Qld Supreme Court: 6 shocking Gympie cases
A man acquitted of a 23-year-old cold case murder and the fight to keep a registered sex offender in jail are among six shocking Gympie region cases to make it all the way to the Supreme Court in the past year.
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A man acquitted of a 23-year-old cold case murder and a couple booted from their management job are among six shocking legal cases to make it all the way to the Queensland’s Supreme Court in the past year.
These matter were joined by a decision on an elderly woman’s attempt to claim a $1.6 million inheritance and the resolution of a decade-long fight by the state government to keep a convicted sex offender in jail.
This is the full list of matters to have appeared in the state’s highest court since June last year.
Council gives caravan park managers the boot
The managers of the Gympie Caravan Park were evicted by the Gympie Regional Council over health and safety issues after the Supreme Court ruled the couple breached their lease by failing to upgrade the site’s toilets and kitchens.
Justice Peter Flanagan found managers Richard Kemp and Emma Noble had “failed to comply with the requirements for remedying these breaches”.
The couple, who were engaged in a three year battle with the council over the park, were ordered to pay the council‘s court costs.
Rapist who attacked a Gympie woman and child freed from jail
A convicted Gympie rapist was released back into the community amid an ongoing battle by the Queensland Attorney-General to keep him jailed as a dangerous prisoner.
Nigel Patrick Robinson and the AG were embroiled in a decades-long fight over his freedom following his conviction for rape and other sex crimes more than 20 years ago.
Robinson, 41, was convicted of multiple sex crimes in 1997.
Tony Boyd Carmichael walks from court, found not guilty of murder
A man accused of the 20-year-old murder of Gregory Armstrong by shooting him twice in the head walked from court after being found not guilty.
Justice Peter Applegarth acquitted Tony Boyd Carmichael, 46, of the murder charge after delivering his verdict in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
Mr Carmichael’s lawyer said his client, who grinned as he left the courtroom, was “extraordinarily glad that this is all behind him”.
Online predator who targeted teens and tweens
A dangerous and psychopathic online sex offender who groomed and exploited six children aged between 12 and 14, while living in Gympie, has been released from prison.
The 25-year-old man, identified only as “SDWH”, had been behind bars since October 2016, after being found guilty of more than 40 offences between April and September that year.
These crimes included 24 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16, five counts of using a carriage service to solicit pornography, four counts of distributing child exploitation material and four counts of grooming a child under 16.
Failed Southside subdivision costs developers $4m
The developers of a failed Southside subdivision have been ordered to repay investors more than $4 million for breaching their contracts.
David George Vicini brought the class action case against GM Investment Property (also known as The 2 Kings Gympie Trust) and Glen Taylor over GM Investment’s decision to use the Southside land as security for a $1.5 million loan.
According to Judge David Jackson’s ruling in the Brisbane Supreme Court, the company agreed to buy the land located between Sorensen and Groundwater Roads for $2.75 million in the middle of 2017.
81yo woman loses fight to inherit $1.6m estate
An 81-year-old woman lost her fight to claim either the $1.6m estate belonging to a 92-year-old Gympie man or the $350,000 home he left her in an informal will, after the court ruled their de facto relationship had ended years before his death.
The woman had been left the home near Bundaberg in an unwitnessed will and testament found at the property following the man‘s death in January 2020.
The house was part of a $1.6m estate he left behind, which included another $200,000 property and $1m in a term deposit.
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