RockhamptonA Central Queensland former business director has been jailed for multiple sexual assaults against a child with many impairments of the mind.
QLD NewsKey recommendations from a landmark commission of inquiry into how Queensland Police respond to domestic and family violence have not been enacted six months on, it can be revealed.
Police & CourtsA fisherman who got into a drunken fight with another man then turned on police officers who were trying to defuse the situation.
Police & CourtsA teenage boy who threatened to “gutter stomp” one child’s teeth, grew up in home where crime and drug use were “normal”.
Police & CourtsA court has heard how a man would accept sexual favours as payment during his three-month drug trafficking business, which was uncovered during a major police operation.
Police & CourtsA Gladstone meth dealer with a “substantial criminal history” has been taken off the streets and put behind bars.
RockhamptonA decision to drink on after a 21st party left one miner red-faced after he mistakenly groped a male police officer’s buttocks outside a nightclub.
RockhamptonDeath threats to dealers’ kids, secret phone taps and tip offs to cops to cut out competition. It might sound like an Underbelly script but for this Queensland drug kingpin and his family, it’s real life.
Police & CourtsA court has heard that a Central Queensland child sex offender did not comply with strict reporting conditions after he suffered a heart attack.
Police & CourtsA motorist found a partially naked man in his car in the middle of the night after he went to pay fuel at a Rockhampton service station.