Gold Coast crime and court: Hair-raising crimes of hairdressers
These six Gold Coast hairdressers all faced court for their crimes. WHAT THEY DID >>>
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FROM theft at Robina to a Chevron Island man charged with drug possession, and a Gold Coast woman drink-driving, here are six Gold Coast hairdressers who faced courts for their crimes.
Karla Jessica Condon
A Gold Coast hairdresser was jailed for hitting a man with a car after he posted something about her on social media.
A court was told Karla Jessica Condon drove into the man as he stood on a traffic island in Broadbeach about 8pm on December 14, 2018 then reversed and drove home.
Condon pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court to dangerous driving and failing to remain at a road incident.
The 30-year-old with no criminal history became teary-eyed after learning she would be spending three months behind bars.
Police prosecutor Constable Lewis said Condon had given the man – who was the partner of one of her friends – a ride to the casino earlier in the night and became angry after he posted about her onto his Instagram story.
Condon had informed people she would not be out that evening and the post showed otherwise, the court was told.
Defence lawyer Mollie Roper said the pair had a “toxic relationship” and she had planned to report him to police over harassment.
Magistrate Jane Bentley said Condon had deliberately hit him.
“You used your car as a weapon,” Ms Bentley said.
Condon was sentenced to 12 months in jail and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Jon Pierre Kairouz
Dubbed a wannabe ‘Nike bikie’ by police, Chevron Island hairdresser Jon Pierre Kairouz fronted court in July 2016 and pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and testosterone and three Diazapam tablets.
He also pleaded guilty to possession of a pair of locking handcuffs, which the court heard were bought from a sex shop, and possession of clip seal suspected to be used in the commission of a crime.
The items were found during the raid of a Surfers Paradise unit in February 2016, where police also found a “large amount” of Nike-brand shoes.
Kairouz’s barrister Angus Edwards told the court his client had been misusing illicit substances in the past but was now making efforts to get off the gear.
To prove it, he provided two clear urine tests to Magistrate Kay Philipson.
“He is remorseful and embarrassed,” Mr Edwards said.
Ms Philipson sentenced the man to 18 months probation, saying his offending was clearly related to one episode and had not stretched over a long period of time.
She said she should be “commended” for attempting to do something about his drug problem.
Angela Bisson
This Gold Coast hairdresser was once labelled Queensland’s worst drink driver.
Angela Bisson was found slumped over the wheel of her car outside Runaway Bay coffee shop Caffeine Break in October 2015.
She returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.48 which is almost 10 times over the legal limit.
Crown prosecutor Denise Darwen told the court she had been unable to find a court case that involved a higher reading and called the case “unprecedented territory”.
Bisson was sentenced to two months imprisonment and disqualified for 30 months in the Southport Magistrates Court.
She appealed the decision immediately and didn’t spend a night in jail.
In the Southport District Court on July 5, 2016 Bisson’s sentence was reduced on appeal to a two year probation order.
Her licence disqualification period was also reduced from 30 months to 24 months after Judge Clive Wall found the magistrate failed to take into account the circumstances of the driving.
Katrina Patricia Nadine Gorrie
A hairdresser and owner of two Gold Coast beauty salons walked free from court after a tourist was lured from a Noosa resort, held and tortured.
In February, Katrina Patricia Nadine Gorrie, 33, was sentenced to three years in jail with immediate release on parole for her involvement in the five-hour ordeal on April 14, 2019.
Maroochydore District Court heard the mum-of-two and business owner had known co-offender Timothy Andrew Butler for just days when they coaxed a tourist they met at Sofitel Noosa into a hatchback.
Crown prosecutor Christopher Cook said Butler drove for five minutes before he began swearing and yelling at the man from Sydney.
Butler then began punching the man in the head.
“Stop being a pussy,” Gorrie told the tourist as he pleaded for his freedom.
Butler continued to drive around for hours, calling the tourist names and periodically assaulting him.
Gorrie stole the tourist’s wallet and demanded his card pin before Butler withdrew $1000 from the man’s account about 3am.
The tourist was eventually left at Tewantin about 5.30am after Butler made death threats to him about contacting authorities.
Gorrie advertised the hatchback involved for sale on Facebook days after the ordeal.
She was arrested on the Gold Coast on April 24, 2019, when she denied her involvement.
Mr Cook said Gorrie was a party to the violence perpetrated by Butler because she aided and enabled his behaviour.
Butler was sentenced in September to six years in jail for torture and will be eligible for parole in May next year.
Gorrie pleaded guilty to seven charges including one count of deprivation of liberty and three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm in company.
She had spent 227 days in pre-sentence custody.
Defence barrister Nicholas McGhee said his client had struggled with alcohol abuse since she began binge-drinking as a teenager and most of the offending on her criminal history was alcohol-related.
NO CONVICTION RECORDED
Clarence Joseph
This former employee of Salon Express stole $1300 from Robina and Browns Plains outlets on August 13 last year to feed his cocaine and methamphetamine addiction.
Beenleigh Magistrates Court heard how Clarence Hyacinth Joseph, a hairdresser with no criminal history, “lost control and spiralled” into addiction.
The Ellen Grove man pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing as a servant.
The court heard Joseph, a former employee of Salon Express, stole from the Browns Plains and Robina outlets on August 13 last year.
His first theft was in Robina, where he attended for a haircut and then entered the storeroom to pinch cash.
Later that day, just after the Browns Plains outlet closed at 8pm that night, Joseph used his key to take money from the cash till and safe.
This theft was captured on CCTV and he later told police he had “lost control and spiralled”.
Defence lawyer Shane Elliott told the court his client “had some problems” but was fully rehabilitated and had submitted a number of negative urine samples over a period of time.
Magistrate Gary Finger placed Joseph on 12 months’ probation and did not record a conviction.
Carl David Hildick
AN award-winning hairdresser who touched a stranger’s genitals and buttocks and filmed him naked was trying to stop the younger man bathing with his mother, a court was told.
Carl David Hildick of Upper Coomera was drinking with his mum at Main Beach, celebrating her 50th birthday on December 9, 2018.
Hildick and his mum met a 19-year-old man who returned to the pair’s hotel room, prosecutor Amelia Baker-Smith told Southport Magistrates Court in May 2019.
She said the 19-year-old had been “in the bathroom with the defendant’s mother” before Hildick “entered the bathroom a number of times” and touched the victim’s “buttocks and penis”.
The victim was then “recorded” while he “was in the shower, without his permission”.
Ms Baker-Smith said a victim impact statement showed the 19-year-old was “greatly affected” by the events, labelled “more nuisance offending than sexually motivated”.
She asked Magistrate Kerrie O’Callaghan for a sentence to deter like-minded individuals from “touching others without consent”.
Hildick pleaded guilty to recording in breach of privacy and common assault, after a plea deal was struck and a charge of sexual assault was thrown out.
His lawyer, Dan Rawlings, said the 19-year-old man had been “flirting quite outrageously” with Hildick’s mum.
Mr Rawlings said Hildick had been “trying to protect his mother from the unwanted sexual advances”, but went about it “in a completely unacceptable way”.
Hildick did not share the recording of the 19-year-old, Mr Rawlings said.
Ms O’Callaghan fined Hildick $1200 for assaulting the “vulnerable” 19-year-old.
No conviction was recorded.
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