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Police said they found the plastic-wrapped drug bricks inside boat engines being delivered from California.

Man charged after 140kg of cocaine ‘found in boat engines’

The 35-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday accused of importing drug bricks into Queensland from the United States.

  • Laine Clark

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Bruce Lehrmann in June last year.

Lehrmann lawyer ‘missing’ witness statements, CCTV footage ahead of rape trial

Lehrmann’s lawyer said the court needed to deal with her need for evidence disclosure before considering the prosecution’s application to have the alleged victim declared a special witness.

  • Rex Martinich
Louise Hunt has been remembered as an “exceptional human being”.

Louise ‘cherished time with family’: Mum mourned as husband charged with murder

Cameron Hunt was arrested 200 kilometres away in Redcliffe after his wife’s body was found in the charred remains of their home.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Marissa Calligeros
Strangulation was reported by nearly nine in 10 women calling Victoria’s 24/7 family-violence crisis response centre, Safe Steps, this year.

‘I could have died’: Jail time for strangulation to be doubled under Qld plan

In calling for tougher penalties, the Queensland Law Reform Commission says sexual strangulation has been normalised – especially among young people.

  • Cloe Read
Toyah Cordingley was found dead on Wangetti Beach, north of Cairns.

Beach murder jury dismissed after failing to reach a verdict

A jury has been unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of a man accused of killing Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley.

  • Rex Martinich
Darren Wayne Rudkin and his partner Farrah De Gelder, who are both charged with aggravated stealing.

Evicted couple accused of stealing estimated $100k of furniture from mansion

Darren Wayne Rudkin and Farrah De Gelder are each charged with aggravated stealing, an offence that carries a maximum penalty of 10 to 14 years’ jail.

  • Dan Nolan
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Steven Fennell was convicted of Liselotte Watson’s murder, but was later released after spending six years behind bars.

State defends detectives sued by man acquitted of island murder

Two detectives who worked the murder case of a Queensland grandmother, before an acquittal prompted a $5.5 million damages claim, have the government’s support.

  • Cloe Read
The Queensland Law Reform Commission has found hundreds of cases where parents avoided charges by claiming a defence of ‘domestic discipline’.

‘Domestic discipline’: Hundreds of alleged child abuse cases dropped

Police told the Queensland Law Reform Commission parents were able to avoid criminal charges by claiming it was necessary to use force when raising a child.

  • Sean Parnell
When police initially discovered the body of Tomislav Nemes in his Benowa home, they believed his remains were there for more than a year.

Man to stand trial over ‘mummified’ remains found in Gold Coast home

The man allegedly sedated his sick stepfather in the months before his death, and was motivated by the potential financial gain, a court has heard.

  • Cloe Read
Elizabeth Struhs, 8, was allegedly denied medical care.

Religious group guilty of killing girl by putting faith before medicine

Fourteen members of “The Saints”, including the girl’s parents, were found guilty of manslaughter after withholding her diabetes medication to trust in God.

  • Cloe Read

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