Playing up in Toowoomba’s CBD on a night out proves expensive

The Toowoomba teenager was left with a bill of more than $1000 after pleading guilty to both charges plus court costs.

The teenager was caught urinating in Club Lane in Toowoomba’s CBD.

ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour while out on the town in Toowoomba can make for an expensive night as one teenager has discovered.

Ibrar Hussain Raza Hussain had been given a move-on notice by police in Toowoomba’s CBD in the early hours of August 20, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

However, when he was spotted on a Neil St corner about 2.30am by a police patrol, he was handed a ticket for $800 for contravening a police direction within the safenight precinct, police prosecutor Sergeant Tim Hutton told the court.

When that ticket went unpaid he was sent a notice to appear in court, he said.

The 18-year-old had been handed a ticket for $266 about 3.30am, August 9, when he was found urinating in Club Lane in the city’s CBD, Sgt Hutton said.

That went unpaid as well and Sgt Hutton asked for court costs of $108.60 for each matter.

Raza Hussain pleaded guilty to both offences.

Duty solicitor Phil Stainton told the court when his client was handed the move-on notice he had no phone and no money and had been talking with friends trying to make his way home.

Mr Stainton asked the court to fine his client less than the ticketed amounts.

Magistrate Howard Osborne fined Raza Hussain $866 and ordered he pay $217.20 costs of court but ordered the convictions not be recorded.