crime.

IT was a big week on the Gold Coast last week – catch up with the complete wrap of all your court and crime news.

Teen charged after school locked down for four hours

GOLD Coast police have charged a teenager with possessing a knife in public after a school and two daycare centres were thrust into lockdown for almost four hours.

Officers were called to the vicinity of Government Rd, Gordon St and Imperial Parade, around Labrador State School, about 2.40pm on Wednesday.

Parents waiting outside the gates of Labrador State School, which went into lockdown on Wednesday afternoon.

Police were called to assist after “a 17-year-old person reportedly made threats” and a plan was made “to safely evacuate children” from the educational institutions.

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Mates dragged teen inside after he fell 9m from resort balcony

THE friends of a critically injured teen who fell about nine metres from a resort balcony at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast dragged their mate back upstairs instead of seeking help.

Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics, including Critical Care and the High Acuity Response Unit, were called to Orchid Ave about 12.45am on Thursday – about 45 minutes after the fall.

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‘Lives with the trauma every day’: Dad’s devastation over baby tragedy

THE father of a baby girl who died following a home birth hopes recommendations made by a coroner prevent a family from suffering a similar tragedy.

Coroner Jane Bentley on Friday found Zamia Ely-Smith’s death would have been preventable had she been born in hospital rather than in a Gold Coast home.

Zamia died on January 13, 2018 in the Gold Coast University Hospital after her birth at home was performed by two private midwives.

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Surgeon sued after nose allegedly left ‘dipping’ and ‘falling away’

A GOLD Coast woman is suing a surgeon for almost $500,000 after a procedure left her nose “dipping” and “falling away”, it is alleged in court documents.

Samantha Anable before the surgery and after the surgery.

Samantha Anable was forced to have a second procedure done by ear, nose and throat surgeon Mark Courtney two months later to fix the problem, according to documents filed in the

Southport District Court.

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WATCH: Warnings over bizarre Coast licence plate licker

DISTURBING footage of a Gold Coast man allegedly licking female car owners licence plates is circulating online, sparking warnings to unsuspecting women.

Alarming video posted to popular social media app TikTok shows the man brazenly film as he approaches a vehicle parked in a public space in broad daylight.

Though the video appears innocent at first it quickly takes a graphic and uncomfortable turn as the man crouches down to tongue the personalised registration plate.

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Bizarre scenes as man chased down beach with replica gun

A TRADIE with alleged bikie links – in a black motorbike helmet and white tracksuit – chased a man along a Gold Coast beach waving a replica handgun, before fleeing on a motorcycle.

Bowie Papa wore a motorbike helmet and tracksuit as he chased a man down a Surfers Paradise beach. Picture: Jerad Williams

Bowie Sheng Papa had also zip-tied a “dodgy” number plate to the back of his getaway motorbike.

The fake number plate read CLIT 69.

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‘Bikie boss’: It’s a market, not a shopping centre

AN alleged national bikie boss has questioned if a well-known Gold Coast complex is a market or shopping centre after being accused breaching strict bail conditions.

Tyrone Wilton Norman Poole appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with one count of breaching bail.

Tyrone Poole has argued the Ferry Road Markets are not a shopping centre.

The court was told Poole, who police allege is a national Mongols office bearer, was placed on bail in June for allegedly being part of a brawl with rival gang members in a Southport shopping centre.

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Alleged bikie boss’s cancer battle

AN alleged bikie boss who once confronted a pair of armed bank robbers has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Alleged Hells Angels president Gregory Pearce was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer and is undergoing treatment.

Alleged Hells Angels boss Greg Pearce has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Pearce was to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning charged with 29 counts of failing to provide an approved form or any information to the commissioner when required under tax law.

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Hope Island man charged with rape

A Gold Coast man has been charged with the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl.

Detectives launched an investigation in July after the girl’s family member notified police of the allegations.

Police will allege the man – who was linked to the girl’s family – raped the girl, then 10, in the family home in the northern suburbs of the Gold Coast as she slept in 2017 and 2018.

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Parking row sparks alleged threat to kill

THREE Surfers Paradise residents have taken a neighbour to court in a fiery row over a car park.

The dispute allegedly involved a neighbour putting up a sign asking not to park across the driveway, and threatening to kill a resident as they walked through the car park, according to court documents.

Neighbours Istavan Hegyesi, Csilla Molnar and Romme Sullano have gone to the Southport Magistrates Court to ask for a peace and good behaviour order against their Trickett St neighbour Andrew Roberts.

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‘We’d land ecstasy for $3 in Brissy, sell it for $60 in Surfers Paradise’

THE man once tasked to take out the bikies from the Gold Coast has revealed the astonishing mark-up they could make on the Glitter Strip selling illicit drugs.

Former superintendent Jim Keogh, who led the bikie-busting police team the Rapid Action Patrol (RAP) squad from 2013-15, says a criminal once told him they could import an ecstasy tab for $3 a pop and sell it in Surfers Paradise for 20 times that.

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‘Distraught’ children caught up in alleged cop car ramming

A MAN has been charged with abduction and a string of other charges after allegedly driving at police officers, and ramming a cop car, while he had his partner’s three children in the vehicle.

Police approached the vehicle as it crossed the Tweed-Coolangatta border about 5.30pm Saturday, but the driver allegedly sped off, forcing an officer to jump out of its path.

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‘I was freaking out’: Shop owner on ram-raid aftermath

THE founder of a long-running electric skateboard business on the Gold Coast has spoken about watching the botched ram-raid break-in of his Varsity Lakes premises live on CCTV.

Evolve Skateboard’s Jeffrey Anning said the ram-raid was the fourth break-in at the business this year, but on this attempt the crooks driving a stolen Mahindra ute were unsuccessful.

“Nothing was stolen. It was a massive failed attempt,” Mr Anning said.

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