Repeat stalker, businessman Don Meynink fronts court for brazen gun crimes

A businessman who brazenly ignored police and continued to collect guns while on bail for stalking his second victim has been dragged back to court for his concerning crimes.

Toowoomba stalker Donald Charles Meynink fronts court agian in 2025 for weapon offences.

Regional Queensland businessman and recidivist stalker Don Meynink has again fronted a Toowoomba court for concerning crimes he committed while terrorising a former partner.

When Donald Charles Meynink was convicted of stalking a Darling Downs woman in September, his summary charges relating to an illegal firearm cache were adjourned to October 31.

A rarity occurred on the morning of the well-connected businessman’s sentence, with the Toowoomba Magistrates Court opening early on Friday for Meynink’s proceeding to be heard.

Meynink, who has strong agricultural ties to communities in the Darling Downs, Western Downs, and Northern Territory, was represented by Solicitor Chelsea Saldumbide.

Agriculture businessman Do Meynink, Darling Downs born, pleaded guilty to stalking a Toowoomba woman while on probation for stalking a different woman.

The former owner of a cattle mustering business and manager of a major farming enterprise was sentenced to a 15-month jail term, suspended for three years, after earlier pleading guilty to the stalking charge.

The Toowoomba District Court heard Meynink stalked and persistently harassed the woman for almost four months, not long after he was convicted of stalking a different woman.

Meynink followed and watched his latter victim, while she was at home, in establishments, and at her friend’s home, because he refused to come to terms with the end of their relationship.

Following the 49-year-old’s sentence before the Toowoomba District Court on September 26, Meynink fronted the lower courts and pleaded guilty to possessing four illegal firearms, three detachable magazines, and a variety of ammunition.

On that occasion, Ms Saldumbide told the court the firearm charges from 2023 related to Meynink’s stalking crime, and that police prosecution would be discontinuing five charges following negotiations.

When Donald Charles Meynink pleaded guilty to stalking his former partner.

One of the illegal firearms was picked up by police two months after Meynink was charged with possessing a Winchester semiautomatic rifle, a Hollis and Sons double-barrelled shotgun, and a Savage Sporter 32-20 rifle.

The illegal guns were located when Meynink’s Boodua property was raided, about 33km north of Toowoomba.

Police arrested the Jandowae-raised man, who was on bail for stalking and other firearm charges, and successfully fought against his bail application.

However, four days after a Toowoomba magistrate deemed Meynink posed too great a risk to be released, a second bail application was successful before the Supreme Court.

When he was dealt with for the illegal firearm-related charges on Friday morning, he was fined $1500 and sentenced to a three-month jail term, to be suspended for 12 months.

The suspended jail term will run alongside his suspended jail term for his second stalking offence.

When Judge Denis Lynch KC imposed the community-based order for the stalking, he told Meynink his criminal behaviour caused anxiety and concern “beyond imagination”.

“Repeating your conduct of stalking an earlier partner marks you as someone who needs to be personally deterred from doing something similar in the future,” he said.

“Your conduct was persistent, and it continued despite the intervention of police.

“You’ve demonstrated that you are a risk to others in the community.”