Gold Coast crime: Most shocking moments of 2021 so far
From choking to hoons to robbery, Gold Coast has had no shortage of dramatic court and crime moments so far in 2021. These are the ones that shocked us. FULL LIST
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FROM choking to hoons to robbery, Gold Coast has had no shortage of dramatic court and crime moments so far in 2021. These are the ones that shocked us.
In the second edition of our Six-Month Six-Pack for 2021, we look at the cases that truly rocked us.
Dad sentenced for incest with adult daughter
AN estranged father and daughter who reconnected over Facebook met twice in Gold Coast hotels after their messages inexplicably turned sexual.
The dad, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police he knew it was wrong when the pair engaged in sexual intercourse.
'Stupid' and 'blatant' mistake Barbaro made 96 times
ACCUSED Mongols bikie Harley Barbaro was warned four times before he breached an anti-consorting notice 96 times in four months to have conversations with his “best friends”.
The 28-year-old was issued with multiple consorting notices banning him from contacting about 50 people who were classed as recognised offenders.
Coast man charged over adult shop heist
POLICE have charged a 31-year-old man over a Gold Coast adult shop robbery where more than $20,000 high-end sex toys were allegedly stolen and later marked-up for sale on the black market.
Helensvale father Dylan Edward Nikeller is behind bars on remand after being charged with a number of offences including entering a premises with intent and receiving tainted property in relation to the December 18 heist at Sexy World, Nerang.
Fireworks fired at chopper during ‘outrageous’ Coast hoon meet
POLICE vehicles have been pelted with rocks, bottles and fireworks – also aimed at a helicopter – at an out-of-control and “outrageous” Gold Coast hoon meet.
Police – out in force across the northern Gold Coast targeting hooning – attended a “gathering of approximately 600 vehicles and 1000 people” in a Pimpama business car park at 10pm.
WATCH: Elderly neighbours fight over social distancing
TWO elderly neighbours came to blows in a luxury Main Beach tower after a row over social distancing laws.
But the Southport Magistrates Court on Friday cleared 77-year-old Brian Powell of any guilt, finding he was protecting his wife who had pneumonia in both lungs.
Mum killed in horror crash by driver banned for 15 years
A SERIAL dangerous driver had his licence back for 15 months after a 15-year ban and was on a cocktail of drugs when he flipped his car on the southern M1, killing the mum in the passenger seat.
He will be eligible for parole in just over two years.
Suzana Lazarevic was thrown from the speeding Holden Commodore after it crashed into the barrier on the Pacific Motorway at Tugun about 2am on April 19, 2019.
Stalker's chilling message to Mick Fanning
AN obsessed mother told world champion surfer Mick Fanning she “occasionally wanted to kill” him in four chilling ramblings in less than a month.
Sarah Anne Foote’s crazed fixation ended when Mr Fanning found her in his house on February 2 last year.
Fraudster jailed for stealing $774k from doctor boss
A FORMER practice manager stole nearly $800,000 from her Gold Coast employer by using her bank account details to accept health fund rebates meant for her boss.
The Southport District Court was told the Kingscliff woman stole the money over a seven-year period and was only caught after her employer, Dr Ibrahim Abdool, retired and new staff discovered the scheme.
Burleigh bar owner learns fate over choking
GOLD Coast bar owner Jonathan Debeere has been sentenced to two years’ jail for choking a woman in 2015.
But he will not spend a day behind bars, with the NSW District Court today ordering the sentence be served as an intensive correction order, meaning he can remain in the community.
As part of the intensive correction order, Debeere will be required to participate in treatment programs and undergo psychological counselling.
WATCH: Trio flee suspected stolen car after flipping it
TWO people pop their heads up through the driver’s side window of a flipped and suspected stolen vehicle laying on its side in Mermaid Beach.
Footage posted to social media shows two people police are now looking for casually jumping out of the car from the driver’s side window.
Shock decision in trial of man accused of rape at Coast uni
A JURY has been unable come to a unanimous decision for a man accused of raping and beating his girlfriend multiple times in Bond University accommodation.
After a three-day trial the jury were unable to reach a verdict.
Judge David Kent sent them home after more than three hours of deliberation on Wednesday afternoon.
Coast man pleads guilty to ‘sickening’ rape
A MAN will serve six months’ jail for raping a woman at a house party while she slept in her own bed with her children.
She was left bleeding and was forced to move house due to the anxiety of living in the same home.
Man floored in sickening one-punch attack
A MAN was knocked out from behind and then dragged from the road in a horrifying one-punch attack in Southport.
Brad Cameron Smith pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday to assault occasioning bodily harm and a string of other charges.
‘Not all heroes wear capes’: One of seven guilty of group bashing
One of seven men - including a bikie trio and Gold Coast gym owner who planned a rival’s bashing for allegedly refusing to give back a woman’s car - says “not all heroes wear capes”.
‘Lucky to be alive’: Dad reveals harrowing state of woman shot in back
The father of a Gold Coast woman who survived being blasted in the back by a shotgun has revealed it missed her heart and spine but “sadly that’s where the good news ends”. FULL STORY